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Dub Studio · Joined: 20 Jun 2006 Posts: 51 Location: Bristol

With all this really interesting talk about RIAA circuits, I am just wondering what's the best way to test linearity. What is the standard procedure for this?

motorino · Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 212

i know this procedure (i believe its the same for cutterheads...)

you need like http://www.trueaudio.com/rta_faq1.htm 9

pink noise, start the test with a little signal, be careful! or the cutterhead will smells like....and cut

need a good turntable with a catrigde-riaa preamp tuned for best fidelity possible, and compare with the rta

for calibrate your turntable and cutterhead....
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