Vinylmasters
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Vinylmasters.... be interested in your opinion here.
On the EVG 4606-DEX???
Vinylmasters.... be interested in your opinion here.
Ok. I gotta try this on my spare L727 cart. First I've heard of it!
On the EVG 4606-DEX???
Here's my list:
-AT 90 without stylus;
-NOS Technics EPC 310;
-Technics EPC 310 without cantilever/stylus (came with my NTM (= New To Me ) SL 10;
-Technics P51 w/ P30 elliptical stylus (NOS); this is the combo I'm using now and I love it.
- x2 Leson PCM with an MC1 (horrible sounding) stylus;
-NOS Shure V15LT with a beautiful new stylus, but cartridge simply doesn't work. Sounds like faint AM radio interference thru speaker cables. On the market for a used body, but folks who are selling seem to think they can buy themselves a new car with the money from the cart.
Hugo65: I very much hope I'm wrong, but your V15 LT sounds like endstage rubber hardening.
Ordered it tonight!You are correct. Apologies...
I have a few, nothing real impressive though.
Cartridges:
AT 3482P
Shure M92E
Sanyo MG29P w/ Pfanstiehl conical & elliptical
Technics P23 w/ EVG conical
Pickering DLE ? (label too worn to read) w/ EVG D71EE
Shure M94LT plastic trimmed in front for more stylus options w/ EVG N104E
Turntables:
Sherwood ST903 belt drive linear tracker
Fisher MT32
Panasonic SL H308
To clarify, the rubber I'm referring to is the little square rubber donut tucked inside the long square-section brass-looking stylus insertion tube. In other words, if some sound is coming out of both channels of your V15 LT body, chances are the problem is in the stylus, and don't ask me how I know. Painful subject. You can check the body for continuity with an ohmmeter, or you can simply buy a suitable cheap generic stylus and flick the diamond. If it makes a sound like fingerprints in both channels, the body is good. It would be heartbreaking to find that the stylus is bad, but it's happened more than once....endstage rubber hardening.
Wualta, the stylus is working. I tucked it into the V15III that's on my TD125 MkII (we really enjoy showing off, don't we?) and it sounded fantastic. I don't know if it's our tropical weather, but dry suspension rubber is as rare as hens' teeth around here BTW, at least to me. The problem is in the body. I didn't have a t4p tonearm around when the cartridge arrived, so I mounted it on a TK24 Dual sled and had the bad news. Next, I tried it on the SMEIIIs, and nothing came out, except that little whizz again. I even tried the Vn45 SAS on it, but nothing happened. In fact, the sound nearly disappeared completely. I thought I had nothing to lose so I opened the cart and sprayed some WD40 in it, especally on the laminated cores, which seems to have made that buzz a hair louder, but this may be only the reflection of my anxiety. Finally, the Sl10 came in and, well, that's a lost cause. Any ideas on this? Anyway, thanks for the puzzle you provided me with: I just got home from a 4-hour drive, most of which I spent trying to figure out what the heck an endstage rubber was!!!To clarify, the rubber I'm referring to is the little square rubber donut tucked inside the long square-section brass-looking stylus insertion tube. In other words, if some sound is coming out of both channels of your V15 LT body, chances are the problem is in the stylus, and don't ask me how I know. Painful subject. You can check the body for continuity with an ohmmeter, or you can simply buy a suitable cheap generic stylus and flick the diamond. If it makes a sound like fingerprints in both channels, the body is good. It would be heartbreaking to find that the stylus is bad, but it's happened more than once.
@Decibel_116 , yeah, a couple of decades ago one of my M91ED lost one channel, the same happened to an old M44 (yeah, I'm a Shure guy, with a few well chosen exceptions in my cart collection) so I know this is not the case with the LT. I'd never seen anything like this issue I'm having with the V15 LT, except what happened with my old Neat Vertex V70, when I installed it on the Dual (a very unusual 1235, a model assembled in Argentina and distributed to all the other South American countries): for the first 2 minutes, it sounded as if the speakers were covered with thick blankets, and then it started to gradually open up and shine, until it fully recovered its sweet tone, which I've always been fond of. folks on the other forum were like "er, d'ya always drink before you start needle-dropping?" when I told them. It was like the circuit was burning in again, which is something many folks believe can happen, while most others are skeptical about. And, yes, a V15LT body has got to pop up somewhere, someday, for a fair price, so I'm not giving up.That's what I was thinking. Usually when these go bad, it's a single channel that goes out.
That was a most enlightening bla bla, Waulta. Thank you!! I'm hoping some knowledgeable and/or skillful AKer will chime in and help me sort this out before I do something stupid, like touching the terminals with a hot solder iron in an attempt to cause the solder to melt and harden up again.If you survived that bla bla, you'll be disappointed to hear that I don't know what's gone wrong with your LT body, although I suspect cold solder joints where the fine wires from the coils connect to the terminal pins. Don't toss the body, because someone here might have a fix or at least a diagnosis, and some have successfully resoldered those fine wires-- me, I'd be tempted to use conductive adhesive.
That, or something like it, may become necessary down the road, and it has been done. But first you should test the internals with an ohmmeter, preferably a modern digital one. If the resistance measurements check out (spec is 1380 ohms) and this project becomes a "thing", you might want to start a new thread specific to the repair.I'm hoping some knowledgeable and/or skillful AKer will chime in and help me sort this out before I do something stupid, like touching the terminals with a hot solder iron in an attempt to cause the solder to melt and harden up again.
I use:
ADC PSX 40
Pickering XL-33U DTL- 2S
Shure HE-150
AT VS215EP with132 EP
Shure 92E
LP Gear VSer Shibata
AT92E
Empire 290 LT
Tom,Which are your favorites, revox?