Very nice What Denon is this? The XG 7001 or the ST 105? What's the cart? MM or MC?I just measured the 1 kHz signal of the Denon record. It looks fine.
L->R: -33.2 dB
R->L: -36.2 dB
Both signals are out-of-phase which makes me think there is very little to do to improve it. It is also close the the Ortofon record of around -35 dB for each channel. So the result is different from the sweep.
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For nice and clean ( =easy to read) graphs I like to bandpass the signal in audacity. Conveniently that also removes all ticks pops and other artifacts.
You could also make a correction signal for your setup from this data, that could probably shave off another 10dB of crosstalk. It's pretty easy to do in audacity.
Whith that you can be sure that you're looking at the cutting head's crosstalk when you play an STR 100 and get, say, a 25dB crosstalk measurement.
I was just looking at Discogs for a few more ST 105 copies. There were two copies available in France. Refreshed the site and they were gone. Seems like we're being watched