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Re: The point I tried to make, but apparently without success...

You should read the relevant technical papers, there is distortion (both harmonic and IM) due to VTA/SRA, lateral tracking error, skating force, stylus shape, groove deformation (and others I'm not thinking of right now), none of which can be made disappear. Then you have mechanical resonances in the cantilever, inhomogenities in the magnetic field, lost of groove contact on heavily modulated passages, etc. etc.

I can't remember the exact figures, but in the worst case it sums up to something between 5 and 8%, well above the threshold of audibility. And you don't optimize all parameters for each single record, do you? I yet have to encounter the audiophile who sets the null points correct for each single record he is playing. And even he he did, it ain't zero distortion.

If you want LP without all of the above, use an ELP.

Klaus

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