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Problems with jazz vinyl, new and used...

Posted by carvinman on May 28, 2012 at 13:26:36:

Hi,
I've got a growing collection of jazz vinyl, around 70+ albums. Heres the problem- I'm getting more and more frustrated with the fact that far too high a percentage (in my opinon) of the jazz vinyl I buy, new or old, has some kind of sonic flaw, usually distortion on the horns. I'd say about 1/3 to 1/2 of the jazz LPs have distortion that drives me nuts. I don't have this problem with anywhere near as many pop/ rock LPs-maybe 10% or less of those, and I've got close to 200 pop/rock/etc. LPs.
My turntable and cartridge is nothing great- a Music Hall MMF 2.2 and an Ortofon 2m red. I have it set up with a Geodisc and the Analogue Productions test LP I use shows no significant flaws in the setup. I have fooled around with VTA, VTF, Azimuth, and antiskate.

During a test on some unimportant LPs, one thing I did notice is that I lost most of this distrortion when I skewed the VTA (or is it azimuth?) of the arm to the point where the needle was visually angled in toward the center of the turntable. However, I changed this knowing that it cant be good for the records.

What am I doing wrong? LP is supposed to be better than CD right? Not in my current setup...