shibata tends to sound just a hair richer than microline/microridge/SAS
shibata or microline, pls respond ONLY if you specifically have tried both.
I only want to hear FIRST hand experience, not lecturing please.
These two seem too confusing to me. I have a VM540ML AT cartridge and cannot decide whether Shibata or Microline is better. AGAIN, PLS DO NOT LECTURE ME ABOUT **OTHER** EXPENSIVE CARTRIDGES.
To me obviously the music quality matters. However, I also give a lot of importance to how durable one stylus over the other one is AND very importantly, which one is easier (less finnicky) to set up. Also, it is important that the stylus does not degrade the vinyl excessively.
If you tell me an elliptical is easiest to set up but is 10% less musical, I would probably go with that too.
So.... any ACTUAL experience with either of these two styli ?
Thanks
These two seem too confusing to me. I have a VM540ML AT cartridge and cannot decide whether Shibata or Microline is better. AGAIN, PLS DO NOT LECTURE ME ABOUT **OTHER** EXPENSIVE CARTRIDGES.
To me obviously the music quality matters. However, I also give a lot of importance to how durable one stylus over the other one is AND very importantly, which one is easier (less finnicky) to set up. Also, it is important that the stylus does not degrade the vinyl excessively.
If you tell me an elliptical is easiest to set up but is 10% less musical, I would probably go with that too.
So.... any ACTUAL experience with either of these two styli ?
Thanks
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as for comparing micro line and shibata, this can now be done with JUST the shaped diamond stylus itself being the single differential, for proper single cause analysis. that is in the VM95 series of cartridges and styli from audio technica. If one buys the shibata version and the micro line version, this single cause analysis can actually be done. It’s not perfect as tests go, but it is as good a single cause test that you’ll ever get to. In this audio technica example set, the single difference is the diamond. The motor, the mounting the gluing the cantilever the suspension, etc, all the same. I’ve got both right here and have done exactly that, but have additionally owned and used multitudes of each type stylus as equipped on various cartridges, over the years. |