chakster
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| Best cartridge <$200? @chaksterYou are correct regarding the need to use advanced stylii, however your statement regarding compliance is an over-simplification.But most MM are mid or high compliance by default. And most of the vintage MM are high compliance. However, m... | |
| Absolute Monster SAM Turntable With their earlier model of SAM I think guys are inspired by Micro Seiki. | |
| Best cartridge <$200? Sumiko Pearl is nothing special, it seems like you don’t want to learn a bit about stylus profiles and cantilevers. You will not hear anything close to digital in terms of resolution if you will use donded elliptical stylus, it will be a muddy sou... | |
| Need some turntable guidance I’m listening to Eric Clapton Steppin’ Out on Decca FFSS using my Denon DP-1250 with a Magnepan Unitrac 1 tonearm and a Grado Reference Platinum cartridge as I type this. I’m waiting on getting my spindle rewired from ET and some new belts for the... | |
| Need some turntable guidance I'm not into vintage for the sake of vintage, most of my stuff was fairly current when I bought it (been doing this a long time). I wouldn't be looking to ditch the VPI for older DD or idler wheel tables.chakster:Thanks for the info. You're we... | |
| Rega planar 25/rb600 cartridge recommendations Use the Denon and just add some mass to the tone arm You can’t add 10-15g mass to the tonearm to make a low compliance cartridge like Denon 103 optimal for this lightweight modern tonearm. Even if you will add some mass you will have some problem... | |
| Need some cartridge advise please. Unfortunately all dealers have very limited choice of cartridges these days. Their margine is huge on LOMC and very little of MM, guess what they are pushing? | |
| TT or Cartridge...what to buy? Thanks for the input but I’m not really a fan of Direct Drive tables. I know they are highly recommended but to me it is more of a DJ style table then what I want. I hope not every DD turntable look like a "DJ turntable" for you, because they are... | |
| Best cartridge <$200? While my digital music collection numbers in the tens of thousands of tracks, my vinyl collection is quite modest (50 or so albums). As a result, I’ve never invested much in my TT setup. You have to invest in analog and you need a better turntabl... | |
| TT or Cartridge...what to buy? Look for used Technics SL1200G (price for new one is about $3900) and if you can find it for $3k (used) buy yourself a NOS Pickering XSV/4000 cartridge which is wonderful for this turntable. If you want an MM cartridge with superb stylus profile t... | |
| AT-ART9 cartridge on Marantz TT-15s1 - I don't think I'm getting the performance I should You have to buy Hi-Fi NEWS TEST LP and CARDAS FREQUENCY SWEEP LP. Both records will help you to test your cartridge properly, you will see what is the resonance frequency of your arm/cart, you can check and adjust anti-skating, there is a good tes... | |
| Rega planar 25/rb600 cartridge recommendations @skipper320 Looking at a grace f9e sold one last month, still have original styli. In my opinion the Victor X1IIe surpass Grace F9e in everything. Victor is a mid compliance MM with titanium pipe cantilever and elliptical tip. Grace compliance i... | |
| Rega planar 25/rb600 cartridge recommendations Denon low compliance MC on Rega tonearm with 9-10g effective mass?This is not good, you need a 30g effective mass tonearm for Denon 103 for optimal performance. You need a mid compliance MM/MI for this tonearm. Which Grace are you looking for ? | |
| Need some turntable guidance I bought the Supex cartridge as NOS a few months before I stored the system, and looking at it under a microscope, it looks fine. The Grado does not have a user replaceable stylus assembly, but it too looks good. Then you're good.Grado can do ... | |
| Need some turntable guidance I’d like to "modernize" my system a little bit, but as a record collector, my initial focus is on the turntable. I’ve been looking around, and seems I have several options. As a record collector you have to focus on your stylus profile if you don... |