The VPI Turntable Thread

[Mather]

listening to great music

WHO THE HELL HAS TIME FOR THAT

 

[Ghost]

Sit back relax have a tipple and enjoy your music?

Idek why I’m in this thread but I enjoy today’s discovery that @Joe Mac just wanders from thread to thread telling stressed out audiophiles to have a drink. You’re a good man Joe Mac

 

[OMC]

I get this, but the weight is on one end and the cartridge and the screws are on the other.
The pivot point is in between those two spots.

So the weight is causing inertia to happen in one direction - let's say the outside groove. The weighted screws are somewhat offsetting that by causing inertia in the other direction - let's say the inside groove. The fulcrum of the pivot point would of course make one inertia greater than the other. Which is probably why the weights are close to the pivot point in general.

Umm, the weight on either end of the tonearm is going in the same direction at any given moment just on the other half of a circle. There is no counterbalancing going on in the horizontal just the vertical motion.

 

[Joe Mac]

Idek why I’m in this thread but I enjoy today’s discovery that @Joe Mac just wanders from thread to thread telling stressed out audiophiles to have a drink. You’re a good man Joe Mac

I come from a long line of drinkers and ebablers

 

[Joe Mac]

WHO THE HELL HAS TIME FOR THAT

Sorry sorry, I mean compare multiple different pressings of the same album of beautifully recorded mediocre music….

 

[Mather]

Idek why I’m in this thread but I enjoy today’s discovery that @Joe Mac just wanders from thread to thread telling stressed out audiophiles to have a drink. You’re a good man Joe Mac

He's like David Carradine in Kung Fu The Legend Continues, except instead of solving problems with mad Kung Fu skills he just walks into the room and hands you a bottle of whiskey.

 

[SnowmaNick]

He's like David Carradine in Kung Fu The Legend Continues, except instead of solving problems with mad Kung Fu skills he just walks into the room and hands you a bottle of whiskey.

Sounds like a way better show.

 

[Joe Mac]

He's like David Carradine in Kung Fu The Legend Continues, except instead of solving problems with mad Kung Fu skills he just walks into the room and hands you a bottle of whiskey.

In my younger days I did once arrive at a party drunk and wander round trying to share my bottle of whiskey with everyone there…

 

[OMC]

In my younger days I did once arrive at a party drunk and wander round trying to share my bottle of whiskey with everyone there…

Now you just stay at home and keep the bottle for yourself?

 

[Joe Mac]

Now you just stay at home and keep the bottle for yourself?

That’s what happens when you’re 40 rather than 22!

 

[Mather]

He's like David Carradine in Kung Fu The Legend Continues, except instead of solving problems with mad Kung Fu skills he just walks into the room and hands you a bottle of whiskey.

Or for those Canadians in the audience, he's like The Littlest Hobo, except instead of a helpful German Shepard he's a drunk Irish Setter.

 

[Mather]

How much you guys figure a finger lift weighs?

 

[Angsty]

How much you guys figure a finger lift weighs?

Put it on your VTF scale. I’d ballpark 1.5 g.

 

[Mather]

Put it on your VTF scale. I’d ballpark 1.5 g.

In order to do that, it would require me to remove the cart that I just spent 7000 hours aligning. NO DICE KEMOSABÉ

 

[Nee Lewman]

In order to do that, it would require me to remove the cart that I just spent 7000 hours aligning. NO DICE KEMOSABÉ

Call the manufacturer.

 

[SnowmaNick]

In order to do that, it would require me to remove the cart that I just spent 7000 hours aligning. NO DICE KEMOSABÉ

Buy another one, and weigh that one. You get to spend money and answer your question.

 

[OMC]

In order to do that, it would require me to remove the cart that I just spent 7000 hours aligning. NO DICE KEMOSABÉ

Since it’s mounted upside down it has negative weight.

 

[Mather]

Since it’s mounted upside down it has negative weight.

OMG I FIXED IT YOU ANIMALS

 

[Nee Lewman]

OMG I FIXED IT YOU ANIMALS

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YOU SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT TO WEIGH WHEN YOU FIXED IT!

 

[Nee Lewman]

What you need to do, is put index cards on either side. unscrew the thing and then weigh it. the index cards will help you put it back on with out screwing it up..... (THIS WILL DEFINITELY NOT WORK BUT DO IT ANYHOW)