Rainy week vinyl photo

[TubeDriver]

Rained all week, so I finally got around to dusting off my system. Took some photos since it was all sparkly clean.

[Roscoe Primrose]

Great photo...

So, does it sound better with or without the dust?

Roscoe

[TubeDriver]

A little better defined and more transparent without dust!

Actually, cleaning the rim of my platter and also my turntable belt did improve things a bit.

[David McGown]

Great picture. I like the shadowing on the Zu logo on the front, really nice contrast.

Attached is a picture of my new retipped Denon DL103R in an aluminum body. I have a line contact stylus on a sapphire cantilever. Very nice sounding!

David

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[SoundMods]

If you want an unexpected improvement -- solder the leads to at least the head shell.

My favorite solder is 63/37 eutectic solder. You won't be disappointed.

[Roscoe Primrose]

David - Is that the Jelco arm? Mine just got here yesterday...

Roscoe

[TubeDriver]

Nice pic David. DL-103s are certainly "low riders". I might get SoundSmith to put a ruby or boron cant and line stylus on at some point. How do you like your retip? Do you lose any of that dynamic punch that makes the 103 so fun to listen to?

Great picture. I like the shadowing on the Zu logo on the front, really nice contrast.

Attached is a picture of my new retipped Denon DL103R in an aluminum body. I have a line contact stylus on a sapphire cantilever. Very nice sounding!

David

[David McGown]

Reply to Roscoe. Yes that is the Jelco arm. It is really a fantastic arm for the bucks and works great with ALL my cartridges. I think it is probably one of the most worthwhile audio purchases I have made.

Reply to Pete. No loss of punch, but a big step up in refinement, detail and soundstaging. I think it is a bit less forward sounding, which is an improvement for me when listening to classical music. It really turns it into an outstanding cartridge. I am a very happy camper.

Reply to Walt. Soldering the leads on the headshell is a great idea, I will have to try it out.

[ratbagp]

I am puzzled by the 'soldering the leads to the headshell' suggestion.

Presumably this means attaching the non conducting part of the wires to the headshell. If so why do this?

Or does it mean attaching the conducting parts of the wires to the headshell which confuses me even more.

ray

[Roscoe Primrose]

He means taking the clips which attach to the pins in the headshell and soldering the cartridge leads directly to the pins in the headshell. The more adventurous will solder the leads on the cartridge end as well, but that can be risky...

Roscoe