chakster
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| Need some cartridge advise please. Mid mass tonerms designed for mid compliance cartridges.Genre of music doesn't matter at all, any good cartridge must reproduce all genres equally, if one cartridge reproduce rock better than jazz this cartridge is BS. If a cartridge can reproduce... | |
| FR64 cartridge suggestions Does anyone have a contact for "Tien" ?Maker of B-60 clone. who's got his email ? | |
| Help with turntable purchase Shure v15 the stylist may not have to be replaced. you never know, it's better to replace the stylus than your record collection :) | |
| Can a Hana SH cartridge be set up as either MC and MM? LOLHOMC vs. LOMC is a popular question now on audiogon. | |
| Can a Hana SH cartridge be set up as either MC and MM? The question is why did you buy HOMC cartridge if you have a good MC phono stage for LOMC ? | |
| Help with turntable purchase For your Shure: buy yourself a new JICO replacement stylus, look only for S.A.S. (Super Analog Stylus) with Micro Ridge tip. As for the amp you could buy same way (at an estate sale) a good looking vintage receiver with Phono input (MM) very cheap... | |
| Need some cartridge advise please. Dynavector KARAT17D2 mkII with 1.7mm Diamond cantilever and MicroReach stylus tip. Excellent for your tonearm! read about Dynavector philosophy in this interviewand my old thread on audiogon | |
| MM or HO MC Cartridge Choice-Input Please They do not make personal recommendations for any cartridges as far as i know, because this is personal preferences and you may not like what was recommended (and it’s normal).Never buy a High Output MC cartridges if you want a Moving Coil, in thi... | |
| What tonearm is recommended for the denon 103r I have managed to extract a bit more from it than I could from ART-9 by changing cartridge loading to a higher 300 Ohms. I don't understand how you can extract a bit more using Conical stylus instead of LineContact ? It's quite opposite direct... | |
| LP - first needle drop or 2nd or 3rd?? Quality of your needle is more important.You can’t record high resolution on CD, why not just WAV on hard drive in high res instead of 16 bit CD?Is it for your car stereo ? I can understand Vinyl to CD only if you copy somebody else record collect... | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? VPI is saying they can turn around the cartridge service with VDH in 2 weeks including shipping, which I find extraordinary How they can ship to Netherlands back and forth withing 2 weeks in covid-19 situation when 90% of the flights canceled ? D... | |
| SoundSmith Sapphire cantilever upgrade to CA Virtuoso? Maestro V2 or Zephyr MK III but why only these two ? | |
| Does it improve the sound of a MM or MI cartridge by playing it through a phono stage? Chakster, What you say may be true for you and me, but the OP is in need of some basic understanding before getting into the nuances of a 100K ohm load vs a 47K ohm load for MM cartridges. Right now he is fine with 47K as standard. And I must ... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 Rega is definitively not a table for somebody who likes tweaking and experimenting a lot ,however I totally buy into Roy Gandy's philosophy of rigidness and simplicity. Simplicity is VTA on the fly and any proper tonearm must have it, it is no... | |
| Mat for Rega P10 Rega Arm that does not allow VTA setting.....I have to stick to 1-1.5mm mats. Do they live in a different world at Rega ? I forgot about Rega philosophy. Tonearm without VTA settings is made ONLY for Rega Own cartridge ... Each time you change ... |