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Would Like To Hear From Strain Gauge Owners

I would like to hear from owners of Strain Gauge cartridges (particularly Soundsmith owners)as to how you like the strain gauge system compared to previous cartridges you have owned. Is there any drawbacks to the Soundsmith Strain Gauge system?

I am located in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Is there any Soundsmith Strain Gauge owners in the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana area?

I read the review of the Strain Gauge system on Audiogon by Vac man. It was a very good review and answered many questions for me. I would like to hear from others who also own strain gauge cartridges.

Thanks in advance for any info that you can give me.
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jloveys
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The interesting and innovative part of the SG is for me the synergy concept. For once a complete package includes the cartridge AND the matching phono preamp, totaly voiced for it. It is so difficult to find a phonopreamp that has the ideal load that it is a great thing that the cartridge designer voices the whole chain for better synergy at high level. Kondo has done that but a very high price.
jloveys
226 posts
 
Here in Europe we have Allaerts , in US you have Soundsmith. Both have made their experience in cartridge repair and rebuilding over the years, until time to have own cartridge lineup from previus experiences.I have the most reliable thoughts about those people who had so much experience about all the cartidges they had in their hands that we must give them an favourable advice how to build cartridge of the future.
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