I was tickled by the possibility that there was another Miguel with a Kondo Ongaku and AG Mezzo’s!!! I am one of those Miguels:
http://instagram.com/ongakumeansmusic
But I see this is Ultimate’s setup. Beautiful.
I DEFINITELY want to know how Ongaku and iTron compare!!! Thank you.
If your pivot-spindle and overhang are correct, you only need to line up to one null point and the other one will be correct, in principle. It is useful to line up to both since “lining up” is prone to error.
Interesting separation of tracking error and zenith misalignment. I sort of blend them together because at the end of the day it is the cartridge angle and the “fix” for both (in terms of angle) is the same: rotate the cartridge to minimize distortion. But I get your point.
Barring the use of...
At the null points, the zenith error will be zero (assuming you used Wally Tools protractor to compensate for the stylus’s slight misalignment). As such, AT THE NULL POINTS (there are only two) the IMD will be the lowest possible your system can have. So it’s really a question of where you want...
Zenith error - that is how much the stylus contact edges are not perpendicular to the groove - affects distortion. The IMD (Inter Modulation Distortion) additionally increases (approximately) as 1/r. What you really want to minimize is IMD, that is:
IMD ~= Zenith Error / r
The various...
In my experience it is useful to find good alignment targets but that is only the starting point. Most cartridge’s styli are not exactly square with the cantilever and/or body, and for this reason, once you have done a good alignment you need to fine-tune zenith (and azimuth) to get the best...
You can see the Lofgren null points (as r- and r+) in this post on this thread:
https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/baerwald-lofgrenb-stevenson-the-math-behind-alignment-conventions.37508/post-909686
To reiterate as succinctly as possible:
The formula for zenith error requires only three quantities: effective length, overhang, and offset angle.
First way to use this formula: Given these three geometrical parameters, it tells you exactly what the zenith error is everywhere and in particular...
I have read the paper and done the equations. The very first formula in this paper is exactly the one I posted initially in this thread. Nothing here is in any contradiction to what I stated.
The point here is: given null points and effective length you can determine everything else. And that...
Indeed, but clearly getting zenith as good as possible is improving the sound. You will have other problems like wow&flutter from a non-centered whole etc, for sure. It's a matter of improving what we can to get as close as possible to the best sound we can get with the setup.
Agreed. I would...