Hi Guys,
These days I have started experimenting with VTA in my TT. Actually I had this on the fly VTA adjustment from the beginning but never really understood how to use it. Couple of days back I took the plunge and started rotating the dial as the vinyl is being played and it was quite remarkable how the sound changes. Now I have started a new routine of dial in the particular VTA for every record, keep it noted on the cover and use that value for that particular record.
Now I have few basic questions to better my understanding.
I have gone through all the manuals in VPI website and only in two places it talks about VTA adjustment
"Rotating the knob clockwise lowers the arm and rotating it counterclockwise raises it."
"Rule of thumb: Raising VTA lowers bass and increases treble. Lowering VTA increases bass and decreases treble."
From these two statements it is not absolutely clear when the arm is lowered the VTA is increasing or decreasing. However if I go by the marking on the dial then rotating it clockwise decrease the reading and counterclockwise increases the reading. So basically I want to know if we lower the arm VTA is increasing or decreasing?
I tried understanding the geometry of VTA from
Phono CARTRIDGE Mounting, TONEARM Alignment TOOL, TURNTABLE Set-Up, VTA, LTA, Adjustment of BIAS Compensation.
From the picture it seems if we lower the arm at tonearm base then VTA tend to decrease. Am I correct in my understanding?
Thanks.
These days I have started experimenting with VTA in my TT. Actually I had this on the fly VTA adjustment from the beginning but never really understood how to use it. Couple of days back I took the plunge and started rotating the dial as the vinyl is being played and it was quite remarkable how the sound changes. Now I have started a new routine of dial in the particular VTA for every record, keep it noted on the cover and use that value for that particular record.
Now I have few basic questions to better my understanding.
I have gone through all the manuals in VPI website and only in two places it talks about VTA adjustment
"Rotating the knob clockwise lowers the arm and rotating it counterclockwise raises it."
"Rule of thumb: Raising VTA lowers bass and increases treble. Lowering VTA increases bass and decreases treble."
From these two statements it is not absolutely clear when the arm is lowered the VTA is increasing or decreasing. However if I go by the marking on the dial then rotating it clockwise decrease the reading and counterclockwise increases the reading. So basically I want to know if we lower the arm VTA is increasing or decreasing?
I tried understanding the geometry of VTA from
Phono CARTRIDGE Mounting, TONEARM Alignment TOOL, TURNTABLE Set-Up, VTA, LTA, Adjustment of BIAS Compensation.
From the picture it seems if we lower the arm at tonearm base then VTA tend to decrease. Am I correct in my understanding?
Thanks.