Objective ways to evaluate turntable performance

[Thad E Ginathom]

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Some important measurements:

We all know Dr.Bass's dedication to achieving the best possible music playback from his equipment, but he told me about Singapore TT enthusiasts who take their measurements to three decimal places, and have equipment to do so.

 

[entsurgeon]

^^ the idea is how much of it is theoretical and how much is audible? if joe weider makes best dumbbells in the world would it mean you can lift more lbs of weight if you switch to a weider dumb bell??

 

[jls001]

We all know Dr.Bass's dedication to achieving the best possible music playback from his equipment, but he told me about Singapore TT enthusiasts who take their measurements to three decimal places, and have equipment to do so.

One should learn to sit back and enjoy the music. Currently my tonearm stares at me with a cockeyed stare because the azimuth is all wrong. It is visible in plain sight. But it is sounding just right. The arm lift refuses to work when the cartridge is somewhere near the inner grooves, but it is sounding right so I have held back from rectifying it. I have not used the strobe disc to check the speed in ages as I don't hear anything wrong with the speed.

@Dr Bass: what do these chummies measure to the third digit? Please to enlighten

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Well, I was paraphrasing, so maybe it was thousandths --- maybe it was nanometers! :lol:

The only trouble with not doing basic checks on this sort of thing regularly is that things slip at an undetected rate. My most recent (and rather sad) example of this is my ears: I hadn't taken a hearing test for a couple of years, was horrified to find out how it has deteriorated, and (by messing with a bit of EQ on the PC) at how much I am no longer hearing.

But I get what you're really saying --- which is that it all about listening to music, and all the rest is time spent not listening to music.

 

[jls001]

One should learn to sit back and enjoy the music. Currently my tonearm stares at me with a cockeyed stare because the azimuth is all wrong.

I changed my mindhyeah:

I corrected the skewed azimuth and wrong VTA last night.

 

[Hiten]

I changed my mindhyeah:

:clapping:
For a moment you had me worried
Regards

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