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What Are The Differences Between The Vandenhul Cartridge Families

It seems like VDH had an abrupt departure in his cartridge designs awhile back. There were the metal body ones like the Grasshopper and other types, and then all of a sudden the open architecture of the Stradivarius cartridges appeared. Seems like the specifications also indicate a fundamental shift in design philosophy also. Yet I believe there is one hold over, or at least the silver and gold versions of the Grasshopper stayed around longer than the other ones.

 

Does anyone know what changed, and what the corresponding differences in presentation might be? I was looking at 3 of the Frog series cartridges available here on Audiogon.

neonknight

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@neonknight 

I do not know about you, but I can not afford the time, effort and care not to spend the money going through 10 cartridges to get to one good one. There are so many fine cartridges you can depend on. If you want a cantilever hanging out in the breeze get a Lyra, Clearaudio or Verismo. It made me nervous for a while but I got use to it. Always put your stylus guard on before you do anything. 

I never got a VDH because the tolerances of the ones I have seen and the pictures I have looked at are uniformly terrible,  which is why people say they all sound different. 

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