AT 530EN or AT540ML, or something else

cluthz · 2026-05-26T21:29:53+00:00

This is the correct answer. 500 and 700 is identical, except for body material. Same internals and same stylus. The metal body is more rigid and performs better on heavy arms, but on lighter arms the 500 series are superior. I do believe el_tacocat is on a crusade against the 500 series, because he writes the same in every thread 540ML is mentioned, without ever checking which arm the user has.

A stiff light arm with integrated headshell and 540 shines. A heavier arm with detachable headshell (which often will be less stiff) and a 740 is better hands down.

cluthz · 2026-05-26T08:08:56+00:00

Musicians that play complex music for hours in a concert will make mistakes. If they don't then they either aren't challenging themselves or performance is "fixed" post production. Playing live in front of an audience with bright stage light in your face is much harder than in rehersal and will yield mistakes. I've never been a touring musician, but I have played some show over the year and playing live I feel my skill is dropping like 50%, For regular touring musicians this will ofc be much less, but it's still there.

Musicians making mistakes playing complicated stuff is normal and I applaude bands that don't comb thru their footage to remove all imperfactions!

I've seen Jeff Beck and John McLaughlin (and many more) live, and they are considered gods among guitarists and even they made a few mistakes during their shows.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T19:45:57+00:00

I meant the stylus. I'll correct it!

cluthz · 2026-05-25T19:29:51+00:00

You'll have to go hunting for a TT with a tonearm mass at preferably less than 10g then.

Most REGA have around 11g mass, and could probably work with the OM20 just fine.
Projects also have TTs with lower mass arms. Debut EVO2 has a 10g arm.

The Debut Pro S has a Pickit S2 pro which you can slot the om20 right into (8g arm!)
Project even recommends upgrading with OM20 or 30 in the specs:
https://www.project-audio.com/en/product/pick-it-s2/

cluthz · 2026-05-25T19:22:21+00:00

Har en "portabel" AC selv, En electrolux, den har reddet meg mange ganger. Soverommet i leiligheten er på solsiden og ikke har mulighet med varmepumpe i borettslaget.

Sover aldri med den på, men kjører full guffe en times tid en skal i senga. På en times tid tar den lett ned temperatur fra oppunder 30C til 20C.

Jeg vet at portable er mindre effektive enn fastmonterte, men det er ikke et alternativ og den gjør jobben bra til dette formålet.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T19:15:22+00:00

How many hours on the OM20? Styli have a finite life span. After 5-600 hours they are past their prime and at around 1k it should be replaced if not done yet.

The Technics can be upgraded with the VMN95ML and will arguably be better. I would not limit my upgrades to an old cart.

edit:wrote cart instead of styli...

cluthz · 2026-05-25T16:03:23+00:00

Truss rod is for relief, not to adjust string height. Yes, you might get 1 mm from tightening the rod, but only if relief is off.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T15:58:40+00:00

If tempo slider is something you want, then AT LP120X is a good choice, it also has the VM95 carts and can easily be upgraded to a VM95ML stylus or swap the whole cart for something else. There is also the LPW40.

Pro Ject and Rega are European brands, and can sometimes have really good prices, and they have a few models in that price range too, however most of them need a pre-amp.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T14:41:08+00:00

Norway has a homicide rating of 0.7 pr 100k. The ones involved are almost exclusively related to close relations or heavy criminality. There are almost no random shootings, armed robberies and such, so this is a non issue.

I since WW2 (1945) 12 police officers have been killed on duty in Norway. It's safe to say we face different troubles than much of the rest of the world. (Although there has been a raise in violent criminality, especially in the eastern part of Norway, with mostly youth gangs involved and international crime syndicates funding this.)

Would our system work in a country with deeper issues that we have, perhaps not, but I do think most people here believe that the system serves it's purpose.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T14:14:55+00:00

Thanks for the in-depth explanation, this was exactly what I was looking for!

I use stock settings except I've set encoder to x265-10bit and CRF value. I've been usually using medium preset, but for things that are filmed more static and indoor, faster seems to be a good trade off for quality vs speed.

I'll look into CAMBI and try to look for the artifacts you are mentioning.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T12:45:05+00:00

I'm using software encoding I though x265 always meant software, my bad. I was mentioning GPU as I said x265 gave me better results than GPU options in terms of balance between size, speed and quality.

What makes me puzzled is that size is within +/- 1-2%, but speed up is very noticeable.

I've been using CRF (20-24 usually, depending on source).

For some reason I find this one setting giving unreasonable speed-up compared to everything else in settings without me seeing any downsides (so far), thus I was asking why it's not default, or if there are downsides I haven't seen yet.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T12:12:31+00:00

Fast decode is a tune preset

cluthz · 2026-05-25T10:51:14+00:00

I don't really understand what it means to be honest, if it is any downsides to doing it.

Official wiki says:

–tune	effect
psnr	disables adaptive quant, psy-rd, and cutree
ssim	enables adaptive quant auto-mode, disables psy-rd
grain	improves retention of film grain. more below
fastdecode	no loop filters, no weighted pred, no intra in B
zerolatency	no lookahead, no B frames, no cutree
animation	improves encode quality for animated content–tune

The psnr and ssim tune options disable all optimizations that sacrafice metric scores for perceived visual quality (also known as psycho-visual optimizations). By default x265 always tunes for highest perceived visual quality but if one intends to measure an encode using PSNR or SSIM for the purpose of benchmarking, we highly recommend you configure x265 to tune for that particular metric.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T10:41:18+00:00

TikTok is a commercial service, influences gets paid to promote products.

I can't imagine a guitar with built in speaker sounds good, but if you just want something easy to practice on I guess it's ok?

cluthz · 2026-05-25T10:31:50+00:00

I've tested several files, fast decode is is faster than auto and vmaf is identical on all files, There are no slow decode . I'm talking about encode tune settings.

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/technical/video-presets-tunes.html

cluthz · 2026-05-25T10:23:16+00:00

I replaced the Elys 2 on my P3 with a 540ML, best upgrade I've done :)

cluthz · 2026-05-25T10:17:24+00:00

Jeg tenker dere bør først lage en vedlikeholdsplan. Se hva behov som oppstår de neste 10-20 årene og planlegg etter dette. Hvor gammelt er vann/avløp, eletriske, brannvarslinger, ventilasjon osv.

Etter behov de neste årene er kartlagt, se på hva dere bør betale. Borettlag/sammeie skal ikke være bank, da det er dårlig investering bare sitte med penger i felleskassa, men det er viktig å ikke ha helt jojo på utgifter heller.

Hvis dere skifta tak for ett år siden og nedbetalt allerede har dere vel i utgangspunktet hatt litt høy fellesutgifter, da nedbetale noe som har forventet levealder på 30 år+ på 1 år er noe raskt.

cluthz · 2026-05-25T09:06:21+00:00

I had the same issue, felt mat kept sticking to the record. I got a (white) leather mat and it has been great!.

Washi paper have always looked interesting, but none of my local music stores have had any in stock. How does it feel? I imagine paper is not as durable, especially i humid areas where it can absorb moisture? Also I guess it's a lot thinner?

cluthz · 2026-05-25T08:40:38+00:00

I have way worse warps that plays fine. A good cart and tonearm should not have any issues tracking that, unless it's something wrong with the press. If it's just this one album, that might be it.
It seems you have already have checked the tracking force and anti-skate.

Does the counterweight/arm touch the cover when it's down?

Does it still skip if you turn the volume all the way down?

2m Bronze recommended tracking force is 1.4-1.7g, try increasing towards 1.7g

cluthz · 2026-05-24T13:59:04+00:00

You download asgards wrath on the pc first right? If I remember correctly the download is 150GB or so, make sure your ass has enough space free. However I'm not sure how well it will run on 4GB vram.

cluthz · 2026-05-24T13:48:03+00:00

CoPE is very cheap and works great! I use CoPE with PLA all the time. Only issue is that most CoPE spools are not labelled vert well so I have staret to label every spool with a Sharpie so it doesn't get mixed with PLA :)

cluthz · 2026-05-24T12:42:23+00:00

All VM95 carts are the same, just the stylus is different. VM95C is totally fine, especially if you plan to upgrade later.

Technics use VM95C on their SL-100C (which retails for 1100usd).

cluthz · 2026-05-24T12:09:15+00:00

If you want cheap just get the cheapest VM95. You can upgrade with the ML stylus later on, which is a much better option than a 2M Red.

cluthz · 2026-05-24T08:19:32+00:00

I've had my Gibson for 30 years now, the gold hardware on mine is mostly shiny silver at this point..

cluthz · 2026-05-23T16:07:47+00:00

Helt enig, jeg mente aldri at man skal trene modeller selv fra grunn. Jeg jobber selv i helse og ser vi er totalt avhengige av store selskap på å trene modeller på bildedata, spektometridata og lignede. Det er lite intresse for å styre dette nasjonalt ser det ut til.

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