That's all very well if you know what to look for, any stylus I've looked at looks so rough I feel I wouldn't let it near my vinyl, and that includes new.
That's all very well if you know what to look for, any stylus I've looked at looks so rough I feel I wouldn't let it near my vinyl, and that includes new.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
These devices only have a magnification of 20-30x, and are only useful to check how clean the stylus is. They are all pretty useless for examining for stylus wear - for that you really need stereo-microscope having a magnification of 200x.
However having said that, the cheap coin inspection device cited above is the best I have used to check for stylus cleanliness.
Barry
Location: Cheltenham
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I'm Charlie.
Playing around with a cheap £25 USB microscope from Amazon - using Photo Booth on a Mac Book Air
NOS Ortofon M20 FL stylus - viewed end on at 200x (using optical and digital zoom)
For reference, look here at the old Shure stylus microscope manual - you want to see two small highlight either side of a wide black gap at the tip (relatively speaking) - i.e. you don't want two large white spots almost merging in the middle
http://pubs.shure.com/view/guide/SEK-2/en-US.pdf
R2R: Studer A820 1/2 inch 2 track; Otari MTR-12 1/4 inch 2 track; Sony APR 5003; Sony APR 5002; Studer A807/II. Vinyl: Platine Verdier Allaerts MC1B/Schroeder Reference & Model 2 Decca C4E/Hadcock 228 TRON Seven Reference phono. Keith Monks MkII RCM Other analogue source: Nakamichi Dragon with ANT4066 mods. Amplification: TRON Meteor preamp TRON Voyager 20B SET power. Speakers: Avantgarde Duo. Digital: computing at last with Prism Sound Lyra 2 A2D converter
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I'm stuart.
Jamie, I bought one of these and not sure whether it's knackered or not. Where the hell does it save the pictures to when you click on the 'take a picture' button? I've found a folder called CoolingTech\CapPicture but there's nothing in it. Also, how does the zoom button work as it doesn't seem to do anything?