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| Phono cartridge suggestions sought There is no new technology after Victor MC L-1000. So there is no need to look forward. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges I can't compare MM against Ikeda cartridges against MM -transient response and and fluency of orchestral passages is in another level.Thus if MC cartridge is in pair with any MM/MI cartridge I am skipping it.It's not limited to Ikeda - I like SPU ... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges That is good news, thank you Nandric, now I do have plan B. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges just try to push it a little bit more - up to 2,3-2,5g. It will be OK for you and your records. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges If to sum up records not convenient at all. Takes too much place and if to use cantileverless better no wraps and they have to be clean.Hard life. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges If you speak about Ikeda cantileverless yes it's difficult to get it as new. Mine CV had some distortion in left channel. Not much but after a while it was evident that I have to look for service. In Ikeda canleverless is you start to get distorti... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges nandric, my CV was rebuilt by my friend ~ 1 year ago, if Expert stylus will fail ask him: service et cartridgeretip dot com | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges As about suspension - EM has hollow white neoprene balls as part of suspension. Not balls to be exact it’s more looks like short white mushrooms.In my 9 CV it’s less complicated - no "mushrooms" present. Suspensions are different. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges My two cents about Ikeda 9 EMBetter than 9 CV. Different suspension design. Better sound. Very even and fluent. Even in mono mode :)Although as one channel shot (open coil), I'll see final image after repair.So will hunt next for 9 REX and FR-7f | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges IMO Ikeda took a as sample Empire tonearm and made it better. As I understood he have improved it further after Fidelity Research. So he was follower of Empire. As about geometry my Saec 308sx works with weird geometry. So to stick to geometry as... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Dear Nandric, if you mean Aidas brand cartridge, he's not Russian (I mean master) and it's mammoth tusk. If you do mentioned 9REX could you compare it with FR-7fz? Which VTF you use for 9REX? I will try to revive Ikeda 9EM soon. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges S4 headshell with which FR 4S was sold weights 14,5 g (or it was supplied with 19 g headshell???)So if roughly to evaluate FR-64S + 7f :35-14,5+30=50,5 eff mass, gSo if to go further and to compute desired resfreq [Hz] 9 - we are getting if t... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Question was about Benz and FR.7f and 7fz looks the same from compliance point of view. Although do you believe in these compliance figures?If to multiply compliance of given for 7f roughly by 2 in order to get 10 hz data we are getting 14 cu. | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Yes it is a lottery.Although 35 grams of effective mass is a lot for majority of modern cartridges. I don't own FR-F7f but my Ikeda 9 CV is low compliance. So low that I think it's close to Ortofon SPU and compliance figures are quite equal of o... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges if tonearm is FR64 S version FR-7f will be better match.in case of FR 64 fx both are good match. |