The all new Orbitrac 2 is available from enlightened retailers, or directly from Allsop(800) 426-4303for $24.99, chump change by audiophile standards. Here's some good news: Allsop's Orbitrac record-cleaning device, which we've been tirelessly lobbying for on your behalf, is officially back in production, though initially in limited quantities, as the company susses out our tweaky corner of the marketplace. At least this pretty much assures that you can leave your balance control set in the middle!
But my experience has been that it most often is preciseor so close that I'm satisfied, and I'm pretty picky. So perhaps I should have made it clear that setting azimuth by the out-of-phase method, like setting it by eye, is not always precise. But having used this method to set azimuth on dozens of cartridges over the past few years, I've found it to be at least a good starting point from which to adjust by ear, and in many casesespecially on the finer cartridgesto be the precise point where the sound is optimized.
Yes, the out-of-phase/summed method gives you equal output in both channels, which does not necessarily optimize azimuth ie, where each channel's generator is at right angles to its respective groove wall. Hansen, is the real world, and those are not options for most people. And it would also be nifty if everyone had the Ortofon test record with modulations only on one groove wall. Get the Shure for $15 and rest aSHUREd you'll come within 0.1 gram of the true VTF compared to the dead-on accurate $649 Wind electronic unit you'll read about a few paragraphs down.Īs for his comments regarding azimuth adjustment, well, yes, it would be wonderful if Audio-Technica would once again manufacture their cartridge analyzer, and it would be wonderful if everyone could afford one should they make them available again. Hansen could have picked up the phone and called Shure or, God forbid, methen he wouldn't have confused and/or panicked readers.
As I haven't noticed any flattened cantilevers, it appears Shure has changed the gauge's beam from a ferrous material to aluminum. I've been reviewing moving-coil cartridge after moving-coil cartridge in Stereophile and using my trusty Shure gauge to set tracking force on all of them. The main beam is made of a ferrous materialthe powerful magnets in a moving-coil cartridge will clamp the gauge to the cartridge, flattening the cantilever in the process." (my italics) unless they've changed it since I purchased mine, the Shure.is virtually unusable for moving-coil cartridges. ( Originally published in Stereophile, January 12th, 1997)īefore beginning my regularly scheduled column, let me respond to Charles Hansen's letter (November 1996, p.16), which JA kindly headlined "Fremer Was Wrong." Hansen writes ".
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