Gyro Tweaks

[andrew ivimey]

Agreed, agreed, agreed, but when I find an arm / cartridge does track the HiFiNews test LP I stil worry,'surely it can't be right! surely itis carving out all sorts of new grooves in my precious plastic'

so I finally (yes, finally) bought some scales. - what was I tracking at? -

Well, the huge fun and joy I have had with Hadcock meant that is where I should start. I set the 'force' at what I thought was 3 grams. (Denon 103) The cantilver did not sink andnor did the arm seem ready to skate all over the place. HiiFiNewsLP says fine and then I tried the scales... 3 grams.

Okay I was lucky.

wonder if I can guess 1 gram (e.g. shure v15)

[Shane]

Which test record do you prefer? I'm using HFS69, which I suspect is pretty undemanding since my home-brew unipivot/Denon 304 sails through it with no bias atall.

[andrew ivimey]

HFS75
HFN001

& a lovely old American lp; Record Review Test Record with quite a few sweep frequencies and long single tones that can rather nicely show up how stable you think the (direct drive) turntable is.

[IslandPink]

Andrew

I recently found my 103 tracks better at 2.2 g than at 2.5 g - sounds better on the inner tracks .
..and less likely to wear out the music .

Mark