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    AVID ACUTUS SP TO SP REFERENCE or new Arm or what?

    Hi Simon, don’t get me wrong, with a good quality pressing, I love the overall sound of my set up, it’s just that when I go to my mates he has an incredibly detailed and natural soundstage where you can ‘see’ where the musicians sit /float across the room - I just don’t have anything like that...
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    AVID ACUTUS SP TO SP REFERENCE or new Arm or what?

    A bit late to this thread, but only just came across it. I’ve got the Acutus SP Reference - took it to Conrad for a full service and also had a listen at the difference between my SP Ref PSU and the Mono PSU. Like you I simply can’t get my head around how/why the PSU could make a £10k...
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    Tidal Audio Speakers cables

    Hi Vienna, I noticed you had your Tidal speakers on a platform - wondered what they were and what difference they made? I had wondered about the benefits of speaker isolation - whether or not to replace the tidal feet with Stillpoints or Gaia or use the Townshend platforms. Interested in your...
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    Tidal Audio Speakers cables

    Things of beauty... I’ll run them in for you ;-) My High Fidelity needed run in, but the Argento’s sounded wonderful to me in comparison straight out of the box and just improved from there - they have had the biggest £/improvement after room treatments. Same may be true for the Tidal cables.
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    Tidal Audio Speakers cables

    Wow! Congrats... Not tried them yet! I’d have to fit and listen immediately :-)
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    Tidal Audio Speakers cables

    Slightly old thread, but as I’m new... I’ve got the Preos with the Dac, a pair of Vitus SM-010’s and a pair of Tidal Piano Diacera’s... I’d started with High Fidelity cables and swapped everything out for Argento Flow interconnect and speaker cables (FMR for phono, Flow for Spdif from Mutec USB...
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    Thank you oldvinyl... not heard of splitting the tracking weight like this - I’ll do some more research and try - thank you.
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    Update: I took the Acutus and SME V arm up to Avid (Conrad had very kindly offered to take a look for me). I’d set up everything correctly, but Conrad discovered that the arm was pulling in to the centre when balanced - a fault with the arm (even though it had just had the full service including...
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    Hi Solypsa, that’s one thing I hadn’t thought of! I will check as soon as I get home! Thank you.
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    I have tried all three and neither stopped the issue
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    Hi, I use scales for tracking weight. Speed could be something though as Analog Magik shows the speed fluttering (I don’t have a strobe)
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    Thanks Nemal1 for your response. Tracking weight is as per EMT's spec (2.4gm) I have gone a bit higher to 2.65 to see if that helped but didn't). On the same the process is to set the bias to the same as the tracking weight - I've done that and also experimented with going higher/lower :-(
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    Help please... Avid Acutus SP Reference, SME V and EMT JSD VM

    2019 was a bit of an unplanned hifi upgrade journey - Overall I am very happy with where I've got to with the exception of vinyl playback... The Acutus and SME have gone back to their respective manufacturers for full services and the EMT Cartridge is brand new. Some records play great and...
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