Demagnatizing a ZYX Cartridge

Dear Slowhand: Who told you that your ZYX or any other today cartridges needs the: demagnatizing sevice?

What do you want to demagnatize? why?

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Hey Doug: Can you give an answer to my questions about ? I ask you because you support this exercise and if you did I suppose that you know the demagnetizing: Why's.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Doug/slowhand: For I can demagnatizing a phono cartridge first I need that some of the critical cartridges parts/build were magnatized and in today cartridges there is no single part that " suffer " the magnatized effect.
So, why have I to demagnatizing something that are not magnatized?

I already ask to some cartridge builders like: Ortofon, Dynavector, Van denhul, Allaerts, Koetsu and Clearaudio. The answers was the same: their cartridges doe not needs demagnatizing, because there are no parts to demagnatizing.

All these similar answers confirm my statement/question.

Now, all of you " hear improvements " after the demagnatizing ( I believe you ) but I think that you are doing more harm to your cartridge that helping it.

Maybe what is happen is the same that happen when you clean/polish a gold metal chain that is dusty: after the clean/polish the gold metal chain really " shine " again but that gold metal chain loose a little of the gold metal ( with each and again clean/polish )and is loosening its original value ( price. less gold content ).

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Doug: My experience and answers from manufacturers were for the active devices.

I don't know about the Cardas passive device.

What I know, active or passive, is that the question has to be answered by the cartridge manufacturer. Not a dealer not any one of us.
The cartridge manufacturer is the person that has all the know how about and in particular about his cartridge.

+++++ " How would that harm a cartridge? " +++++

You don't know for sure, the cartridge manufacturer has the best/safe answer. Not you.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Doug: I mean: Not you or I.

Who can tell me for sure that there will be no harm/degradation in the cartridge in the long run?

With out a definitive manufacturer answer, my advice is to stay far away.

As a fact any one of us does not want that our value cartridges: 3K to 9K, can suffer any damage " only for demagnatizing " it.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear friends: The subject here is why we need to demagnatizing a phono cartridge, not if " sound better " after that or not.

I already post the next statement: " for I can demagnatizing a cartridge I need that that cartridge were magnetized before ". I ask to any one in this thread: " which parts are magnetized ? Why are magnetized? if it is magnetized, this magnetized parts change the quality sound reproduction of the cartridge?
Till today every one speaks of many things but not a single one give a specific answers to those critical questions.

Come on: " before I take a towel for to dry my body I need that my body be wet ", usually!!!!! .

Lugnut, this is not negativity, this is : common sense, that's all.

Btw and this is a subject for other time: if what you are hearing after the demagnatizing your cartridge is a better high frecuency reproduction I can tell you for sure that what you are hearing after the demagnatizing is a higher distortion than before that exercise. Please don't turn aside this thread about this " distortion " subject: leave it for a better ocasion.

The " demagnatazing " subject needs your answers about.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear friends: Well, my opinion is that till any one of us have a specific cartridge manufacturer confirmation about the safe demagnatizing " exercise " it will be better stay away.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Doug: +++++ " He says it's possible, even probable. " +++++
+++++ " He hasn't attempted to verify this in a metallurgical lab, " +++++

All these means nothing about.

+++++ " He knows more atomic and molecular level metallurgy than all the audio engineers on the planet " +++++

This is arrogant, btw: who cares?

Your post does not help on the main subject.

Doug, you have higher distortion.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Doug: +++++ " What are your qualifications in metallurgy? Your "common sense" is of little use in understanding metals at the molecular level. " +++++

What's all about? why your aggressive mood?

+++++ " . He knows more atomic and molecular level metallurgy than all the audio engineers on the planet. " +++++

Doug, sorry I don't need any person with the Paul qualifications. Maybe you could promote him in a dedicated employment web site.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.