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Post Subject: Setting Up and Maintaining Set-upPosted by Paul S on: 5/22/2014
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It seems like most audio "auditioning" is of the hopeful sort, where we can in the best cases "hear something" that attracts us, and we can perhaps use experience to try to "intuit" whether we might be able to "extract" and use the particular component in our own system. If nothing else, the cartridge and arm/cartridge interface make "listening to a turntable" a pretty dicey proposition; not to mention everything else about the system, including LPs and chosen music. One oft-overlooked aspect of TT set up and use is the ease and likelihood of repeating a given performance. IMO, the "best" TTs are easy to use and they are reasonably constant and reliable, in terms of performance. Take a heavy platter on a smooth, quiet bearing and drive it with a reliable, just-adequate motor, from a short, "just-acceptable" belt... what more do you need? Where's the mystery? I happen to use vacuum hold down, which in this case has NEVER failed me or presented ANY problem for me, or I would 86 it. But I would just as soon use a rim weight, come to that. It is amusing to see and hear people going ga-ga over a TT. Perhaps this is because finding AND EXPLOITING a good one is never a gimmie, no matter the price. But we need to keep our collective wits about us here; whatever else a decent TT is or isn't, it ain't rocket science. Maybe for the big spenders it just gets down to the idea of plug-and-play SOTA. But if this is the case, any end user might still be disappointed to learn that no results-driven TT/arm/cartridge/etc. set-up is plug-and-play; they ALL need honing, lapping and "bedding" in a particular system, and they all need periodic adjustments of one sort or another. And it may be that no one else can do this for you, IF you want the full potential of that "SOTA" TT.
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