chebby said:
Laugh . . . I thought about that a little, the interface was 4 sheets of kitchen towel . . . I had in mind using felt, sort of snooker table covering. No good thinking about it. I have stock, used it before, cut the shape out, it cant make any differance, bodge stage is the time to prove the point . . . ?
We were listening to the old favourit, 'Jazz at the PawnShop', I'm lucky to have an 'Atr Mastercut' version as well as the original double album. Lifted the stylus, faffed around and replaced the interfaces, droped the stylus . . . remarkable, the plucked base became so real, all instruments assumed a more solid position in the soundstage, everything simply became more real. When Hazel makes her own unprompted observations, you know you are on the right track.
I have earlier today been rebalancing the arm . . . more checking it, not done so for a month or two, I had already established the new setup was allowing a change in stylus force of 0.01 or less to be audible, (its actualy less, my digital ballance mesures to 3 points, but I cant believe it either) up to now I have always worked on 0.02 as the audible limit. I'm listening as I type, 'big earphones' style, the sharp, rich sound is amazing, 'drum solo', wow!!! Now changed over to an original copy of Nat King Cole, 'Love is the Thing', again the natural richness of sound is beautiful. It was this record not sounding right earlier that promted the stylus check.
So may be we have stumbled on 'Black Malted Milk', the felt happens to be black . . .
My original description was; authority and chest lumping, base, base is still chest thumping but slightly cleaner, the authrity is 'with knobs on' . . . I can only think what I have done is alowing the cartridge and arm to dig deep working together. Says a lot for the rest of the system that it reacts so well to be able to persent this information. So much more to come from the amps and speakers and oh yes, those cheap cables . . . I have always believed in the importance of setting up the source right.
CJSF
PS Tom Waits now on, so tight, that authrity again, the base plays rich and tunefull 'Diamonds on the Windshield' . . . . you would not believe this is a 'full valve set up'. M/C cartridge, MC step up transformer, valve phono stage playing in to a intigrated amp, set up in 20 watt Triode mode, 8 meters of K20 speaker cable to original PMC LB1 monitors. Pick the bones out of that?
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