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And for added dramatic effect a monochrome photo too!

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My moody LP12.

DG…

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I got mine from here. Cut up into small strips there’s enough on 1 sheet to last years.

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If you don’t have any luck in your local art shops, try searching for 3M Green Aluminium Oxide Fibre Optic Lapping Film, 30µm Grade. I bought an A4 sheet of it 30 years ago, and it will likely, as they say, see me out.

Thank you, Corry, I’ll have a look.

You with an A4 sheet and me with a tiny scrap, there’s probably a happy medium (if I’m permitted to make excruciating puns so early in the morning).

If you have difficulty finding it locally, I’d be happy to post you some. At my current rate of consumption, I probably have more than I’ll use in one lifetime :laughing:

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Thank you, Corry, that’s kind. I’m away from home, but I’ll have a look in some local shops when I’m back. I shall get in touch if I have no luck locally.

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My absolute best wishes, and hoping that you and your LP12 are soon reunited

Ian

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I would see if you could get a little ifi headphone amp and some halfway decent headphones .

Nothing to do with the social workers

yours in great sympathy

Ian

Thanks for your thoughts, Ian. They really can’t keep me banged up much longer.

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My fluted ebony Woodsong LP12 with Aro arm. The most beautiful arm know.


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I’ve been away from home from longer than I’d wish (not of my doing!), but the ARO’s counterweight there does not look ‘standard’ to me, as I remember my own. Is there some sort of modification going on there? (Or it’s entirely possibly that enforced incarceration is playing tricks on me.!

I think it is a Tiger-Paw sKale. 3rd party counterweight.

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The TP Skale works well with my heavy DV cart . You also do not need the side weight to adjust azimuth.

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Thank you (and to Collywobbles). I could see that there was something different, I just couldn’t work out what. Is that very different in weight from other Dynavector cartridges? (I’ve had a new TKR fitted, but I haven’t heard it yet - I’d be more than slightly peeved, if I got home and discovered that I couldn’t get it to balance!)

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Any news yet?

Fingers crossed

best wishes

Ian

My XV1t is 12 g and the TKR is 10 g so not a big difference. According to Peter Swain, using a heavier counter weight mean you can have the counter weight closer to the pivot point, hence shorter momentum distance and improved SQ. Just getting the cart balance (correct tracking force) is not all…

The Aro is very sensitive to set-up according to me. Also using a heavier anti-skating weight (adding small nut with blue tack) and having the force applied at an angle that decreases the force as the Pu tracks the record makes a difference…as is the how you bend the “wire” that holds the anti-skating thread.

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I have an Aro. You are hurting my brain. Lol.

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The upgraded Aro, one of the very few Tiger Paw Javelins :rofl:
Sounds absolutely stunning.

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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, sweating: “has the tracking force changed?”, “is the azimuth spot on?”

And, you can not change the effective length…

:wink:

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