Test vinyl album to finetune VTF cartridge

Posted by: Robiwan on 06 December 2017

Which vinyl album do you use as a test album to finetune VTF cartridge?

Posted on: 06 December 2017 by Japtimscarlet

The hi-fi news album has several track tracks that help to set tracking force

Posted on: 06 December 2017 by Richard Dane

Yup, the Hifi News LP or the Image Hifi Vinyl Essentials LP are pretty good for tuning VTF, bias etc..  However, to really do the fine tuning, by ear on a familiar LP of actual music (rather than test tones) is always best.

Posted on: 06 December 2017 by yeti42

Oceanborn by Nightwish showed me I had something wrong after I’d done the initial setup but there’s been a couple of albums since that have told me I needed to fine tune a bit more, the last one was Shaken n Stirred by Robert Plant, getting that to sound any good was a real challenge.

Just play music, you’ll soon notice something is wrong bacause sooner or later there’s always an album that highlights it. Just don’t adjust anything until you’ve been playing for at least an hour constantly.