Re: [ARSCLIST] Mostly for laughs

[phillip holmes <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, and I've never understood why you HAVE to track so heavy on those 
old 78s.  Big, lazy grooves.  Nothing that even approaches high 
frequencies (12k?).  78rpm just stretches out all the difficult stuff so 
nicely (compared to the inner grooves of a stereo microgroove).  Also, 
they aren't know to have huge transients (bass drum whacks).  It always 
seemed like tracing a microgroove was way more difficult.

David Lennick wrote:
> Don't know the weight, but as it turns out, this stylus is hardly a dud..I was using too
> light a tracking force on it!
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> dl
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> phillip holmes wrote:
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> > How many grams is five cents?  I'm surprised that Expert made a dud.
> > They have two cartridges of mine being rebuilt.
> > Phillip
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> > David Lennick wrote:
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> > > "From: "phillip holmes" <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> > > > > Absolutely.  And I totally agree that actually building a listening room
> > > > > can be prohibitively expensive.  Improvements are easily made with small
> > > > > adjustments.  Too many people find some formula to use, set their
> > > > > listening room up and never listen to the results.  I've had epiphanies
> > > > > from moving the speakers a few inches.
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> > > Hey..I had an epiphany that cost me five cents. A 2.0 mil Truncated Elliptical
> > > stylus from Expert that I got a couple of years ago had never given me joy..loose
> > > fit, too much chatter, variable results, but as a last resort I tried it this week
> > > on a difficult disc, and added a five cent piece to the tone arm (the Stanton
> > > styli won't take that much extra weight). It played gorgeously. I ended up
> > > re-doing two projects this weekend because of the improvement.
> > >
> > > dl
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