Btw, the Empire D3 was designed to look 100kohms. Look for a way to do it in your system because the rewards are really high and worth to do it with that 4000 D3.
Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear @travbrow : Yes that " older " Empire D3 is better than the Gold one, many years ago some owners posted the same in this thread. Btw, the Empire D3 was designed to look 100kohms. Look for a way to do it in your system because the rewards are really high and worth to do it with that 4000 D3. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
Raul, I think the 100K recommended is for playing CD4 quad channel records, because of the need to read the highest frequency spectrum for the quad channels. It sounds balanced and extended with 47k with my setup. I could change out the loading resistors at some time but I have other models to try that recommend the normal 47k loading. |
Halcro, If there were deficiencies in the FR tonearm vs the Dynavector, would they be audible via a Youtube quality recording of playback? I am dubious. However, I share your rejection of Raul's constantly repeated criticism of the FR tonearms. Like you, I hear no problems at all related to lack of damping. And in fact I think they ARE damped, at the bearing, which is packed with some sort of greasy lubricant. Furthermore, the counter-weight is decoupled from the arm wand, another form of damping. And finally, the B60 base adds mass, improving energy dissipation.I have my FR64S on a Victor TT101 sitting right next to my very tweaked Lenco with a Dynavector DV505, so I have had many opportunities to compare the two tonearms, albeit the 505 is not quite a 507 MkII. Each has strengths relative to the other. |
Dear @travbrow : Yes, almost all manufacturers advise is to load at 47k but just before I started this thread and because I always like to think and makes things " out of the box " I started to test different vintage MM cartridges ( not like the D3 for CD4. ) loading it to 100k and was a great surprise and discovery for me because almost always all cartridges performs way better for stereo ( not CD4 ) with 100k. Period. So, you could try it with your D3 and other ones you own and decide about. You can't know it till you have first hand experiences and you know how to do it in your phono stge. What can you lost? Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
For every phono stage I have ever examined, the "re-work" requires de-soldering the 47K resistors and then soldering 100K resistors in their place. That does require removing the top of the chassis for access. Gold Note understandably wants to discourage DIY by incompetents, I guess. Any good tech could do it in 30 minutes. |
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@halcro : I can see that you are in a hurry. I have no doubt that you are the inspiration for any one of masochism and the best today specimen of that. You was who started with that post and as I said before you return for more and due to your followed posts to the " first " one you deserve that kind of pleasure but will be when I decide about not when you need it. Don't worry what I will post will be something for you can really live and masochist orgasm exactly as you ask for. R. |
Raul, Your listening room is really a disaster.... No wonder you have to do 'near-field' listening.... And the racks which support your turntables are an embarrassment for anyone who knows the importance of isolation from Structure-Bourne Sound Transmission. I also suspect your high-range hearing may be restricted to 8K Hz which explains your liking for 100K Oms Resistance loading for all your MM cartridges. It also probably explains your liking for those screechy MM cartridges like the AT-20SS and Signet TK-10ML....AND your preference for MC cartridges and Digital?! |
Dear @lewm : " via a Youtube quality recording of playback? I am dubious. " Of course you are rigth. About the undamped ( because is not damped at the bearing, that grease was and has not that fuction. ) subject is very easy to be aware if you own a true damped/resonances’s killer as a tonearm to make comparisons. No one of your tonearms has that design characteristic in the way I’m talking about and in other side your priorities are not exactly as my priorities. Some of us are more tolerant with some music/audio characteristics than others or for whatever reasons some of us are more sensitive to be aware of some kind of resonances/vibrations/noise or some kind of distortions. Added to those each one of us ( I hope. ) have our dedicated and self trained for it test/evaluation/comparison whole proccess and this subject could makes some differences in what each one of us are or not aware of some music/sound listening system characteristics. Your new audio item tells you something of my very low tolerance levels and as that that to tigth/low tolerance levels by my self happens all over each single link in my room/audio system and that evaluation whole proccess I talk about comes according what I’m telling here and at least with that tiny example you have on hand. Other thing is that my target " truer to the recording " makes things different from yours. Remember that what microphones in the recording proccess are " seated " a really nearfield distance from the source where music is agressive and brigth not soft or organic or or other audiophile adjectives that all are wrong adjectives. My room/audio system is voiced according that target and till today no one that listening to it never had any single complaint, people ranginging from music lovers, audiophiles, music players and even " gurus/experts " and rookies too. Still working to be nearer to that target that inrinsically permit you to be nearer to the live event. I’m lucky to learned all what leave me to stay HERE today and still learning every single day. I never stay sticky with nothing but MUSIC and nothing less than MUSIC and its meaning. R. |
About the undamped ( because is not damped at the bearing, that grease was and has not that fuction. ) subject is very easy to be aware if you own a true damped/resonances’s killer as a tonearm to make comparisons. No one of your tonearms has that design characteristic in the way I’m talking about and in other side your priorities are not exactly as my priorities. He's still doing it......blah, blah, blah But NEVER proving anything. Let's HEAR these tonearms without the resonances in your 'superlative' system..... Instead of BS babble......make the videos! Make the videos.....make the videos...... It appears to the world that you're scared sh..less 🤣 And you have good reason to be.......👺 |
What an impressively massive conversation! It took me a month to just scan it. My interest in vintage cartridges is based on availability of advanced technologies in the 80s that are not really available today as well as excellent prices you can often get these gems for. My current stable is: Koetsu Rosewood Long Body Audio Technica AT33e Technics EPC-P205cMK3 Technics EPS-310MC Realistc RXT6 JICO SAS Grado Prestige Gold P-Mount Tables are Sony PS-FL77s and FL1, as well as Rega P9 and Pioneer PL-L800. Phono stages are PS Audio, Musical Fidelity, LCR units from the middle kingdom, all in pairs. Amplification is Emotiva pre and 4 monos driving Eminent Technology 8Bs, monos with balanced tube buffers using Marantz 7 ciecuit. Pair of inexpensive HSU Research subs. |
Dear @dimitry : Welcome a board. You have a very nice audio system and those inexpensive HSU are very good. HSU are or were very well regarded subs dasigns not only for home systems but for proffesional market.Your 205MK3 is very good and the MK4 is a little better and the last top MM cartridge by this manufacturer. On the LOMC try to find out from them too its vintage design 305MK2 in stand alone version. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
Thank you, Raul. My interest in having different tables and cartridges is to experience differences in sound, as opposed to "seeking the best." After 30+ years in this hobby, i seek a range of expression. Hence i decided i need a great vintage AT moving coil, Shure moving magnet, an original Koetsu, etc. I also have a Soundsmith Boheme and a great vintage BO table (in the basement system) with a fully rebuilt MMC1. They all sound different and its both fun and educational to listen to the same recording on several front ends. |
Halcro, If there were deficiencies in the FR tonearm vs the Dynavector, would they be audible via a Youtube quality recording of playback? I am dubious. Isn't that typical of a certain type of audiophile....? Let's NOT believe what we can hear and see......let's rather believe what someone hypothesises (without any evidence).....because then I also can hypothesise without any evidence 🤗 |
About the undamped ( because is not damped at the bearing, that grease was and has not that fuction. ) subject is very easy to be aware if you own a true damped/resonances’s killer as a tonearm to make comparisons. No one of your tonearms has that design characteristic in the way I’m talking about and in other side your priorities are not exactly as my priorities. Ok...so let's get this straight..... When Raul says that tonearms need to be damped to stop resonances and vibrations.....he means that EVERY tonearm (whether damped or not) resonates and vibrates unless they are special 'killer' tonearms with SPECIAL damping that only Raul knows about. So faced with a myriad of my videos (all with resonating and vibrating tonearms)....this self-taught 'Master Audio Guru' can't point to a single example where we can actually HEAR these resonances and vibrations? And Lewm prefers to accept that they are not audible via the Youtube videos....but they ARE there if Raul says so..... And yet....and yet.....he refuses to upload any videos of his 'perfect' system to demonstrate to all of us, what a 'killer' tonearm sounds like? And we all sit back and swallow this garbage.....? Raul has been banned from every Audio Forum on the planet (except this one) because he is a self-righteous bully and egomaniac. Even Michael Fremer has banned him from his Analogue Planet Blog with the epithet...."SO IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE TECHNICS AND YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME, YOU ARE LEFT ONLY BELIEVING YOU AND YOU ARE CLEARLY OUT OF YOUR GOURD." |
LOL. Raul & Halcro need to get a room :-) Raul prefers neutral to slightly lean cartridges Halcro prefers slightly relaxed to warm cartridges. All it seems to reflect is listening bias combined the neutrality or warmth of the amp/speaker interface in one’s system. Personally, my amps are slightly warm so I prefer my seasoning not be in cartridges - like them neutral, fast and dynamic like most music I play. |
@halcro While I admire your enthusiasm to put up videos of youtube of your system, your methodology of using a phone to record your system will not do any justice to really apreciate the fine nuances of your cartridges or specific arm resonances of your analog setup. Here are a couple of examples of needledropers using a Tascam DA 3000 recorder, connected to the output of the phonostage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y72SZFJHvpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60D3MFgBJyk BTW the Tascam da 3000 is about 1000 dlls on Amazon, Is peanuts money compared to the rest of your setup. |
Trav, congrats on the new MFG-610LX. Chak, First correcting my little typos, of course I´m talking about GLANZ MFG-310LX (actually my first Line Contact cart in the early 80´s, very good sound way back btw, no listening fatigue which´s always a good sign) and my current and enjoyable MFG-51L w/ tapered aluminium cantilever + Line Contact. You obviously seem to understand my statement nevertheless. Anyway, as seen in Chak´s pics the MFG-51L has thinner and smaller and lighter cantilever than the cheap MFG-310LX. And is in other SQ level, way better. Basic audiophilia in technical terms. Chak, look at the pics very carefully you just posted. I owe a Micro Ridge "MR-100" stylus for my ASTATIC MF-100 cartridge. Naturally it´s way better than your "similar" Pyramidian 71L. You really are a funny guy because you actually say my sample is not what I say about. I can hear a difference Shibata vs Micro Ridge, I always prefer Micro Ridge. I also can hear a difference Shibata vs Line Contact. Some other audiophiles here on A´gon also can. But you cannot. Btw, to me Shibata is somewhat smooth and nice but not accurate as Micro Ridge and Line Contact. You have compared all other GLANZ/ASTATIC carts to your MFG-61 ? Of course they all are inferior. But you have no idea what my MF-100 let alone MF2500 is capable of because you have NOT heard them. Your comments about comparing say an MF-200 is the same as an MFG-310LX actually means nothing."No difference in sound" is not true, and to me it´s rubbish. Well, seems to me your 100 kOhm setting must twist you judgements. Like it almost did mine a few years back. Now I use 20-30K, 47K max. According to the manual, the MFG-71L has flattest FR and lowest VTF of all the MFG-XXX series. What is your MFG-61´s VTF, surely is 1.00 - 1.50 g, optimum 1.25 g ? What is FR flatness, tolerance ? For the best it must have the best specs as well. Let us know. You are so obsessed/biased to cantilever material/stylus shape that you have lost your common sense. It´s just one part of cart mythology. Cart´s performance level depends on various factors, and the most important is the deck itself, all the turntable construction defines a cartridge´s potential. Try to find an MF2500, you have another hard job. It´s rarer than Hente´s teeth. |
Dear @harold-not-the-barrel : It's useless to explain nothing when some one just can't understand what other people said when not even can read in focus what they read. Take a look what in 2015 that same person in this same thread posted and my answer about and today 4 years latter still is sticky to his not a misunderstood but to that " just does not understand nothing ". And I have several examples coming from that person with similar results ? ? ? ? ? ! ! : " The Astatic mf 200 equal to Glanz mf 31L is a good one, This is only my suggestion. Since these brands are clones of each other, ........................... The Astatic mf 200 equal to Glanz mf 31L is a good one, ...... """" Where do you read or who told you that Astatic cartridges are clones of the Glanz? In my understood Astatic ( that's a very old corporation. ) only took the Glanz patent ( moving flux. ) and that's all about. The " clone " you name it: MF 200/ mfg 31L is a good example that those cartridges are not clones. The output level on both cartridges is different 4.2mv vs 3.5mv. Inductance 90 vs 110. VTF: 1.75grs vs 1.25 grs. Cartridge weight: 6grs vs 5.5grs. Frequency response: 10hz to 20khz vs 20hz to 20khz with a 2 db deviation in both cases and I can go on with those differences. As you can see far away to be clones. The Astatic MF 2500 was an earlier cartridge than the MF 100/200, even its inductance value is different in between and IMHO the 2500 is the best performer in the Astatic catalog. As I said Astatic is an old and experienced corporation and did not to copy/clone Glanz in the way you posted. """ Coil windings, materials used, coupling mechanisms and output are distinct across them. """ raul A few days ago I posted what Steve/vetterone posted years ago that confirms what I said 4 years ago. As I said useless and futile to explain about because there is no understanding capacity . Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
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@cardani, Of course I'm aware of the direct high-res uploads available with devices like the Tascam that you recommend (thank you).... My intentions for the video uploads are not to get a direct feed from the cartridge/tonearm/turntable combination (which is tantamount to a headphone listening experience)....but to try to simulate the actual listening-room experience of the whole hi-fi system. With your direct feed suggestion......one is not hearing the effects of interconnects, amplifiers, speakers, room materials and boundaries, soundstage (side-to-side and depth) nor the significant effects that air-borne and structure-borne feedback have on the real listening experience within the real listening room. See how much information a trained musician like Frogman is able to discern from listening to my Youtube videos..... https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/hear-my-cartridges |
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This is RAUL'S TURNTABLE The Acoustic Signature Analogue One Mk II Now you may ask......why Mk II? Because Mk I found it impossible to maintain correct and constant speed. So Mk II was introduced to try to correct this 'oversight'.... It also failed creating the necessity for Mk III...😱 Of all the inept belt-drive turntables which flooded the world in the post-Linn boom.....the Acoustic Signature was probably one of the saddest. |
Why is 'correct' and 'constant' speed so important in a turntable? To quote from the late Peter Moncrief:-
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Because Raul is too afraid to post videos of his System....you can hear what his turntables sound like here... ACOUSTIC SIGNATURE ANALOGUE ONE Mk III |
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@halcro "With your direct feed suggestion......one is not hearing the effects of interconnects, amplifiers, speakers, room materials and boundaries, soundstage (side-to-side and depth) nor the significant effects that air-borne and structure-borne feedback have on the real listening experience within the real listening room" If i want to really listen to the to the specific analog setup (cart,arm,TT and phono pre) I would stick to the "Direct feed "methodology. I agree with frogman coment,s on the description of your system as a whole, and you can get a general idea of what the system will sound like, the ear-brain makes up for it (phsycoacoustics). Its a superb high end system in a living Room ( with its compromises, like the leather chair in front of your speaker direct axis ) just as Raul system is also a superb system in his living room with its compromises ( coffee table in front of the sweet spot) . In both of your cases I still feel the direct feed is a better evaluation methodology for the anaolg front end,s. Now, I you want a better AV recording of your whole room-system I would suggest a zoom recorder which at least gives you 16/44 pcm resolution mounted on a tripod at your sweetspot. |
Personally i don’t trust OP’s recommendations in this thread anymore, he slagged off his own choice of excellent cartridges many times over the years, so in my opinion every cartridge claimed to be "the best" by him must be avoided nowadays, because next year he will say it was the bad ones and will "promote" something else with his special "reviews" written especially to sell what he's got (and listen to digital which he claimed to be superior to analog). A person who keeps posting that "Astatic is an old corporation and not copied Glanz" don't even understand that the patent for unique Moving Flux technology belog to its creator Mr. Tsugikuma Minamizono (Japan) and all cartridges designed by Mitachi Corp., (not by Astatic and not by Glanz). Mitachi is OEM of both, they are designed and made everything which was branded Astatic, Glanz, Jamo, Azzurra ... you name it! It doesn't matter how old is Astatic or Jamo or Glanz, because Mitachi Corporation invented and made all MF cartridges for everybody with very tiny difference between them. Without Mitachi Corporation in Japan Astatic could not make a Moving Flux cartridge. This is fact! Face it. The biggest difference compared to all of them is ONLY the Glanz 61 (and 610LX) wich have completely different cantilever (and completely different stylus on 61). The rest of the models are based on the same Mitachi design. Moving Flux invented in Japan, not in Canada and not by Astatic. |
@halcro. Yes sure, I have heard several times Raúl, s system, through out the last 10 years. He has been very kind to invite me over several times I have happend to visit Mexico City. (I live in Xalapa) about 400 km from him. Yes I can say it’s a superb sounding system, considering it,s domestic living room enviorment. Thanks to him I have been able hear top cartridges like Allaerts, Dynavector Xv1, and several others. About your comment or concern of speed stability in his Acoustic signature tables I have not noticed any flaws with pitch, every time I have heard them they are spot on; and I,m quite sensitive to pitch being myself a profesional doublebassist in one of the better orchestras here in Mexico. |
@Halcro here is a link of a Zoom cámara that could be a improvment for your system videos for around 200 dlls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yNk2ZhKkXo&feature=share |
Dear @cardani : " with its compromises, like the leather chair in front of your speaker direct axis ) just as Raul system is also a superb system in his living room with its compromises ( coffee table in front of the sweet spot) """ Very good point on what the video says like does chairs that makes the very first speaker reflections but the metal/glass table is a huge one compared with mine that’s ow wood material with a cotton carpet and like one third/fourth lower size. But Cardani do you know where are those system Halcro subwoofers?, yes that’s rigth in the worst place to have it and ask him what and at what distance from his chair listening position is what exist behind it. As you know here in our country people say ( not as an insult but friendly. ) when a politician or any one else " attack " to other person that : """ that person has tail ( in this case: very long tail. ) step on /walk on "" and the other one: " a donkey talking of " ears " " @cardani , do you think that as he posted that a person ( me ) that only can listen to 8khz can build a room/system with the quality levels you listen at my place several times? @halcro not only my Acoustic Signature Analogue MK2 units has no single sign of speed unstability ( never ) but no one of my DD TTs neither. Btw, Cardani is not only a symphonic orchestra active player but a young man too with excellent " ears " and his classical music conservatory studies he did it not only in México but at foreigner countries. @halcro he never listened my room/system at near field seated position and he never listened any signgle digital recording trhough my system. When we meet at my place we stay a few hours listening not only classical MUSIC but jazz/blues female singers and like this last time the drums on the Pamarita LP recording: impressive for say the least. I always learn " something " with Cardani and this last time when we were listening to Gary Karr LP ( Albinoni's Adagio. ) recording that is the instrument Cardani plays I told you that the GC instrument that was a gives for him was an Amati and GC thougth the same by him self but it’s not an Amati but a very good French instrument. Cardani has all the details about. Btw, @cardani could you tell to all these audiophiles how do you compare my room(system quality performance against a system you listened that has first rate and very expensive audio items as YG speakers and Gryphon electronics? Thank’s you to joined us. Till next time. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
@cardani , Thank you for the Link to the Zoom Q2n recorder. I've ordered one and am excited about the improvement potential over the humble iPhone microphone..... I'm also impressed to learn you are a trained musician and particularly trained on the double bass......one of my favourite instruments 🤗 I don't doubt your 'ears' and hearing ability and it's gratifying to me, to have not one....but two trained classical musicians describe my System as "superb" just by hearing it over YouTube videos with all the inherent limitations 🙏🏽 You can perhaps imagine how much better it really sounds 'in situ'...👍 This particular discussion began when Raul, here on this Thread, described my System as "mediocre"..... Your description.....having heard Raul's.....serves to illustrate that Raul is wrong (again) and had no idea what my system sounds like, despite proclaiming that he did over many years 🤥 The fact that you can hear no 'resonances', 'ringing' or 'vibrations' from the undamped (and damped) tonearms employed in all the videos.....demonstrate that Raul's perennial claims about the 'ringing, undamped FR-64/66S tonearms are also wrong!! As you have rightly pointed out....the Youtube videos can hardly do justice to the actual experience of hearing a particular System. That's why I have challenged Raul to a one-on-one Youtube comparison between both our Systems. As you and Frogman agree.....a great deal can still be discerned despite the limitations? As you are well versed in the recording and uploading aspects associated with making such videos.....perhaps you might be so kind to offer your expertise in making some of Raul's System? At least that way, we will have a direct comparison between the two (complete with their compromises)....😃 Once again @cardani....it was a pleasure to read your contributions and I sincerely hope some more will be forthcoming 🤗 And thanks again for the recording advice you gave me.... Regards Henry |
This Post was written a week ago but could not be Posted due to A'Gon technical problems... Lewm, I also wondered whether YouTube videos could convey the ’true’ sound of a HiFi system in a meaningful way until I went to THE Show in Munich 2017 where my iPhone videos of various rooms reflected quite accurately the ’sound’ I had actually experienced. Of course the ’real’ experience within the actual listening room is far better in terms of:-
Just read what a trained musician like Frogman was able to discern from my videos on THIS THREAD. And Raul (don’t forget)....has ’trained’ himself to hear every detail and every nuance from any system within 30 seconds.... Moreover.....he is able to ’pinpoint’ WHERE the flaws and problems lie within a system. For years he has claimed to know exactly what my system sounds like yet when faced with the actual sound via the videos......where is he???!! Do you imagine for one instant that Raul can match the ability of Frogman (who has REAL training)? His silence speaks volumes.... And his reluctance to post videos of his system on YouTube is an admission to the fact that his system is less than mediocre.... His ROOM is a disaster (no wonder he has to listen ’near-field’), the RACKS on which his turntables sit are an embarrassment to anyone who knows the importance of ’isolation’ for a turntable. His phono/line preamp is an amateurish ’garage-built’ joke which only 3 people bought (and subsequently sold)... But most importantly.....his TURNTABLES (Acoustic Signature Analogue One MkII) are two of the worst belt-drive turntables ever made. They cannot maintain accurate speed...nor even CONSISTENT speed. With the Timeline Test...it is all revealed Forget playing with two or three tonearms at the same time.....his AS Analogue One can’t even maintain speed with ONE arm. THIS is what his turntables sound like...... And we’ve all been taking this ’Guru’ seriously for all these years.....🤣 |
Let me try to put this damped/undamped debate to rest. I am an MIT trained aerospace engineer with over 30 years experience in R&D. Undamped systems have higher amplitude ringing (high Q), but very narrow power bandwidth. Damped systems exhibit lower amplitude but wider frequency response in their peaks. Theoretically, damped systems offer lower energy transfer, because some energy is transferred to heat. However, in most practical systems, the heat energy loss fraction is low. Also, the presence of damping implies exta mass, which by definition lowers the resonance frequency. At the end of the day, undamped systems offer higher frequency/higher amplitude/narrow bandwidth response, while damped systems have lower frequency/lower amplitude/wide bandwidth response. Both methods can be used to achieve superb sound. Rega is an example of high stiffness/low damping approach, while Well-Tempered and many others is an example of a damped design. |
halcro over the years I have turn to this very pleasant thread to learn and enjoy. Raul has motivated me to buy some excellent cartridges which have improved my system and saved me money. IT'S A HOBBY- CAN I PLEASE ENJOY IT?? There must be other places you can peddle that anger. PLEASE. To others- if you ignore this guy he may go away after a while. The reason I don't post is that I'm not much of an expert and everything you say is subject to attack and ridicule- audiophiles in person are almost always respectful and pleasant (except for the occasional salesman that tells you everything you have is trash and you must buy HIS stuff). Anonymity has bred contempt and arrogance. Thanks, Raul, for having shown me a world where I can actually afford 8 cartridges that are fabulous, fun, and unique. I am still not an expert but I have learned and most importantly ENJOYED! Isn't that the idea?? -Raul (another one, not you) |
@manorraul , Thank you for your plea to "peddle my anger" elsewhere..... Just for my information.....where is your same plea to Raul for his anger, humiliation, insults and degradation to dozens of Posters here on A'Gon over the years....?
And these snippets from Raul are just in 2019.......... Go back another 10 years and compile your own dossier of 'bile and anger'..... Or is there a different 'standard' that you reserve for your 'beloved' Raul? |
Dear @manorraul : " The reason I don’t post is that I’m not much of an expert ... " this is not a forum ( Agon. ) for experts but one where each one of us can learn every single day. To achieve that each one of us needs to be willing to learn because if we don’t have it then we can’t do it. So you don’t be afraid to post, just do it in any thread. No one of us know everything about evry audio/mUSIC subject. Always exist persons as this Halcro with a way different attitude but not only that but that just can’t understand or read perfectly what is in the posts coming from almost every one. He had several years ( I don’t know why. ) trying to hit me at any price, trying to gain credibility ( that he has not. ) attacking me but because he has no facts and low overall knowledge levels he never had/has success and always finishs/finished our " dialogues " totally frustrated. But seems to me that he like, again and again, to hit him self. Even he lost everytime due that I use his words/posts and videos with what he can win, so before he starts his " battle " already is defeated by him self, go figure ! I’m not started yet with him this time, I will do when I have the time because is boring to , again and again, write low knowledge levels. Unfortunatelly he always comes back for more. Thank’s for your kindness words and the post where he gave you an answer is part of his game. Each one of those comments by my self has an specific reason/facts and people that received it is because deserve it. You can ask Halcro that he shares with you those threads for you can attest what I posted here. The other problem with this person and other one out there is not only to hit me/attack me but to win the " dialogue " and both do not understand that they never can win . The only thing I " admire " from them is their " constant insistence " to lost. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
Hi Raul and Kravi4ka. Thanks again for the wonderful thread. Can you please tell me, you or someone else, if the B&O mmc4 is a good choice, or the MMC20E ? Actually guys, not that we needed another layer on this cake, B&O Cartridges are not MM nor are they MC. They are MI - Moving Iron. MMC standing for Moving Micro Cross. That said, they are high output, and for all intents & purposes, should be considered an MM. It should be noted that the MMC4 & MMC20E have different tonearm mountings and are not interchangeable. They are both a few notches down the Totem Pole from the top of the line MMC20CL and MMC2 / MMC1. Other than the casings and mountings, these Cartridges all share identical Fixed Coils, Laser bored Sapphire Cantilevers and Nude Contact Line Styli. The MMC1 & the MMC20CL have identical Tec Specs. All 3 are serious stellar performers and worthy of a listen. Thanks for the great thread Raul. |
Dear @halcro : This is only as an " aperitif " , my overall dialogue with you will comes latter: you took this statement from one of my posts here trying to following your ridculous " attack ": " In other threads you and me already had several dialogues about with facts why is a mediocre system. Starting with your room, followed by the subs room position and that non reference phonolinepreamp. """ I can add that big metal/glass table and those chairs exactly at the speakers/high frequencies side and first reflextions and followed for what you have at less that one meter behind your seat position. Can you share with all the gentlemans in this thread where are your subs in the room and its playing range frequency and the playing frequency in your speakers? Now, through your ipod you try to say that your room/system is not a mediocre/average one comparing two different LP recordings ( btw, that Albinoni’s Adagio was the same LP @cardani listened last time at my place. ) with two different cartridges in two different tonearms and by coincidence in that SAEC 8000 you are using its dedicated ceramic headshell that you in this forum agree with me that is " terrible/bad " headshell material for say the least . ! ! ! ? ? ? ? Yes, you have the shorter bad memory shorter time I’m aware from every person in this forum. Btw, how any one could has an idea of any system with your videos with two cartridges in two tonearms that maybe no one owns or listen to it before? how they can compare ir to its true and real quality performance levels of each cartridge? how? So, with all those you are trying that I take you seriously?, well I will do but according the very low knowledge levels you are showing in this and other threads. Nothing I said here is a lier but your words or posts. See you latter. R. |
@halcro good to know that you order the Zoom recorder, they are quite good and economic, i have the older model Q3 . I am far from being "welll versed" or having any sort of "expertice" in recording . But those simple recomendations of the Zoom or Tascam recorders you will sure enjoy them. Concerning my comment of your system where I mentioned "Its a superb high end system in a living Room ( with its compromises, like the leather chair in front of your speaker direct axis ) just as Raul system is also a superb system in his living room with its compromises ( coffee table in front of the sweet spot). I use the term supeb to denote the your highly regarded gear: Halcro electronics, Dynavector 507,denon Dp80 etc.. and how by the use of a phone recording you were compromising the final production of your youtube videos. I also mention the inverse leather chair in the middle of the speakers and the implicit acoustic compromises to encourage you to do the "direct feed " method of recording from preamp output. Just as the needle dropers from the links I posted, In which one of them achieves a great production with a modest Technics sl1200 and an ortofon M series cartridge. I want to mention again that when I have heard Raul system through several sessions with non of his TT i,ve noticed any speed stability issues , and that includes his Acoustic Signatures, M. Seiki 5000 and a Luxman (can,t remember the model). I know in the past he has had 3 Technics sp10 which are highly regarded for speed stability which i can attest since i also own one that i recently bought. So I have no reason to think that there is a an issue with speed stability otherwise Raul would have dissmissed them right away. Anyhow I hope you both calm down and stop attaccking each other, this is a hobby, and let,s get back on track with this intresting MM thread. |