That's defintely far too much. Have you calibrated correctly?

I get a slight pause, but it's not near a second...

maybe i have not calibrated correctly my system... i will try it and let you know later.

by the way, the calibration circles appear too small, could this be related to the excesive needle drop latency?

thanks for the support :)

have you used the zoom function to enlarge the circles? Do the circles appear too small even if zoomed all the way?

stu

Did you select Phono in Setup ? ;-)

Couin

oh dear, i forgot to select phono in setup...

now calibration circles are ok. thank you mates :)

btw, needle drop latency is still higher than FS. i assume this is normal... isnt it?

thanks again!

what's your buffer set at?

i haven't used FS so I can't compare; however, I can compare SSL with regular vinyl and SSL is pretty instant.

BassChamber, What are the specs on your computer? are you running SL on an older machine?

My needle drop latency is way better for me on SSL than FS. On SSL it's like using regular vinyl. On FS I always had a very noticeable delay. My thresholds are at -48 dB, my buffer is at 10 ms, and my circles are good.

I don't want to insult anyone's intelligence, but note that -24 is higher than -72. So, the slider to the left = more sensitive.
One other thing to note is that needle dropping will be faster if the record is moving when you put the needle down - i.e. if you are holding the record still with one hand and dropping the needle with the other, and you put the needle down _then_ move the record it will take longer than if the needle hits the moving record.

i have installed SSL on other different pc and now... there is almost no latency!

this means that the problem is on my laptop, i will try changing windows configuration again.

btw, my laptop hard drive has FAT32 format. could this be the reason for the needle dropping latency?

again, thanks very much for your support, your are giving a lesson to stanton and native instruments.

i'd doubt it; the format of the drive rarely makes a huge difference unless the file system is severely corrupted.

the speed of your computer will matter also...