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In Reply to: RE: Exactly...nt posted by EdAInWestOC on June 26, 2012 at 07:14:47
Why would you mess with the VTA while playing a disc that's not thicker than your average LP? To offset the "smiley face" EQ perhaps? Seems to me you would be lessening the bass (good thing, maybe) while increasing the treble even more (assuming you're raising the back of the tonearm).The MoFi "Abbey Road" sounds great to me, as does "Rubber Soul." I'm not as impressed with the MoFi White Album, however.
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If your average disc is 180-200g then Lucky You! My average disc is a a good deal thinner than the 180-200g discs. By raising the VTA a few mm, I think that he is saying that you get a better balance in the response by eliminating extra bass from tail dragging with exotic diamond tips(only conical and elliptical diamonds are sort of immune to VTA).
I found this to be true if the cartridge is sensitive to VTA. I definitely had to do this when I was using a Talisman S.
Dave
...very rig dependent.
With the set-up I am currently using (Denon DL-S1 cartridge with Technics EPA-250 arm) minor changes in VTA provide no audible differences or benefits that I can discern.
However, if I make a large adjustment, in either direction, I can make the the sound worse in a variety of ways.
I am quite happy that it has worked out that way ...because fiddling with VTA all the time to find the sweet spot is not something I want to do.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
I can't hear much of a difference on the Technics. With the Thorens it seems more pronounced (and is a lot more difficult to adjust). I generally set it and forget it.
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