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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Reasons versus causes. Reasons are products of our brain 
expressed  in language. Causes are natural process expressed
by physical laws. The best way to explain the difference is 
by quantification theory in combo with Tarski's theory of truth
by ''satisfaction'': all x sats Fg& Gx is true if there is no contra
example. That is to say that if one x does not satisfy the conditions
F&G then the whole  statement is not true.
There is no sense in question ''what reasons had the earthquake
to destroy the city?''
By stating that the ''moving mass'' is the most important part by
an MC cart one assumes ''causal connection''. Well i own Yamaha
MC-1S with the lowest moving mass of all my MC carts but can't
get rid of the thing for $500. To put this otherwise I prefer all other
carts above this Yamaha. In the sense of above ''general sentence''
about ''all x'' this Yamaha does not satisfy F&G. Consequently the
generalisation is not true. 
To explain this ''conditional theory'' in our case one can also
state that ''more conditions'' then just one need to be satisfy
in order to get an good sounding cart. Body material , damping,
coils, generator, cantilever , stylus, etc. In ''holistic approach'' all
parts are important.