I run my London Reference in an FR66s mounted on a Brinkmann Balance.
As presumably with any cartridge it benefitted from using good quality silver tonearm wires (in this case mounted in Arche headshell).
According to John Wright (who makes and services the cartridges) the FR arm is ideal and he uses an FR64.
He recommends a VTF of 1.8 gm (+/- 0.2) with VTA set so that top plate of the cartridge is parallel with the record, although he said there is no absolute and the ear is the best guide. In this regard I found that having the tail of the cartridge a nano-smidgeon lower than the front gave best results.After experimenting I found all works best with no bias setting at all.
As per above (VTF 1.82gm) there are no mistracking issues and it rides warped records as well as anything else I’ve got.
i have various other “high end” mc cartidges and the Decca is by far my favourite. You need to keep records clean and it doesn’t like bad scratches.
As presumably with any cartridge it benefitted from using good quality silver tonearm wires (in this case mounted in Arche headshell).
According to John Wright (who makes and services the cartridges) the FR arm is ideal and he uses an FR64.
He recommends a VTF of 1.8 gm (+/- 0.2) with VTA set so that top plate of the cartridge is parallel with the record, although he said there is no absolute and the ear is the best guide. In this regard I found that having the tail of the cartridge a nano-smidgeon lower than the front gave best results.After experimenting I found all works best with no bias setting at all.
As per above (VTF 1.82gm) there are no mistracking issues and it rides warped records as well as anything else I’ve got.
i have various other “high end” mc cartidges and the Decca is by far my favourite. You need to keep records clean and it doesn’t like bad scratches.