SRA and the search for holy grail otherwise known as 92°!

[karma67]

Red bull gives you wings? Don't get in a flap mate. Ok too many Christmas cracker jokes. Maybe some vodka with the red bull but don't over do it, I was working away and me and a mate went clubbing, jugs of red bull and vodka at £18 a jug....was a while back, worst hangover ever.

Sounds awful,the thought of a hangover these days is enough to stop me drinking in the first place,I used to drink 2 cans of red bull a day plus coffee till I had palpitations and trouble breathing, after blood tests the dr told me I had a high potassium level and to stop the red bull etc,I have and sugar and felt great after 4 days, I was having a cheeky can just to remind myself just how bad it is pmsl!!!

[struth]

dunno how folk can drink that stuff. Find it revolting tbh. Real coffee on other hand is acceptable. good vodka by itself is good too, but it has to be really good these days

[alcarmichael]

Would love to have a go at this. It doesn't appear though that the scope used here is compatible with a Mac. Can anyone recommend a similar scope which is indeed Mac compatible?

[Cycleallday]

Would love to have a go at this. It doesn't appear though that the scope used here is compatible with a Mac. Can anyone recommend a similar scope which is indeed Mac compatible?

I mentioned in an earlier post that in my experience these so called USB microscopes are really just webcams and are seen by the operating systems I use as pnp USB devices.

I knew the one I have (which looks just like the one used here and like most of the ones for sale on eBay at around £10) works on Windows with the (supplied) so called 'driver' and with Linux without any driver.

Well in response to your question I just plugged it into my MacBook Pro and it works there as well with no drivers or system configuration needed.

All I did on the Mac was to select the standard OSx PhotoBooth program, select Camera from the top program bar options bar then select 'USB camera' instead of the Built-in iSight camera - Bingo it works

On Windows the supplied driver only appears to be a simple photo/video capture program with some image manipulation much like Photo Booth. No doubt other Mac/Windows/Linux image capture programs can also be used.

Mel

[walpurgis]

My USB microscope displays images well enough, but the software was being difficult about saving them to file for some reason. I got around that by saving the images as screenshots. Works for me.

I do any tweaking of the saved images with FastStone Image Viewer. It's free, comprehensive enough and works well.

[karma67]

i use solid edge software to draw the angle on the photo,its free.
just got back with the 2m black so the microscopes out again!

[mac72]

i use solid edge software to draw the angle on the photo,its free.
just got back with the 2m black so the microscopes out again!

How are you getting on with your new cartridge ?

[farflungstar]

This fascinates and drives me nuts. Right now my SRA is off and it's my own fault. I've been very very happy with the sound of my Allearts for months now but for some reason decided that the arm was too high at the pivot and so dropped it about 5mm - stupid. The sound is not as focused as before and although I've raised the arm I can't seem to find that magical place. I know I will eventually, but it's a ball ache - for this reason I'm thinking of changing to an arm with easily adjusted VTA, a triplanar maybe - even though I love my wooden Elementum. I know about the business card trick but I want repeatable accuracy. Finding that sweet spot is essential to getting the most from your cart, especially those picky carts like the Allearts which must be at an exact vta, SRA and azimuth to be at their best - with no leeway.
Adey

Edit. Bugger just when I make my mind up someone snaps up the triplanar on fleabay - serves me right for dithering.

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[Cycleallday]

How about an Audio Mods Rega based arm with that micrometer adjuster - should get it spot on with that !

[karma67]

well 4 hrs solid and i think im stopping here.some more tweaking of the counter weight tomorrow,the 2m black sounds very good indeed,better than my mc-25 but that could be down to the new diamond.

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with that setting the cartridge/tonearm is dead level as recommended by ortofon,what are your 2m black settings gents,ive set my weight to 1.6g.