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Pioneer PL-L1000A Thread
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A nice little box was delivered today.
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James
,James
cason, this is where I get to say Thank You again for the extra headshell.
I got the new cart mounted on it with no great problems. Except of course that I totally forgot to buy some new leads, so I borrowed them from the original setup.
Of course I had totally forgotten that the batteries for my tracking weight scale are dead. I could have ordered 10 LR43/AG12 from Amazon for €3 with free delivery, but would have had to wait until at least the end of the week.
So I painfully laid out €7 for 2 batteries at the local big box store. They are only a 5 minute walk from my apartment so I suppose that one could say that the delivery was also free in this case.
The total height looks very very close to the Adcom cart so for the moment I have not checked the tonearm sled height for this first test. Nominal tracking weight is 2gm. I managed to get it set at 2.02gm and called it good.
In about 30 minutes I will try it out for the first time.
,
James
I got the new cart mounted on it with no great problems. Except of course that I totally forgot to buy some new leads, so I borrowed them from the original setup.
Of course I had totally forgotten that the batteries for my tracking weight scale are dead. I could have ordered 10 LR43/AG12 from Amazon for €3 with free delivery, but would have had to wait until at least the end of the week.
So I painfully laid out €7 for 2 batteries at the local big box store. They are only a 5 minute walk from my apartment so I suppose that one could say that the delivery was also free in this case.
The total height looks very very close to the Adcom cart so for the moment I have not checked the tonearm sled height for this first test. Nominal tracking weight is 2gm. I managed to get it set at 2.02gm and called it good.
In about 30 minutes I will try it out for the first time.
,James
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So, you have installed the cartridge with almost perfect overhang (which should be equal to zero, but under the recomended tracking force, not in the free air). The shell is supposed to guarantee you the correct values of the pitch and roll angles (both equal to zero too).
How do you plan to adjust it for the yaw angle? The slots in the shell do not guarantee anything in this regard.
The nominal tracking force is 2gm (1.8gm - 2.2gm). The tracking force was set to 2.02gm using a digital scale, not in free air.
The headshell width measures 18.7mm with my Mititoyo dial calipers. The cartridge width is 16.8mm. I used the calipers to set my sliding square to 0.95mm and aligned the cart with the headshell with the square.
The cartridge is exactly aligned along the headshell centerline and exactly centered on the headshell.
I still don't have many LP's here. As soon as it warms up enough to put my table saw on the balcony I will start cutting wood for 2 record cabinets so that I can bring all of the records over from my son's place.
In the meantime that Loggins and Messina LP is a good test disk. With the old Adcom cart, comparing the half-speed master LP with a SACD in listening tests the SACD won, with better detail and better overall sound quality.
Listening last night the LP sounded a bit harsh, but there is a break in time to be considered and I didn't expect perfection at the start. Nonetheless there is a world of difference with the AT. A much more detailed, cleaner sound. Soundstage is great, all in all a very engaging sound that got me really excited. The SACD no longer wins.
I have read about a good 40 hours for break in with this cart but it was already sounding better by the time it finished the second side of the LP. Next up was Yes, "Fragile". This is an older copy, I can't begin to remember if I bought it new or used. It has some light ticks and pops but not too bad. Sounded very nice musically, although I am not as interested in this type of music as I used to be 40 years ago.
I am not a huge Beattles fan but do have a number of their albums and one that my son brought over was a MFSL copy of Abby Road, so I will be trying that out tonight.
All in all a good start and I am very happy with this cartridge.
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James
In the meantime that Loggins and Messina LP is a good test disk. With the old Adcom cart, comparing the half-speed master LP with a SACD in listening tests the SACD won, with better detail and better overall sound quality.
Listening last night the LP sounded a bit harsh, but there is a break in time to be considered and I didn't expect perfection at the start. Nonetheless there is a world of difference with the AT. A much more detailed, cleaner sound. Soundstage is great, all in all a very engaging sound that got me really excited. The SACD no longer wins.
I have read about a good 40 hours for break in with this cart but it was already sounding better by the time it finished the second side of the LP. Next up was Yes, "Fragile". This is an older copy, I can't begin to remember if I bought it new or used. It has some light ticks and pops but not too bad. Sounded very nice musically, although I am not as interested in this type of music as I used to be 40 years ago.
I am not a huge Beattles fan but do have a number of their albums and one that my son brought over was a MFSL copy of Abby Road, so I will be trying that out tonight.
All in all a good start and I am very happy with this cartridge.
,James
When I first got this TT I was at Goodwill one day looking through the used LP's and somewhere along the way I spotted this silk scarf and bought it for $0.50. The dustcover has been covered with this scarf almost from day one whenever it is not being used. The main reason that the dustcover is almost scratch free after over 40 years.
But the scarf has gotten old, tattered and frayed and stained over time and I think that it is time to find a new one.
But the scarf has gotten old, tattered and frayed and stained over time and I think that it is time to find a new one.
The sound is indeed very decent. Big smile decent. I am very curious as to how it improves with break in.
I was looking at the photo of the cartridge in the shell sitting in the overhang adjustment tool. This one.
The needle tip is aligned with the target rib of the tool. But the cantilever is in the free air. When it is loaded (by the VTF) it turns in its' elastomer and its' horizontal projection gets longer, i.e. under the VTF the overhang will be larger.
The whole idea of the tangential tonearm is to drive the cartridge exactly in perpendicular to the playing radius. If the overhang (i.e. the tonearm effective length) is not placing the needle on the radius - there will be an angle error (yaw angle). Yes, this error will be way less than on a pivited tonearm, but still it should be eliminated completely, This error elimination is possible with tangentials - unlike the pivoted tonearms that are incapable of that by design.
My son stopped by and brought me something nice.
Supertramp, Crime of the century.
Supertramp, Crime of the century.
Went for a walk with Wife just now and when we got back Amazon had left something by the door.
Wife looked at me a bit funny when I pulled this out, put it over my head and asked her how I look.
I think that the old silk scarf will now go into retirement.
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James
Wife looked at me a bit funny when I pulled this out, put it over my head and asked her how I look.
I think that the old silk scarf will now go into retirement.
,James
I just went to Amazon and looked at women's silk scarves until I found one that I liked.Tea House of the August Moon
Something calm and quiet.
I have not been using it very much because I only have a few LP's here right now. The weather is supposed to be getting better and I will bring the table saw up from the cellar and start cutting wood on the balcony soon.
I would have to take apart my table to give you an exact measurement of that hole, and I am sorry to say that I am not prepared to do that right now.
However I do have a spare set of the PEB-102 and I just now measured them and they average about 27mm in diameter. I recall them being a fairly tight fit in the hole so we could guess at 27 to 28mm for the hole. I hope that helps.
James