Hello vinyl junkies, I've decided to go ahead and sell this Excellent Ribbon cartridge. I've had a couple inquiries come through private messaging about this... I've looked up all the data that I could find from years gone by from when we tested it.
The cartridge is obviously mint, you could call it New Old stock. it is in its original packaging with full hand spec'd sheet included. The foam that is was packaged in is disintegrating, but other that that everything is fine.
We played this about 2 hours total and that was only testing to get the very best out of it. The cartridge, when ran on a what you would consider normal impedances had a peak at 8k or so, but we found that when ran on 1.5 to maybe 3 ohms, the peak was gone and this thing was flat, smooth and detailed. The peak with higher impedances could be tamed with a cap across the outputs. It required a minimum gain of about 30db and really liked more like 40. This is as rare of a find as there is and will perform with the best out there when loaded correctly.
That's the basics, so now about selling it... I've never sold here on Audiogon... Listing here -- does it work like the ebay? can I put a reserve on bids? or can I do bids with a buy it now kinda thing? This forum overall has been good for me and If I can work it like ebay which I am so familiar with, I'd rather sell it here.
Any advice is appreciated.
Tim
