chakster
Responses from chakster
| Dynavector Karat 17D3: retip for $500 or get something new? Why would someone with obviously that kind of disposable income retip a cartridge when they can just buy a new one and anything they would want under the sun? Because some people really like what they have and they want to stick with it. I can’t ... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 My idea was to mount EPA-100 mkII on Victor TT-101 sooner or later | |
| A pitch too High! chakster, so your saying that replacing the stylus with XTZ on a $200.00 Prestige cartridge will out perform a $600.00 Sonata? I am not familiar with Sonata, but I have the original Grado XTZ, it was Joseph Grado signature model, his best ca... | |
| Schiit Sol turntable owners out there? You could read what I asked instead of cut and paste one frase @mr_m Why modern belt drive turntables are all look a like ? Here is Simon Yorkee design | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 Professional 100PN version is quite interesting: | |
| Turntable and cartridge setup known for a marvelous bottom end. I think there is nothing below 20Hz on vinyl record. | |
| A pitch too High! Spending $150.00 to retip a $250.00 cartridge seems a little nutty to me. Why not just wait and upgrade to a better cartridge? I had the $600.00 Grado and on certain records, it performed well above what one might expect for that price range. I s... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 If your EPA-100 is nearly impossible to get to hold balance and moves around on air currents in a seemingly completely still room, then there’s an excellent chance it’s still in great shape. If not, it could be a lot better. Yeah, I remember th... | |
| Schiit Sol turntable owners out there? This is what you like? This school of design is what I don't like, unfortunately so many modern belt drive turntables are like this And this is a proper design of belt drive turntables from the past: | |
| Turntable and cartridge setup known for a marvelous bottom end. Some of the best MM cartridges from the dolgen age of analog can reproduce bass from 5Hz, I doubt there is anything like that on the record, but if you will look at the specs of the Audio-Technica AT-ML170 or 180 you will see frequency response of... | |
| A pitch too High! Why do you guys want me to buy a new Grado stylus. Are you assuming the stylus may be damaged? A few bounces across a record can damage a stylus is it. ? Thought it was made of tougher stuff. Though sound wise I don’t have an issue right now. I t... | |
| Tonearm for Technics SP-15 @elliottbnewcombjr you have to make sure about the bearings, loose bearings must be avoided. @billwojo epa-100 can be found in perfect condition and you don’t need a pepair "guru" if you will buy a perfect sample. Broken samples must be avoide... | |
| Cost of Turntable vs. cost of Phono Stage Cost is nothing, for a single turntable you can easily find great mm/mc phono stage for very modest cost, it will be a box with one input and mm/mc switch. A phono stage like this will cost no more than $700-1000 (like JLTi with RCA plug load resi... | |
| Ikeda 407 Tone Arms - New or Vintage The difference between FR/IKEDA and some other tonearms is Dynamic VTF, so the counterweight position is always at the balance point depending only on cartridge/headshell weight. If you have small (stock) counterweight with lightweight cartrid... | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges I remain solidly in the LOMC camp but the MFG 61 and a handfull of other vintage carts still have my highest respect. @xactaudio Mr. Dobbins, is that you ? I did not use my MF-61 for a long time, but 5-7 years ago it was my favorite cartridg... |