chakster
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| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Vintage DD turntables are definitely not the way to go. There may be some new ones that are fine I do not know. There certainly is no Technics turntable that I personally would bother with. For the most part they just dusted off the old designs wh... | |
| Mint LP Best Protractor The goal of Dr. Feickert NG is that it can be used for adjustment/alignment of ANY tonearm on ANY turntable and PS is measurable for all size of tonearms. Also using Feickert we can choose which alignment method we want to use (Baerwald, Lofgren o... | |
| Andy Kim - Needle Clinic It was the best explanation what is a third party re-tip and what's going on then you put a different cantilever instead of the original: When a Lyra cartridge that doesn't play or sound right is returned to us, and it can be brought back to app... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. @mammothguy54 When you address your message to someone directly, please mention it. In my opinion Rega is a crappy and overpriced belt drive turntable like almost all modern BD turntable in this price range, nothing can change my opinion about it.... | |
| MP150 or MP200 You know when someone mentioned vintage cartridges I thought of the same thing and up to where I know all cartridges must have some type of suspension as what then supports the cantilever .Case in point , the mentioned Sony cartridge , when I inve... | |
| MP150 or MP200 The mass of my Project 1 expression 2 carbon fiber tonearm is around 8.6 grams which I understand is on the medium side . It’s pretty light for a modern world of tonearms I like the MP110 very much . It’s a very coherent and controlled sound tha... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Now I have never used your Microseiki turntables but I find it interesting that their chief designer now makes only belt drive turntables. (Techdas)A thin platter and a rubber mat are not much for shielding. The best shield from magnetism is dista... | |
| MP150 or MP200 Sony XL-50 on its dedicated headshell is much better cartridge than Nagaoka MP-200.It is one of those cartridges that can be found today for reasonable price. If you have not seen a review for Sony I am not surprised, the XL-50 and XL-70 were the ... | |
| MP150 or MP200 You MP110 is entry level model with bonded elliptical diamond and aluminum cantilever.Higher model like MP200 comes with NUDE (not bonded) diamond and Boron cantilever. One of the reason the price is much higher. Never use youtube as reference in ... | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry You can end all the threads mentioning 4 cartridges:Denon 103 (MC) Hana (MC)Nagaoka (MM)Audio-Technica (MM) All of them are relatively cheap, affordable, not all of them are universal for all tonearms: Denon has the lowest compliance of them all a... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. @mijostyn Everything you posted has nothing to do with reality and I am tired to reply to all these nonsense coming from the belt drive owners who never tried a proper direct drive system. There are high torque direct drive and low torque direct d... | |
| MP150 or MP200 You can change the stylus, not a cartridgeGet better nagaoka stylus | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. @mammothguy64 So Chakster, then why is it that the vast majority of the most high-end turntables are belt drive? I welcome your explanation. There could be something to learn from it. In a wider perspective most of high-end turntables are Direct... | |
| Smoothest and best sounding turntable/cartridge combo up to $1600?? I hope he has something else now, this thread is from 2016 ! | |
| Cartridge Opinions - Sorry the Denon 103 is a pretty nice cartridge for the money. Its not perfect but it does many things very well sounding very natural on the right tonearm. There are many MM cartridge for nearly the same price with much better overall sound quality... |