chakster
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| Family Problems... Probably you don’t understand what is re-ripping. If only stylus tip was damaged then you need just new tip, but on aluminum cantilever stylus tip mounted with press-fit method. Re-tippers can glue a new tip, but it’s downgrade compared to press-f... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 My old pair of Technics SL1210 mk2 (heavily upgraded) is still here since 1995. Still perfectly working. Technics SP-10 mkII is what you need, this is what I bought for my High-End setup when I was bored with upgraded SL1210 mkII. My next one was ... | |
| Family Problems... Buy yourself a nice MM or MI cartridge with spare styli and simply change the stylus next time when someone will destroy it again. Do not use MC cartridge in your house (or remove it from the tonearm when you’re away). When one of my MC was destro... | |
| Cartridge recommendation please... pickering’s published specs say life 250-300 hours for their stereohedron stylus which is more in keeping with other specs, it is an ’advanced elliptical’ in my opinion. Pickering never published less than 1000 hrs life span for Stereohedron stylu... | |
| Problem with phono stage @lewm Nagaoka is Jeweltone in Japan, I hope this link will help a bit with info and tech specs for MP models. Use google translate or google chrome browser for automatic translation. | |
| Cartridge recommendation please... Look for Pickering XSV/3000 or XSV/3000SP cartridges for your tonearm, they are absolutely amazing for the money (between $300-450 for NOS if you are lucky). Pickering with higher number like XSV/4000 or 5000 are even better (but for double price)... | |
| Problem with phono stage The MP is Moving Permalloy, not exactly Moving MagnetFind the differenceHere is J.Carr comment about MP:"The operating principle would be that of a moving iron but with increased sensitivity, which could be used alternatively to increase output, r... | |
| Anyone tried the Ortofon Concorde century Cartridge? WTF? | |
| Favorite used tonearms under 1000 dollars Denon DA-401 | |
| Problem with phono stage You need a shielded phono cable for a phono stage (from your turntable to a phono stage). Phono cable is not a regular interconnect cable. | |
| Which vintage direct drive? Yeah, I assume they are JVC (not Victor) in Europe | |
| Which vintage direct drive? My particular TT101 works on 120V or 100V as selected at the transformer primary. Yet it is labeled “Victor”. The acronym JVC doesn’t appear anywhere. I’ve read that it was made for sale to American servicemen stationed in Japan, but that’s just f... | |
| Phono cartridge recommendations chaksterare they still making the at ml170? or are we chasing old stock units at this point?@jjss49 No, they don’t make it anymore. As you can read in my old sold listing the cantilever is Boron Pipe (Gold Plated), this type of cantilevers are no... | |
| Phono cartridge recommendations In your price range you can try to find NOS or MINT condition originals:Audio-Technica AT-ML170Pickering XSV/5000 Pickering XLZ/7500 Grace LEVEL II Ruby Victor X1II All modern MM and most of the MC simply can't compete with these cartridges.... | |
| Upgrade my tone arm? chakster, I love Reed arms. The 2G is a better design than the 3P. Both use the same tonearm wands of varying masses. The 2g is a neutral balance arm while the 3P is not. The 2G's vertical bearings are two points in the plane of the record (and ... |