So, have you heard anything Marco?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
So, have you heard anything Marco?Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Sounds a bit of a nightmare Marco. It's a long time since I used a turntable and I probably wouldn't know quality one if it fell out of the sky and hit me on the heid ! What I do remember from the days when the big black round disc was my music medium of choice was when I got it right , my god was it right! I hope your efforts and patience are rewarded by that rarest of events when the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and your bottom jaw hits your knees. Never had it with digital playback , maybe one day .
Brian.
Hi Mark,
Not yet, mate. As soon as I know anything, I'll report it here.
Brian, I totally agree regarding the joys of vinyl, and thanks for your kind remarks. I'll get there in the end :)
Marco.
No worries, I was just hoping you had heard some good news.
It's all a bit crap this isn't it? I'm grinding my teeth for you Marco.
You mentioned that you thought the engineering quality equalled SME's, but I don't reckon something like that would happen too often with an SME arm released out into the wild. To be fair, maybe it doesn't happen too often with Ortofon either but I need an excuse to tell a little anecdote about tonearm quality control:
Back in the 80's there were several occasions when I would take a minor detour on the way home from the Chequer Inn on Steyning High Street and, fuelled by a lively evening spent imbibing flat, warm Sussex bitter, I'd stick my arm under the locked & chained down lid of the skip which stood outside the SME factory to see if I could fish anything 'useful' out. You didn't need to speak to too many people Steyning before you came across at least one who had a tale of AR-A's meticulous expectation of perfection & I knew several people who worked at the factory who assured me that some good stuff with only minor flaws got in there. Sadly, it didn't take too long to discover that it wasn't exactly spilling over with Series V's!
Hi Chris,
Indeed it is a bit crap, but it's simply a matter now of waiting until the necessary bits get to Denmark, and then back, fixed. The shipping process in itself is the main part of the delay.Quote:
It's all a bit crap this isn't it? I'm grinding my teeth for you Marco.
You mentioned that you thought the engineering quality equalled SME's, but I don't reckon something like that would happen too often with an SME arm released out into the wild. To be fair, maybe it doesn't happen too often with Ortofon either...
As far as the arm was concerned, there was bugger all wrong with it, until I mistakenly (although one could argue logically) thought that a screw near to the bayonet entry for the headshell was for adjusting azimuth, in order to try and fix the wonky cartridge I had been supplied with, which of course it wasn't.
Up until then, mate, the arm was performing sublimely, and its combination with Martin's Shelter 5000 cartridge, on my T/T in his system, was unquestionably the finest I've heard from vinyl replay in the 29 years I've been into high-end audio - it was truly sensational!! :eek:
So of course I'm desperate to recreate that standard of sonic reproduction, which my new SPU (when I get my original back or replaced) will hopefully allow. It was the misaligned SPU, which should never have been allowed to leave Ortofon's factory, that was the catalyst for the nightmare I've experienced, not the RS-212D, which remains as one of the finest tonearms I've ever used or heard.
Marco.
Whoops.... that will teach me to speed read the thread at silly o'clock in the morning!Quote:
Originally Posted by YNWaN
I would of expected the assembly, automated or not, to be in a jig with a good inerference fit or press fit. This SPU does seem to of missed a QC check, perhaps a friday afternoon cartridge. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds & lets hope Ortofons customer service/care is better than there QC in this instance.
Amen to that, muchacho! :)Quote:
I would of expected the assembly, automated or not, to be in a jig with a good inerference fit or press fit. This SPU does seem to of missed a QC check, perhaps a friday afternoon cartridge. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds & lets hope Ortofons customer service/care is better than there QC in this instance.
Marco.
im shocked at the apparently very shoddy quality control at ortofon with this SPU. one would NEVER have this Q.C issue with decca catridges. :lolsign:
they picked the wrong person to send a dodgy one to didn't they! :)
things go wrong, one must learn to accept that. :)
close the thread now as it's becoming quite boring...:ner:
it is potentially putting people off buying one too
:lolsign: