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In Reply to: RE: SoundSmith cartridges riding very low? posted by hvbias on December 18, 2014 at 16:15:25
I hope I will be forgiven for posting at the top of this blog; I very much appreciate all the below posts, even ones (and especially) those that raise concerns. Unlike any other cartridge designer and manufacturer however, I am here and always available when people call - if need any kind of technical assistance. I frankly know of no other cartridge designer you can "call" to speak to.I fully agree that the Soundsmith cartridges appear to look like low riders. My staff has been trained to test each and every cartridge we hand make. I test all the models I personally make, (Strain Gauge, Hyperion, Sussurro, Paua, The Voice, and our five new medium output models.
I have instructed my staff to perform their clearance inspection from the front, NOT from a side view. If you will do this, you will easily see that the views present quite different impressions. While they look to be riding low from the side, a front view with a white background will easily show that there is considerable clearance within the full VTF range for a given model. We test our Medium compliance models (1.6 max) at 1.7 grams as a clearance test. Similar over weighting for other compliance types, ranges and models.
I would appreciate some feedback from those who take a "second look" in this way. I believe that they will easily find that we are not closer to the record surface than many other designs, and in fact, are farther than quite a few.
Peter Ledermann/Chief Engineer/Soundsmith 914 739 2885
Peter@sound-smith.com
Edits: 12/19/14 12/19/14Follow Ups:
Hi Peter, thanks for replying.Here is my old Otello, this was tracking at 1.25 g. I backed off on the tracking force to a hair over 1 g when I had it. This was a medium compliance version.
Like I said, I am huge fan of your magnetic cartridges and would love to own a Hyperion some day!
Edits: 12/20/14
Peter is sending me a new cartridge and will be evaluating my old one. Thank you to Peter and everyone at SoundSmith.
Thank you for posting this picture - PLEASE CALL ME on Monday - I will send you a new production unit immediately. This cartridge is not riding correctly - This clearance is not correct, and I would like to see what happened internally.
Peter Ledermann/Soundsmith
Will call, thanks Peter.
nt
I backed off to 1 gram, it does not ride as low in the photo after that. Never had problems with warps except for really bad dish warps, which would pose an issue to most cartridges.
nt
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