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Headphoneus Supremus
carts exhibit vastly different behaviour once called upon to track high amplitude low frequency signals
Isn't that just plain logical? How do you make a tuningfork resonate? Get the mass exited with a max amplitude tug or apply the frequency.
If the cartridge exhibits gross non linearities anywhere within its operating range - not just within its spec or 20Hz-20kHz range - it will noise on vinyl .
And this also. But I wouldn't call it vinyl noise as such. It is non-signal related resonance induced by excitation from,... well anything that gets it excited (save porn I guess ). At the moment I was listening to an old Decca Ace of Clubs mono record that a a severe hum once I put it on. In the runout groove it suddenly stops. Meaning that it is not vinyl noise. Maybe the lathe or maybe it's on the tape. Beside the hum the record sounds excellent though. I also had a few Decca testpressing (all in the English collection I just received). They were in flimsy paper sleeves and the last one I just played (v Beinum CGO Sym Fantastique) had a starfish shaped scratch from a grain of sand the size of a mooncrater just at the beginning. But I was curious about the sound. The sound was very good and amazingly quiet. Then the tick set in, tick, tick, ticktick, poptick, pop. POP, POP, tick, tick. undistorbed music until runout. Eh? Was that it? I really expected the cart to be launched, or hang or something. Amazing how you can't tell the severity of a scratch when you have a decent cart (ok, mine's more than decent).
Now I am playing an EMI Columbia SAX 2486 (3rd ed stamp), it looks absolutely squeaky clean (washed and treated), and still ticks all over the music like a rangers dog. Really annoying since the music is so absolutely wonderfull (Klemperers Mozart 40). The LP is now bathing in woodglue. See how this turns out.