MD wrote:

The purpose of my post was not to incite an anti-TT discussion.
Especially since I prefer analog over digital

There's quite a few people whose interest in analogue is limited to
bashing it.
Personally, I look at it this way... I've hundreds of albums and CDs. I
want them both to sound great.

I recently replaced my cart on TT (a Mitusbishi LT-30, its a linear
tracker). And I was going through the Hi-Fi News Test record and
found that this album has a blank spot between each track.... no
groove. So since I put my new cart on... my arm refuses to proceeed
to the next track.... in fact if I set the needle down before the track
it will slide back to the end of the preceding track.

Note.. there is no antiskating on this arm.... So I did a careful
channel check and all seems fine.... but the fact the arm tends to move
right would indicate the stylus overhand is a bit short. I double
checked the setup using the supplied overhang gauge and it seems right
on. I wonder if this phenom could be used to set the overhang more
precisely than the gauge allows. Seems like if I had the stylus dead
on so the contact point of the record was moving directly away from the
base...there'd be no movement of the arm left or right.
Anybody run into this and used real blank (not an unmodulated groove)
to set overhang?

ScottW