Cleaning Lady Bent My Stylus Badly (Clearaudio Virtuoso V2 Ebony)

[ChrisAZ]

Yeah, but at least they're bonded.

[ChrisAZ]

Lyra Delos update. I've spent a few more hours fine tuning my tone arm and cartridge setup. I adjusted the VTA by raising the tone arm 2.5 mm then rechecked everything else. Big improvement overall (the bass had been too dominant/heavy previously as the cartridge got some hours on it). Still great bass, but isn't overloading everything else. As they noted in the instructions VTA is critical to this cartridge!

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[Josquin des Prez]

Originally Posted by ChrisAZ

Lyra Delos update. I've spent a few more hours fine tuning my tone arm and cartridge setup. I adjusted the VTA by raising the tone arm 2.5 mm then rechecked everything else. Big improvement overall (the bass had been too dominant/heavy previously as the cartridge got some hours on it). Still great bass, but isn't overloading everything else. As they noted in the instructions VTA is critical to this cartridge!

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That makes sense. Going tail down on VTA can emphasize bass/mid. In my case going a bit tail-down on the Talisman smoothes out the high frequencies and gives more weight and warmth to the lower frequencies. If I have VTA set where the tonearm is perfectly parallel (i.e. neither tail-up or -down) my cartridge is a bit screechy. Fortunately I have the VTA lifter on my tonearm and can adjust it on the fly, even while a record is playing.

[ct005]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

Chris... Sorry to hear this; unfortunately ClearAudio does not repair their cartridges. They will however offer you a trade in credit toward the cartridge of your choice.

Good new for me. My concept was bent by my son, since then I bought an acrylic cover. Trade on is better than nothing.