The Virtuoso. Because my only disagreement with Raul is about his holistic phylosophy and I regard the parts also important I first enjoyed looking at my new cantilever/stylus combo. With postage, etc. 150 Euro you know. The first suprise by installing the cart was the 'luxure' of an long cantilever. No need for any magnifying glass. It took me just 5 min. to adjust the 'zero points'. The second suprise was the tracking ability. I started with 2gm VTF because I have read 'somewhere' that this was 'optimal'. Well I got 90 micron without any 'buzz' from the R.channel. Remarkable. I got this 'value' only once before in my HIFI life. So I reduced the VTF to 1.7 gm. My first LP was Brahms 'Four serious songs' with Robert Holl an Dutch bass/bariton better known as Mahler specialist. I have seen many concerts with him so I think to know how his voice sounds. Well unbelievable. As if he was in my room. The sound of the Virtuoso is 'build up' from fundamentals (keynote) on with the most beautiful midd range I have ever heard before. This Robert has a chest of an wrestler and his chest was in front of me. I think that I was able to hear how his shest resonate. My second LP was with Callas which is not so easy to 'reproduce' . She has an enormous dynamic reach in her voice and as 'easy' she was as person as 'easy' she is for any cart whatever. No distortion whatever no sibilance problems of any kind. My impression of the high frequency(from the Orchestra) is that it is different then with MC carts. Not as pronouced anyway. But I just started my testing so this is some kind of an partial report. However this is the best MM cart I own at present.The other are: AKG P 25 MD, P 8 ES (Van den Hul), Signet TK 5E, AT 440 ML, AT 7V and Stanton 881 S. The Stanton was my preferance before.
So dear Raul I may have some philosophical problems with you but I learned to trust your hearing. Thanks for the shering of your knowledge and experience.
Kind regards,
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In_shore, You are probale an 'unbiased' person except reg. Raul and Ella. What about your mother?
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Dear Griffithds, 'All its riches would be ours'. For what purpose? Never heard about the 'income distribution'? Smith and Ricardo introduced the issue long time ago. |
Dear Lew, Are you sure that you are talking about carts? |
In_shore, My comment was intended as Balkan humour.
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Dear Lewm, Perhaps the so -called 'universal tractor' is an misnomer. I learned from Yip (Mint lp) that there are variations in the diameter of the spindle by diff. TT's. He made the 'Best Tractor' for my Kuzma S.R. & Triplanar specifically . Regards, |
Dear Raul, I never participated in your topic because my Basis Exclusive 'Gold' has no MM inputs. But because of you I already bought 4 MM carts. I like to express my hope that you will be as soon as possible healthy . Ie in your own thread. Very kind regards, |
Dear Raul, You are an gentlemem; you could ask:' why deed you bay 4 MM carts when you have no MM inputs on your phono-pre?' Ie such behaviour 'may' look very strange... Well first of all when ever you recommended some cart they become not only much, much more expensive but nearly not more available. So I learned to be very fast. This way I got 2 P-76 for ONLY $100. And only a week later I had the feeling that I become 'rich' for only $100. I will not mention my 'succes' with my shares...Then you proclaimed some 'Technics' to be 'the best of the best'. This 'pope' as you know from my emails was 'impossible' but I got the second best (the cardinal). The Ortofon on the other hand was 'a piece of cake'; I live near Germany. This all dear Raul I deed in preparation for my 'new' Basis from 2010 wich has also the MM inputs. My actual one is an 'old horse' from 2009 but well 'golden one'. So Raul those MM carts only look cheap . I hope I will not go bankrupt because of you. Kind regards, |
Dear Dgob, The strange thing is that I bought 'some' MM carts in order not to miss the 'MM contra-revolution'. Alas my Basis Exclisive 'Gold' has no MM inputs. But I got somehow the technical info about Andante P-76. So, I hope, this can be of some use for others:
Fr. range: 8- 45.000 Hz; Output: 2,5 mV; Channel sep.: 30 dB (1 Khz); VTF: 1.0-1,5 gr.; Stylus: tapered line; Weight: 5 gr.
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Dear Lewm, Sorry but your hypothesis is wrong. There are two 'versions' of Acutex. The prefix is 'LPM' for the new kind and 'M' for the old. Non of them is P-mount.The real problem is to get the original stylus. My web search during 3 months resulted in the conclusion that it is nearly impossible to get the original one. The after-market kinds are very suspect with remarcable prices. The same 'yellow kind' sells for $14,95 but also for $27,95. Those from 'Bluz Broz' are from $94 to $188 for the same stylus. I alreay bought two wrong styli. The providers have no idea about the mentioned 'kind' difference but also no idea if those they sell are conical or elliptical. So I am a proud owner of an Acutex M 315 with 3 conical styli.Even so I am still searching but intend to buy only the oriinal one. If I am able to find one that is. Regards, |
Dear Lewm, I send to you also an email with the picture of all Acutex styli that I own. My Acutex is the 'M' kind as I mentioned to you. So sorry once more but I already own the wrong LPM stylus. Those are totaly different from the 'M' kind. So one should be very careful with any after-market styli. Ie if those sellers can cheat Raul what chances have we then? Regards, |
Dear Lewm, We are already confused regarding the stylus shape as well as the versions of Acutex. If you like to add the colours to this confusion I am glad to provide. I have seen:yellow,red,purple,blue and black. Wich coulour doe you prefer? I want only an elliptical stylus for my M-315 STR. Ie I don'c care about the colour.
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Dear Lew, Those Bluz Broz styli seems to be much better by phone then on the pictures. On the pictures the models from M-310 to M-320 all have the same stylus:0,3x1,6x0,6. But the prices are from $59 to $188. With exception of M-312 STR non has any inscription on the corpus and they are all black. Even Tom (Timeltel)who has the most 'extended' knowlede reg. Acutex carts is not 'omnipotent' in (co)relation to all those styli. But there is some kind of psychological 'art' involved. The totaly wrong proposition is to start with:'if I had the money,then...' The next one is the 'actual world' proposition: I have the money then I transfer the money in 2 min.time and get my object of disire in a week time. But then the 'frontal lob' begin to ask those logical but tedious questions:'are you sure? was your decision not to fast,there are also those Benz Micros and the new one from 'our' J.Carr,etc.etc. This explains according to me all those second hand offers with 'only' 40 to 66 hours of actual use. But thanks to Raul there is this 'happiness for cheap' possibility. But you need to earn this happiness. I even had the inclination to learn Japanese in order to extend my search possibilitys while I already speak 5 different lanquages.You need also to suffer,to beg and to pray for those little bast. But when you at last get one (if ever) you luck seems to be 'onmeasurable'.Despite the fact that you have no idea in what state this object of disire actualy is. Well this looks to me as some kind of 'higher order' psychology. Regards, |
Dear all, Seneca was the first to postulate:'rationale enim animal est homo'. I think that our answer to Seneca would be :' dear Seneca being rational is fine but not all the time'. With 'our' I am refering to our members. Ie those who buy all these carts. But why should the producers, uh,produce carts with such compliance that nobody can use them? This,at least to me,is an anigma. Regards, |
Kcc123, I don't believe Raul will be impressed with your argument based on eff.mass. One can change the eff.mass by using lighter headshells. I am not familiar with AT 1503 but well with AT 1010. To my mind an excellent tonearm for MM carts. Regards, |
Dear Raul, It is very difficult to attribute to other persons some 'qualitys' that differenciate them from the others. So I will state this only in relation to me. I am in this hobby for 40 years so, obviously, there is no lack of experience. But my system is a 'boulding block' system meaning that I composed my system on 'speculation'connected to my information obtained from HI-FI magazines, forums and friends. The missing part is the possibility to experiment. I own 4 carts and two tonearms so this is the extension of my experiment possibilitys. No way I can do even this amount of experiments with amps, phono-pres and speakers. Ie my system is not a composition in the sence of synergy between the parts. This is the reason why I called my system the 'boulding blocks'. The difference with you and Dertonarm is the fact that you both have many ,many more of those experiments with different components wich are 'composed' in a composition of parts in a system. You mentioned your experience and knowledge many times before in your honesty but it looks like 'arogance' to some members. I think that I understand what you mean and have no problem at all to admit that your understanding of this sinergy between the 'parts' is on a other level then my.So we can profit from your investigation,experiments, and the results of those and express our gratitude for your social contribution to all of us.
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Pryso, This was exactly the design philosophy of Joachim Gerhard from (the former) Audio Physics.From Virgo II till Medea II all of his speakers were tuned to +/-40 Hz. For those that wanted subs he designed those as separat units. The 'belief' of Lew is the same as a hypothesis wich we all have regarding any component. But to know if our hypothesis is true or false there is only one possibility: experiment. As Lew I was very fond of electrostatic speakers. But in those times there was not a single sub with the needed spead. So I bought those big 'Magis' with 3 panels on each side (3x200x 40). All my visitors were as obsessed and not able to see anything else in my living room. 'What are those?', 'why do you need Spanish doors in your living room?','why are they so big?'etc. I sold them because in my new home with a much larger living room there was no amp. capable to drive them. I still don't believe that there are subs wich are so fast that one can combine them with electrostatics but there is this Torus from Wilson Benesch wich 'looks' very promising. Only the money is a hindrance for the experiment.
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Dear T_bone, On the German ebay.de there is one EPC-101 C listed for 'ages', as if the Japanese seller 'foxtan' has subscription on this ebay (389 Euro). Now I know that Raul is regulary visiting ebay.de 'fishing' for exotic carts in 'my waters'. Ie a small part of the Nord sea. He is obviously not satisfied with the Bahias of Mexico + the whole Pacific. However he never mentioned this cart in our forum in the sence of Lew . So there is, I think, some discrepancy in the valuation of this cart between you and Raul.
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Dear Halco, You of course know that we all were Popperians (critical rationalist) till Thomas Kuhn. Then we all started talking about the paradigmas and their shift. There is also the social phsychology wich is somehow connected with the 'social status'. In the eighty I bought the luxerious SP 10 II but was confronted with the comments like: can't you afford the Linn LP-12? We thought that you are a knowlegable person reg. analog gear.So I sold the SP 10 for the half of the price and bought the Linn. There was also the 'shift' caused by the Supex 900 such that nobody wanted to be associated with a MM cart. Our beloved FR-64 become popular then thanks to the Supex 900 and not because of FR-7, etc. So, it seems to me, we are 'ful circle' at present. Or, as some say, the history repeat it self. Regards,
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Dear Lew, You may find some comfort in the so called 'minimalist philosophy'. Or, to use more modern vocabualary, in 'less is better paradigma'. According to some reviewers the amps with less power sound better then the 'big guns'. Sam Tellig and Art Dudley for example. You will be not impressed I quess but the saving involved by avoiding the JC 1 may result in some added TT + tonearms.
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Dear Lew, I like to think that I am a careful reader but when I read your post I need to keep continual in my mind that you are a great admirer of Mark Twain. So when I come across your statement that you regard your collections of turntables, tonearms and MM carts as investment I was realy astonished. I deed read this statement 4 times over. I somehow forget Twain and when I recollected this fact I realy thought: this one is a typical Twain story. However by looking at the prices of those old DDTT, some of the old tonearms and more in particular of the extending list of the MM carts I needed to correct my own opinion. Ie it may be the case that your collection is indeed a good investment. However this does not apply for the amps.in my opinion. The rule there is: the older the cheaper. This was my reason to refer to the 'minimalist philosophy'. I would never dream to give you a technical advise. In economics however everything is allowed.
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Downunder, You should also add the measuring tool for the spindle-pivot distance. Mint tractor presupposes that this distance is already 'perfect' or exact. However Mint tractor is the only one I know of wich also accounts for the spindle diameter. I had no idea that spindles differ in this regard but learned about that from Yip (Mint LP). This was my primary reason to order two of them(Triplanar, Reed2A) for the spindle of my Kuzma so to speak.
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Dear Lew, Your arguments in casu are as if you were a professional logician/mathematician. But despite of this I don't believe that Dertonarm will be glad with your post. Namely it also logicaly follows from your argument that only those with,say, 4-5 tonearms should be interested.
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Hello Acman, I left Yugoslavia because there was nothing to distrubute and consequently to redistribute. |
Dear Dertonarm, If your argument is valid why should anyone, except the masogist, buy a tube anything?
Regards, |
Dear Lew, I am realy sorry; I thought that the argument was about the sound. Regarding pragmatics one can also mention: no need for a heating system and also add some aesthetical argument like the beauty of the tubes glow.
Regards, |
Dear Timeltel, I am not sure what you mean by 'universal claims' but to my mind those are not different from the so called 'universal quantification' in the logic of quantification. Even Tarskis theory of truth is in terms of satisfaction conditions. BTW Kant was an ordinary sitezen so not realy in the position to prescribe anything to anyone. Ie all kinds of prescriptions were Kings prerogitive while his autority was firmly grounded by appointment by the Allmighty. But I agree reg. Voltaire. |
Addendum, Those satisfaction conditions may need some illustration. If, say, Dertonarm is the only German with the sence for humour then you are not allowed to 'claim' the universal statement 'all Germans lack the sence for humour' as true. Ie the condition 'all' is not satisfied. Exactly the same method is used by Sir Karl (Popper) in order to explain his theory of refutation. At some phylosopher congress he first pronunced the universal statemet 'all swans are white' and then pulled a single black swan from his hat wich he brought from Australia for the occasion. The phylosopher are very suspicious in particular against each other so the most of them wanted to check and see with their own eye if this swan was not painted black. Even some from Australia. The Dertonarm case may seem somhow enbarrassing for the Dutch but they invented their own 'deviant logic' called intuitionist logic. Invented by Brouwer obvously because he had something against Kant and Frege (both of them Germans).
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Dear Timeltel, The 'moral duty' seems to be time dependant. 'Your' Aristoteles wrote an editorial about the question 'how should we treat our slaves'. If you read not some but the most statements of Kant about woman you will not believe your own eyes. So much for his moral. Regarding the logic of quantification I don't believe you got this right. It is not about 'certainty' but about condidions and those are usuly preceded with the hypothetical 'if'. This small expression is usualy overlooked so I got a reprimand from Lew in connection with the tubes. My quess precluded with 'if' was that they may be not practical. And then I was so glad to pass the first control...
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Dear Raul, I am very suprised by your 'clean (in deep)' method. More in particular this 'knife/sharp blade' looks to me very frightening. Is your intention to remove all the gold plating? I use for years this 2 components 'Cramolin' stuff from Monster Cable. One of them is to remove all the filth and/or oxidation ,the other (some kind of blue oil)to keep the work done in good condition. All the connectors look after 'my method' more shine. BTW I use a magnifying glass to check the work done.
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Dear Pryso, I know that Cramolin red contains some toxic component so I never drink the stuff. That is why it last so long. But if I understand you well you are not using the 'blue oil'. If so why?
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Strange, very strange. Our highest authority in MM matters is using a knife while our most eloquent member who is also a medical scientist use a filthy brush to 'clean' the connectors. However both are very critical reg. 'our' smallest omissions...Well Lew there are those small brushes to clean the space between our teeth which one can get in all kind of dimensions. I use a whole 'armada' of those but am in particular fond of the smallest one which fit even in the headshell 'tags'. Those brushes are more frequently 'refreshed'(Hi Raul) then those for my teeth. Pryso, the 'blue oil' is intended to neutralize the aggressive (toxic?) substance in the red stuff and this oil should be cleaned with the cotton material.A sticky stuff btw. Regards, |
Dear Dgob, that is how all revolutions start: Nirvana for cheap as well as for all. Ergo: buy only the MM carts which possible malfunction you can bear.
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Dear David, This is exactly what we are waiting for. No subjective feelings and semantic acrobatics but measured performance. This is the difference between the myths and the actual world. I hope you can bring more 'light' regarding the cantilever material: aluminium, boron, beryllium, diamond, etc. We need to pay more depending on exotic materials but the question is always if this make any sense. Thanks! Kind regards,
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Dear Halcro, We all try to help Dgob because we like this guy. But the primary question is if the stylus from the EPC 101 C will fit in MK IV version? I have seen on ebay.com one EPC 101 for $700 and the other one on ebay Germany for less. But even if this stylus can be used for the MK IV there are additional Van den Hul costs. Raul should be able to provide this info so our 'tortured' Dgob will have some idea about the total costs of the Nirvana. No way one can get there for cheap ,that is for sure. Regards, |
Dear Lew, Raul should be able to provide more precise info about Van den Hul 'treatment'. But we in Holland have one other re-tip service starting at 90 Euro for an aluminium cantilever with elliptical stylus and than, depending on the choice of cantilever material and stylus, rise to 400 Euro. For 400 Euro you get a ruby cantilever with F. Geiger stylus. BTW I don't believe that Van den Hul himself does the re-tip considering the fact that he is also managing director of at least 3 companys. Not to mention his own line of carts. Anyway our 'tortured soul' should know in advance what the total cost are. Regards, |
Addendum, The address of the re-tip service in Holland is: www.hifistudio 79.nl Their re-tip prices are the lowest as far as I know.
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Dear Raul, Are you suggesting to buy the EPC 101 C for the stylus alone? If so there is one on the German ebay for 389 Euro (Foxtan).
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Dear Dgob, the empathy is not an abstract feeling. We recognize our own and are therefore able to be sympathetic. There is no way one can share unknown feelings with the other. But +/-$ 700 for a stylus is really appalling.
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Dear Dgob, Those are much more complex questions than a re-tip of an cart. I am sure that each and every individual has his own unique identity. But there are those social rules that we acquire in the same way as our language skills. Those with 'different' or 'deviant' feelings are in trouble in any society that I know of. There is in any society some conception of what is regarded as 'normal' so that any 'deviation' is considered as 'abnormal' and treated as hostile. So no wonder that those individuals are searching for 'similar souls'.From them they hope to get undestanding or empathy. But this imply that they don't ekspect this from others. But if there are no similar souls one will feel desperately lonely and lost. Such is the force of the social environment. BTW you and Halco are not complaining by some 'bike forum' but by our own analog forum. We are supposed to know what it means to lose some rare stylus or cart.
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Dear Downunder, ''Raul's buddie's new Uni tractor'' is as credible as the substitution of the EPC-P100c-MK IV for the Denon DL-S1. But there is some strange kind of confort in this advise. First is the laugh and the second is that if the stylus of the Denon get demaged there will be no drama of any kind. I just ordered the Denon with the hope to listen without any (stylus) fear to my records.
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Dear Dgarretson, I like Dertonarm but despite of this will never mess with SUT's. Speaking about drama's. I just substituded the Basis Exclusive 'Gold' from 2009 for the 2010 version. The former had, to my suprise, no MM inputs. So Rauls promise of an MM Nirvana for cheap was a drama on its one in my case. Thanks to him there are also no more 'decent' MM carts bellow $300. But I think somehow that you are like me: the mind is with the MM carts but the heart is still on the LOMC side. Regards,
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Dear Lew, It looks as if you enjoy contradicting me. The mind or the 'ratio' should always chose for the $ 300 option above,say, 4K option assuming 'equal quality'. Anyway the economist seem to be sure about that. But even in your own 'vocabulary' the neocortex should choose for the $300 option although the limbic system may prefer the 4 K option (Urushi? ). This 'system' is , if I am right, the modern expression for the old-fashioned 'heart'. However the limbic system usualy winns from the other if I am well informed. Downunder, I am a student of Halcro and he give me some lectures about the Aussie humour. But I am alas not yet in the position to judge if it is 'dry' or 'wet'. Regarding the ASR. The embarrassing thing is that I am supposed to know the brand. I owned 3 previous , before 2009 , versions of both the amp. as well as the phono-pres. All Basis versions had both MM and MC connectors. Except the version 2009. That is way I was 'forced' to buy the 2010 version. Now this drama was much larger (qua money) than Dgob's stylus. No wonder than that my empathy is so 'huge' in similar situations . Regards,
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Dear Raul, You are a credulous person wich is a credit to your personality. But the buseness persons know the 'value' of the PR. They are in particular very fond of mythology and Van den Hul is also an grandmaster in this trade. According to his own story he is doing carts and retip in his spare time. Ie he need to run his cable and electronic companys. In addition he is also involved in the reaserch. Even we in Holland are not able to approach him directly but only via his dealers. I was not able to find the address of his BV ( limided liability company). BTW your letter was not from him personaly but from his BV. Why are they so persistent in convincing the customers that he himself is doing all the work even the 're-tip' service? Well dear Raul if you are not able to compare the prices how should you decide what to choose? Besides do you know how this re-tip work is done or what it contains of? According to the other re-tip service that I mentioned before the 'replacement of the stylus is much more difficult than the replacement of the cantilever with the stylus already furnished'. They buy those as components from their supplier (see J.carr about his supplier of styli). I made a comparission for the benefit (I hope) of our members. The USA Van den Hul dealer 'Eugene HI-FI, Oregon' ask $300 as min. charge ,$80 shipping, boron cantilever + line contact stylus $600-$ 700. The Dutch HI-Fi Studio start with 99 Euro for an aluminium cantilever + elliptical stylus while a boron cantilever with line contact stylus cost 250 Euro. Postage +/- 1o Euro. BTW I don't believe that this retip work is some kind of rocket science. Regards,
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Dear Raul, You are somehow always 'balancing' between the 'incredible complexity' and 'symlicity'. The latter are connected with general statements about all carts from the 60is as well as the (general) assumption that no or very litlle progress is made since. So J.Carr, van den Hul, Jan Allaerts, Lukatschek, etc. are selling old stuff in a new package at best. But they all are experimenting with the 'old method' of trial and error with all kinds of materials: wire,magnets,alloy,styli,cantilevers,etc.,etc. You own,if I am correct, some Allaerts cart(s). So you should know their technical specifications and I have never seen such specs. by any cart whatever. Are those irrelevant? 'Sciance' consist meanly also of this 'old method'. The reason is simple: without trying you get nowhere. So I was glad to see that at least someone (David) made some efforts reg. cantilever materials. To me this is the only way . So in my philosophy we should encourage and praise him for the effort and not, like some philosopher, invent problems for the sake of argument only. Regards, |
Dear Raul, As far as I know you was the first to mention the similarity of our hobby with fashion. In some other thread I refered to the first MC cart wich coused the MC 'stile' : the Supex. Than we have also the Linn-LP-12 wich coused the 'conviction' that belt-drive is superior to all other kinds. There should be many more examples of the same phenomenon. There are different 'frameworks' to explain such behaviour: 'leader-followers'; 'mass-psychology'; 'inclination to belong to some group', 'division of labour (the experts)'; 'novelty expectation', etc. It should be obvious , it seems to me, that manufacturers will follow whatever 'fashion' is actual. While all of those 'frameworks' make (some) sense my preference is for 'the division of labor'. We all are accommodated to this 'actual world' by experience and (consequently) our expectations as well as anticipations are 'preconditioned' Ie 'the A knows much more about b than I do, so...' In our forum this should be 'visible' by our 'authorities': the R for the carts, the H for the 'nude projects', the T for the tonearms, etc. So we (the rest) don't like the situations in wich R contradicts H or T or the other way around. Because this is very confusing. Ie 'confusing' in the context of division of labour and expectatons entailed in it. Regards, |
Dear Raul, 'Because this is very confusing'. You selected this part from my possible 'fremeworks' to explain the behaviour of the 'ordinary people' , those who seek advise in our forum. Ie from their perspective and not from the perspective of the so called 'specialist' or'authority' as I named them. I somehow think that you are medical doctor. If so you can imagine a patient who is confronted with two contradictory opinions of his doctors. This is what I meant with 'this is very confusing'. To my mind this is very similar with our 'Dr. R; Dr.H and Dr.D'. Respectively 'specialist' for carts,'nude projects' and tonearms in the perception of the 'ordinary members', that is. We all want the best cardiologist for our heart, the best lung specialist for our lungs, etc.,etc. And this is what I mean with 'the division of labour'. In the actual world this may be 'wishful thinking' but I realy think that this is a smart strategy. I never heard anyone stating:'' I don't care what kind of doctor I will get.'' So the strange thing is that understand every single sentence you wrote from your perspective but this is not the answer I exspected because you abviously misundertood what I wanted to say. We in Europe thought for very long time that 'authority' and 'truth' are the same. So Aristoteles 'ruled' for more than 2000 years, till Galileo. Since Galileo we (I hope) are aware that those are different 'animals'.
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Dear David, I am reluctant to recommend the 'HIFI 79 Studio' in Holland because I have no experience with them yet. Just posted my AKG 8ES 'super nova' for a retip. It is however a regular 'Hi-Fi' shop. Delivery between 4-6 weeks. The usual retip, as I understand it, is not some 'rocket science'. They buy all kinds of cantilevers with the stylus on from their supliers and put the whole thing in the tube of the cart. So you can get all kinds of cantilevers and styli from aluminium till ruby as well elliptical, line contact and F. Geiger styli. My point is this: they are cheaper than the rest. Anyone can 'check' with an 'cheap cart' and than decide further.
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Dear Raul, 'Theasing' is (also) something else then 'blame'. I have read all German information about AKG that I was able to find. As I mentioned alsewhere AKG destroyed all their stocks of carts and styli because they were aware about suspension problem. So to my mind the styli are the real problem. The corpus one can get on German ebay for cheap so possible problem with coils is solved by buying some other. 'A kingdom for a stylus' so to speak. BTW no blame but only praise for your work.
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Dear Timeltel, It was the Valhalla wich seduced me to try some 'living heros' who survived Wagner as well the influence of time. The reason is very simple: for such kind of money even an small chance to get near the Nirvana is worth the trouble.
Regards,
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