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guy sergeant wrote:

Did you see this piece Paul? http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/vta_e.html I'm not sure what to make of it. We certainly don't seem to suffer with the issues of poor mains to the same degree over here and I found that I can set up my cartridge so that it sounds good enough without having to adjust vta from record to record.  If that were necessary, I think I'd lose interest!

It is probably a good article I did not read it all – from one side I think that I know everything about VTA and from another side I do not need to know more. I have the same attitude – if I need fine-tune VTA for each record then screw the records playing. Some people used the fine-positioning arms and some used different thickness TT mats under the different records.  I do not do it. I set VTA for the sensitive needles very exact but only for average records. If my am had the precise VTA setting in run-time then I down I would use it.

BTW, one important moment that people never talk when they talk about VTA precession. If the arm had silicon dumping (and many of them do) then room temperature affect the viscosity of silicon and offset the needed VTA and even VTF.

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