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Re: VPI Classic 1 Turnable - look what the cat dragged in.
« Reply #70 on: August 23, 2015, 09:24:07 PM »

That's the whole point of it! Impermanence. Rather than run away from it, embrace it. There's sweetness in knowing that all those records you love won't last. Really not any different from your friends, your family, etc.

Thank god it is different: I would hate to have a boxful of old friends and deceased family in the attic!   :-DD

I have some classical stuff going back to my teens that was played with blunt styli/ceramic cartidge on a mono gramophone. I'd never actually chuck it out. I have some rock going back 40 years, and other stuff bought or re-bought later. It's all accessible with a pair of steps, and the deck (a modest thing) is connected --- but seldom used. I keep meaning to take it for removal of 25 years of cat fur from the mechanics. I will do. One day.


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Re: VPI Classic 1 Turnable - look what the cat dragged in.
« Reply #71 on: August 23, 2015, 09:25:07 PM »

Ok vinyl gurus, don't mean to hijack this thread but just want to ask a quick question about an issue I've got that's made me stop listening to my TT.

Got a second hand Technics a few years ago, and the stylus was shot so ordered an AT one from Amazon, couple of hundred bucks. Since then I've always had a channel imbalance which I suspect is due to a fault in the stylus itself - I've swapped stylus, swapped LR, swapped preamps, etc. I've tried realigning the stylus to no end with no improvement (as that's what my googling turns up as the main fix to the problem).

Are there any other checks I can do? I'm thinking of doing a resistance check from RCAs to headshell pins (loose internal wiring maybe?). Or should I just bite the bullet and get another stylus, sigh...

My money is on the wiring or more specifically the solder joints between the arm and the RCA's out the back.  Replacing is usually not that hard, you maybe even just need a reflow.  Depending on the Technics model it may be attached to a PCB.  You can look at KAB USA for genuine parts.  Best to have a friend or a shop provide a donor technics table to slap your headshell and cart onto to provide a peace of mind about your modern cart.  These old tables are old after all.

If it makes you feel any better about the madness of alignment methods, based on what I understand any alignment method has a margin of tracking error and only a single point at which tracking is perfect so no method is ever truly going to be perfect; even if you are not properly aligned to any of the methods.
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Re: VPI Classic 1 Turnable - look what the cat dragged in.
« Reply #72 on: August 24, 2015, 07:38:29 AM »

Thanks for the tips all - I'll give those recommendations a try. I hope it isn't the cart, really do - cost me 200+ bucks :/

Edit: Anax, I got the AT440MLA cart. And I've never used the TT with any other cart before - threw out the original one when I got the TT, it was messed up.
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