"dave weil" wrote in message

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:59:31 GMT, (Stewart
Pinkerton) wrote:

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 17:22:38 GMT, David Goodwin
wrote:

On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 05:30:23 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

Have I missed something? I can't find out what turntable you have.

Denon DP-7J.

I can't find any references to this turntable with google searching. What am
I missing?

Big could actually be any. The stylus should be perfectly clean.

I don't see anything, in any case...

Good.

That would be mistracking. When I listened to your samples I
noticed that the problem seems to be far worse in the right
channel.

I've noticed that too. Why *is* that?

It can be inherent in the media under some conditions, but it is also
indictative of excess friction in the arm, misadjusted anti-skating, and
too-low tracking force.

My old stylus had a similar
problem (its right channel was distorted) and that's why I replaced
it...could part of this have carried over thanks to tracking weight
errors?

Could be, but see other related problems I just mentioned.

Sounds like the anti-skating force is badly wrong.

A possible explanation.

I wouldn't be too self-conscious about trying various adjustments to your
tone arm. That's one reason why vinyl was scrapped by 99+% of everybody - it
was a steady maintenance headache. Adjustments like these can get put out of
shape by shipping, for example.

Excessive treble distortion at the inner grooves is, regrettably,
only be expected with vinyl.

Since vinyl the only format with "grooves", I would expect this to be
a true statement.

It's an absolute certainty that LPs have inherent problems with inner groove
distortion, but it's not clear that LPs are the only format with grooves.

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,14571,00.asp

However, there's not much point to such a statement, as stated.

Wow, you really ARE in denial about the technical failings of vinyl, aren't
you Weil?

LOL!