Tracking Matters Most


Interesting Steve Guttenberg interview on cartridge performance here with a young engineer from Soundsmith.

https://youtu.be/ylPDnZALvQQ

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No, I did not mention his appearance. I would never do that. I mentioned the appearance of his office which I saw in one of his Video's. I also saw the rest of his plant and you are right the manufacturing area is 3 orders of magnitude more organized than his office. But, Peter is the boss and he has to set an example for the rest of his staff. Not only this but it is said he manufactures his top cartridges himself. I can not say anything about his work as I have never had one of his cartridges or any work done by him. I never re tip cartridges. I throw them away once they are cooked. (which is not very often I might add) I truly dislike deceptive marketing and generally avoid buying products whose companies are guilty of this.   
He pretty much pushed Peter Ledermann's rhetoric about mass and stylus "jitter." It is hard to argue with mass as it applies to moving systems but I can only half warm up to Mr Ledermann. I like a lot of his arguments but his office is a pig sty which makes me very suspicious of the quality of his work and he does things such as his slide comparing the size (mass) of a moving coil assembly to his moving iron assembly. In his video he states that the moving coil assembly "is the lightest one made." Maybe 40 years ago. It is a huge thing pulled out of some cheap old cartridge. He does not have to do stuff like that to make his point. In the end none of his marketing has moved me to try one of his cartridges.