On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:29:42 -0000, "Keith G"
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"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Keith G
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"Trevor Wilson" wrote


Try your V15III in sub 10oC temps


???

The V15/III carts (and some other Shures IIRC) have a suspension with a
compliance that varies quite markedly with temperature. Thus they work
well
to spec at 20 degC, but if you have a colder room, they may well not!
IIRC
this is because they use a 'rubber' gasket that becomes stiffer as the
temperature falls.


I wuz querying the *temperature* - not the effects of low temperature
(cart suspension, speakers etc) - like, who the hell listens to music at
anything like sub 10 deg C??

**Aussies, of course. We're tougher than Poms.


Thass funny, most of the Aussies in the UK seem to be poofs, from what I've
seen of them....!! ;-)

Perhaps if you're an Aussie poof, you *have* to be tough? :-)

Seriously, though, my 10oC statement was merely to demonstrate a point.
The suspension systems used in most cartridges tends to be temperature
sensitive. The performance of most cartridges will be different at 30oC,
25oC, 20oC, 15oC and 10oC.

Not if you use a lamp..... ;-)

Indeed - a common enough 'tweak' back in the '60s, before central
heating was widespread.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

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