If you're leaning towards the Crown Jewel, you may want to check out the Shelter cartridges out of Japan. I believe that it was dicovered that the Crown Jewels were nothing but Shelters with a nice paint job (and an additional $2000 on the price tag). You can buy them straight from Japan. I believe the cost approximately $700 for the 501 and $1300 for the 901, and they're both supposed to be quite good.
Cartridge Selection? Help
My ORACLE DELPHI V needs a new cartridge to mount on it's VPI JMW arm. The pre-amp is an SONIC FRONTIERS SFL2 SIG. or a MARK LEVINSON #25 with high-gain card.
Amongst others, I am considering the following:
Ortofon Rohmann MC
Lyra Helikon Reg. or SL
Crown Jewel Reference
These all sell for around 2k U.S. new or $600 - $800 "used".
My difficulty is in calculating the cartridge mass with that of the tonearm in order to obtain the optimum balance.
Would you analog experts point me in the best direction(s)!
Thanks, Colm
Amongst others, I am considering the following:
Ortofon Rohmann MC
Lyra Helikon Reg. or SL
Crown Jewel Reference
These all sell for around 2k U.S. new or $600 - $800 "used".
My difficulty is in calculating the cartridge mass with that of the tonearm in order to obtain the optimum balance.
Would you analog experts point me in the best direction(s)!
Thanks, Colm