The Opus is waking up
Joey_V
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The Airtight opus is finally here and it’s waking up…
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Finally… I’m getting there
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Just from memory of carts I heard
Opus is #1
Atlas is #2
Koetsu Coralstone mono #3
Etna is #4
Ds Audio Master 3 is #4
Koetsu Urushi stereo #5
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Good to know.
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Joey, what are the lights from? At first I thought it was background lighting, but it looks like a leveling beam in other photos?I disabled signatures.
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Joey, what are the lights from? At first I thought it was background lighting, but it looks like a leveling beam in other photos?
Laser
I am leveling it and checking for VTA on the fatboy gimbal
I had it a little too low when Jeff the dealer came, but I missed some of the air. Now it’s at near neutral vta
Then I had to adjust vtf a little
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Joey, what are the lights from? At first I thought it was background lighting, but it looks like a leveling beam in other photos?
Laser
I am leveling it and checking for VTA on the fatboy gimbal
I had it a little too low when Jeff the dealer came, but I missed some of the air. Now it’s at near neutral vta
Then I had to adjust vtf a little
I've also seen people mention use of laser pointers and levels for speakers as well, but last time I looked into this, I couldn't really find anything on how to actually do it.
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I’ll take a pic of how I’m setting it up
It’s pretty cool. Self leveling laser.
Basically level out the tonearm while on the record so you can get the angle as close to 92 or whatever they say is ideal
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Yeah, definitely innerested to learn more about the laser you're using. I didn't even level my TT last time I moved my system stuff.
You're talking about VTA? I forget what I read about this. Something like squat the rear and you get more bass, or something?I disabled signatures. -
Something like squat the rear and you get more bass, or something?
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Adjusting VTA can tilt the frequency response a little. Tail down tilts highs down and lows up, and tail up tilts lows down and highs up, with a little more detail retrieval IME."This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
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Yeah, definitely innerested to learn more about the laser you're using. I didn't even level my TT last time I moved my system stuff.
You're talking about VTA? I forget what I read about this. Something like squat the rear and you get more bass, or something?
Yes
Exactly
Squat the rear you get more bass
Tilt it up and you get more treble
I’m probably at 10 hours on the opus and it is more complete than the Etna which kinda boggles my mind
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