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| When to change a cartridge? whart, 12,000 is a whole heaping lot of records! I can understand why you thinned them out. I have about a tenth that many, and that's a lot. Like most people, I will go back to certain records many times before I play a more obscure record. Some... | |
| When to change a cartridge? ghdprentice, what brand of streamers and DACs would you recommend to compare to analogue? I owned a Moon CD player that was fairly expensive and I did not like it at all. It exaggerated the midrange, sounding pretty good at first. It took me a lit... | |
| When to change a cartridge? whart, I wish I could warm to digital. Perhaps I have not spent enough $ on it. I recently bought the least expensive Moon (280D) streamer with DAC. I compared it against a $9K Linn and hardly heard any difference. When I put on a record (varying... | |
| When to change a cartridge? The guy at Phono Cartridge Retipping, a retipping place suggested by mofimadness, said that he would retip my EMT which has a "super fine line" stylus with a "medium fine line" stylus. He said, however, that the word "super" is subjective and his ... | |
| When to change a cartridge? 301oil, did you send your EMT cartridge back to Switzerland to have it refurbished? My online dealer gives a 20% discount for trade-in. I wonder if that would be just as good a deal, since I don't have to pay shipping both ways. Thanks. | |
| When to change a cartridge? unreceivedogma, I think air versus analytical instrument placement against a black background is one of the major breaks in the audiophile community. I go to live jazz and classical concerts and air is everything. A sax hovering in air, drums poun... | |
| When to change a cartridge? BTW, with this new amp change I am beginning to understand the difference between overly "analytical" systems in which the instruments are well separated, but they lack air. With my Hovland Radia, there is a definite separation between instruments... | |
| When to change a cartridge? whart, yes there are so many variables in improving a system. I inherited my Hovland Radia amp from an audiophile friend of mine who passed away. I was using a McCormack DNA-1 upgraded to the top level by Steve McCormack just a few years before I ... | |
| When to change a cartridge? elliottnewcombjr, thank you for that great diagram. It made the point clearly. | |
| When to change a cartridge? whart, thank you for your clear write-up. I hate to be the "real-world guy," but looking into VAS for retipping they quote four to eight weeks, with shipping probably more like six to ten weeks. I would not be able to tell if the retipped stylus s... | |
| When to change a cartridge? Viridian, sounds like a plan. I'll have it evaluated like I did with my 20-year0old amp. | |
| When to change a cartridge? Viridian, I think the salespeople at my online retailer told me that my stylus might even last up to 3,000 hours because of what you've said about its shape. Anyway, now that I know I can send it in and have a new stylus put on for about $400 to $... | |
| When to change a cartridge? Viridian, thank you for the in-depth article on stylus wear. There are a lot of variables involved, but one that is important to me is $ per hour a stylus costs, and also what my ear is hearing. The article mentioned female vocalists and how sibil... | |
| When to change a cartridge? inagroove, thanks for the suggestion. My system sounds great. I play all kinds of classical music, string quartets or bombastic pieces like Scheherazade that also has a very musical violin. I have pieces with fat-sounding violins and thin-sounding... | |
| When to change a cartridge? In regards to cleaning a cartridge, I once sent a Grado Reference into Grado because the cantilever had been bent by an errant hand. I am pretty sure Mr. Grado himself fixed the cartridge. One thing he told me was to stop using that gunk to clean ... |