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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: USB microscope for setting VTA
Post Subject: Amused to Death: Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/22/2013
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 Stitch wrote:
The Fremer "recommendation" is totally useless when a cartridge designer uses a diamond which is perfect with 90.6°, what is "his" recommendation worth then? Not much.
The unfortunate irony is that “cartridge designer” is kind of spacious definition as we do not have any practical cartridge designers.  There are mass produced cartridges (most of them) that unfortunately have very low standards and that have very frequently diamond not mounted properly on cantilever. This is not a bogus accusation. I spent at my time a LOT of time to observe needle under microscope and I can testify that a perfectly mounted diamond is rather rarity then norm. Then there are hand-made cartridge when a person doe each cartridge individuality. The quality control in there much higher – but any cartridge does sound conspicuously different. So I do not think that it might be any universal rules. The only one rule that I know is to “talk” to your own cartridge and to train own ears to find best setting for it. I am not against what Fremer wrote even I do not know what it was. I however do play analog and I have no intellectual interest to read this writing about the analog playing. So, I think something is wrong ether with writing or with me…. 

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