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In the Thread: Micro Seiki MAX 282 Questions

Post Subject: MAX-282 Anti-skating and arm tubesPosted by Gibraltar on: 8/14/2010

I recently picked up a MAX-282 tone arm and when setting it up with my test record I'm getting buzzing in the right channel during the bias test tracks. Changing the anti-skating setting has no audible effect. On other arms I have if I set the VTF to zero (so the arm balances horizontally) and turn on the anti-skating the arm swings outwards. On the MAX-282 when I do this it doesn't move at all. Romy, have you ever tried this on your MAX-282? I have a feeling that my arm may be broken, but thought I'd check if you've seen similar behavior before I jump to conclusions.

I'm also wondering about the arm tubes. My arm came with the J-shaped arm tube which I'm using with a headshell and a normal catridge. Have you ever compared the J-shaped tube with the straight tubes in terms of sound quality? Micro suggested that you should use the straight tube unless you had an integrated headshell catridge, but for all I know this could just be because removable headshells went out of fashion.

Thanks,
Gibraltar

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