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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: USB microscope for setting VTA

Post Subject: Hm, I do not think so.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/21/2013

Hmmm. I need to admit that I did not read the article above and I did not familiar myself with the author’s reasons as I stubbornly consider Fremer to be an idiot. However, purely hypothetically thinking on the subject I wonder why the presence of microscope would make the setting of VTA easier. I personally do not think so.

VTA is not some kind of definitively-fixed angle that needs to be set. It is rather a very delicate balance between the angle, specific cartridge, type of tip, wearing of needle, VTF, room temperature in some cases, cartridge loading, the thickness of record and a few other parameters. The bigger question I would ask: why you have difficulty to set up VTA by ears but feel that do it by eyes is easier?

Do you hear the sonic difference of different VTA? If you do not then you have other then wrong VTA problems. If you do then how you differentiate less say the tubby bass from too low VTA from the tubby bass from too low loading. They are of cause different but no microscope would help you to recognize this difference, of course it is in my view. I think microscope is fine to observe a long impact from wrong antiscatting but serve no purpose in VTA battle.

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