Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

I wuz going through my 'spare kit' with a view to putting a few more
things on ****eBay when I happened across my hitherto neglected AKG P6R
cart with is spherical stylus:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/AKGP6R.jpg


....and I thought 'better give this a ride to see if it's any good - if
not, I'll get rid'! So I rigged it up (by eye only - only saps use
protractors and scales :-) and bunged it on my GL72 'Victoria Sponge'
deck:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/myhifi/VicSponge.jpg


Then put on a disc on which I thought might give it a good workout!
******oso mio!!** Furry animals fell out of the trees outside, a car
swerved off the road, the front door fell out and the guy next door put
his house up for sale! :-))

Here's a 'warts 'n' all' snatch/track/snatch which will show you a) how
*not at all bad* this cart is despite its lowly spherical stylus and b)
why vinylistas larf when people bang on about stuff like CD's 'dynamic
range':

First, miked from my TL speakers:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...01%20(mic).mp3


And then recorded direct to hard disk to show what it *should* sound
like I suppose!!

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...20(direct).mp3


Put your best cans on and wick it up as *large* as you can stand; then
take a grip of summat that bolted to the floor!! (Not for the Quad
Squad!! ;-)

(Tell me he's *not* saying 'Vegetables, Fresh Vegetables'....??)

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

"Keith Gormless Git Pommy Idiot "


( snip pile of sickening, narcissistic drivel)



** Wang King is certainly no Chinese city.





......... Phil

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:37:38 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


I wuz going through my 'spare kit' with a view to putting a few more
things on ****eBay when I happened across my hitherto neglected AKG P6R
cart with is spherical stylus:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/AKGP6R.jpg


...and I thought 'better give this a ride to see if it's any good - if
not, I'll get rid'! So I rigged it up (by eye only - only saps use
protractors and scales :-) and bunged it on my GL72 'Victoria Sponge'
deck:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/myhifi/VicSponge.jpg


Then put on a disc on which I thought might give it a good workout!
******oso mio!!** Furry animals fell out of the trees outside, a car
swerved off the road, the front door fell out and the guy next door put
his house up for sale! :-))

Here's a 'warts 'n' all' snatch/track/snatch which will show you a) how
*not at all bad* this cart is despite its lowly spherical stylus and b)
why vinylistas larf when people bang on about stuff like CD's 'dynamic
range':

First, miked from my TL speakers:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...01%20(mic).mp3


And then recorded direct to hard disk to show what it *should* sound
like I suppose!!

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...20(direct).mp3


Put your best cans on and wick it up as *large* as you can stand; then
take a grip of summat that bolted to the floor!! (Not for the Quad
Squad!! ;-)

(Tell me he's *not* saying 'Vegetables, Fresh Vegetables'....??)



Mic very close to speaker, yes? And not directly in line with the
tweeter. This the first mic recording of yours where the direct
recording has been brighter than the mic recording. So I'm guessing
you used the IMFs and a pair of cardioids, if not the ribbons.

Dynamic range is good for vinyl at about 50dB, but there's still
better than another 40 to go before you would start seeing a CD
sweating.

d

--
Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

Keith G wrote:

I wuz going through my 'spare kit' with a view to putting a few more
things on ****eBay when I happened across my hitherto neglected AKG P6R
cart with is spherical stylus:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/AKGP6R.jpg

...and I thought 'better give this a ride to see if it's any good - if
not, I'll get rid'! So I rigged it up (by eye only - only saps use
protractors and scales :-) and bunged it on my GL72 'Victoria Sponge'
deck:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/myhifi/VicSponge.jpg

Then put on a disc on which I thought might give it a good workout!
******oso mio!!** Furry animals fell out of the trees outside, a car
swerved off the road, the front door fell out and the guy next door put
his house up for sale! :-))

Here's a 'warts 'n' all' snatch/track/snatch which will show you a) how
*not at all bad* this cart is despite its lowly spherical stylus and b)
why vinylistas larf when people bang on about stuff like CD's 'dynamic
range':

Errrr. Let's see now.

You apparently reckon that huge differences between individual cartridges is a
GOOD reason to use vinyl ?

Pure common sense tells us that those huge differences mean that every example
is likely to be highly coloured in fact and finding one you like is akin to a
lottery.


First, miked from my TL speakers:

LOL.

So, we're suppsed to imagine that a 'good sound' is one that survived your dodgy
speakers, your dodgy room acoustics and the influence of an unknown microphone ?

LMAO !

Is the word gullible tattooed on your forehead ?

Graham

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

"Don Pearce" wrote


Mic very close to speaker, yes?


Yes, the usual - about 9 inches, but not the usual mics.


And not directly in line with the
tweeter.


Correct - about in line with the bass units. (It was the *slam* I was
after!)


This the first mic recording of yours where the direct
recording has been brighter than the mic recording. So I'm guessing
you used the IMFs and a pair of cardioids, if not the ribbons.


Yes, the IMFs and my (cardioid) CAD GXL2400s - rebadged OEM Shuaiyin
mics which were cheap and which I use for 'dirty work'; not the ribbon
(also rebadged Shuaiyin) - I only have one of those and I wouldn't
subject it to that sort of behaviour!!



Dynamic range is good for vinyl at about 50dB, but there's still
better than another 40 to go before you would start seeing a CD
sweating.


That's *on paper* - anybody/everybody knows you get much better *phat*
slam in the real world from vinyl!! (This is about *sound* - not
*signal*; you can forget the figures when it comes to hosing the actual
noise about..!! :-)

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

On 15 Oct, 16:30, "Keith G" wrote:
"Don Pearce" wrote

Mic very close to speaker, yes?

Yes, the usual - about 9 inches, but not the usual mics.

And not directly in line with the

tweeter.

Correct - about in line with the bass units. (It was the *slam* I was
after!)

This the first mic recording of yours where the direct

recording has been brighter than the mic recording. So I'm guessing
you used the IMFs and a pair of cardioids, if not the ribbons.

Yes, the IMFs and my (cardioid) CAD GXL2400s - rebadged OEM Shuaiyin
mics which were cheap and which I use for 'dirty work'; not the ribbon
(also rebadged Shuaiyin) - I only have one of those and I wouldn't
subject it to that sort of behaviour!!



Dynamic range is good for vinyl at about 50dB, but there's still
better than another 40 to go before you would start seeing a CD
sweating.

That's *on paper* - anybody/everybody knows you get much better *phat*
slam in the real world from vinyl!! (This is about *sound* - not
*signal*; you can forget the figures when it comes to hosing the actual
noise about..!! :-)

Keith

I'm not sure I know what phat slam is, but I know what small changes
to frequency response sound like.

A few years ago I spent ages optimising the loading of my Shure V15/3
and the flatter the response became (within fractions of a dB,
measured with a test disk) the more it sounded like my CD player with
the same album. Very close in the end. So if your AKG cartridge
sounds very different from a CD player it is probably not very good.

I was never able to get the bass as punchy from the LP though (I think
LPs are quite restricted at low frequencies to avoid mis-tracking) and
of course there was always the crackle and pop in the background.

Regards

Paul

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

"Don Pearce" wrote


Mic very close to speaker, yes? And not directly in line with the
tweeter. This the first mic recording of yours where the direct
recording has been brighter than the mic recording. So I'm guessing
you used the IMFs and a pair of cardioids, if not the ribbons.


OK, here's a 'back to normal' for you - this is the setup (as usual):

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/AKG2A3Fidelios.wmv


.....and here's the last two tracks of Side 1 with the same AKG cart, but
back on my 2A3 SET/Fidelios (or 'normal' as I call it) and with the
Oktavas:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/BackToNormal.mp3


More *spanky* than *phat slam* this time (my preference), but do play it
loud!!

(Feck - even the movie's got *clout*!! :-)

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

wrote



I'm not sure I know what phat slam is, but I know what small changes
to frequency response sound like.

A few years ago I spent ages optimising the loading of my Shure V15/3
and the flatter the response became (within fractions of a dB,
measured with a test disk) the more it sounded like my CD player with
the same album. Very close in the end. So if your AKG cartridge
sounds very different from a CD player it is probably not very good.

I was never able to get the bass as punchy from the LP though (I think
LPs are quite restricted at low frequencies to avoid mis-tracking) and
of course there was always the crackle and pop in the background.



OK, then - what bits of QUAD kit do you have...??

:-)

Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

In article .com,
wrote:


A few years ago I spent ages optimising the loading of my Shure V15/3
and the flatter the response became (within fractions of a dB, measured
with a test disk) the more it sounded like my CD player with the same
album.

Also my experience with the V15 when comparing classical music on the same
LP/CD.

Slainte,

Jim

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Spherical stylus = sound with *balls*..???
 

In article , Keith G
wrote:

"Don Pearce" wrote


Mic very close to speaker, yes?


Yes, the usual - about 9 inches, but not the usual mics.


And not directly in line with the
tweeter.


Correct - about in line with the bass units. (It was the *slam* I was
after!)

This means that what you recorded will probably sound quite unrepresentive
of what the sound is like out in the room.


That's *on paper* - anybody/everybody knows you get much better *phat*
slam in the real world from vinyl!! (This is about *sound* - not
*signal*; you can forget the figures when it comes to hosing the actual
noise about..!! :-)

You can certainly ignore the figures, or be ignorant of them, or have no
idea how to interpret what they mean... I don't think that "everybody"
falls into that category, though, although it may be true of many... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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