chakster
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| New TT for ~$1500 Chakster, I noticed you never recommend "Grado"; that’s my favorite cartridge, and I’ve tried many.@orpheus10That’s not true, maybe you missed my recommendations for Grado, find my grado between Pioneer PC-1000 mkII and Grace LEVEL II BR/MR. This ... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Sorry, no current pictures on-line chakster. I remember this Japanese super heavy stuff from Toho, i’d like to buy one of these for Victor TT-101 and Denon DP-80, tonearm base also looks very nice. Italian company Torqueo Audio introduced univers... | |
| Garrott vs Soundsmith ttocs1269 It's Australian brand with long history, Garrott brothers are legendary re-tippers for Decca and Koetsu owners. Their own cartridges are MM (Dynamic Coil) with very nice warm sound, advanced stylus profile (user replaceable). Garrott ... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? I tried many new cartridges up to $5000 price like this, no thanks. More happy to pay $1000 for some very interesting models (NOS). A cartridge with Titanium Pipe cantilever is very nice: Victor X-1IIe You know, i trust more to the companies like ... | |
| Garrott vs Soundsmith Here is my original Garrott P77 on Reed 3p tonearm, it was amazing combination. The P77i is improved version of the very popular Garrott Brothers cartridge, buy it, you can't go wrong with the Garrott! The price is great and not high when you will... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? Finally, why is it currently impossible to make the vintage type of cantilevers that you admire? Seems odd to me. @flatblackround 1) I wish to know why, before Zicronia Pipe appeared in the list of available cantilevers from Namiki and Ogura t... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? With all my respect to SoundSmith this is not the last brand in the world, i have far more interest in vintage cartridges from the giants of industry and their own research made when analog was a king (not digital). Most of them stopped making car... | |
| Ikea Eket shelves with a large vinyl collection? Ikea is the most popular shelves for record collectors worldwide. Everybody use them, they are cheap. Instead of one huge shelf you could use many smaller sections for safety reason. I am using 4 section models, two of them here on the right (earl... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS Denon 103 with conical tip in 2020 - are you serious ? You like rolled-off sound ? Frequency response of the silver SUT from Luxman is within 15hz - 100kHz is very good for vinyl. Distortion ration 0.003 %, step up ratio is from 1:10 to 1:32. Mult... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Not sure what is best for your turntable but in my experience you can get great results putting the tonearm on a tower separated from the platter/plinth. In fact I have the motor, flywheel, platter/plinth, & tonearm tower all separate. Each ... | |
| Micro Max 282 vs. Exclusive EA-10 The price for Micro MAX series is insane nowadays, it is interesting to read totally different opinion on the same tonearms from different users, here is the one from @opus111 from the first page of this thread: having owed both Max 282 and 237 m... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? I believe cantilever material has probably the least impact on cartridge performance. Stylus geometry and cartridge type I.e. MM, MI or MC, output and compliance are much more important. If all else is equal, I seriously doubt anyone could disting... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS It's better to plug/unplug not RCA connectors on the SUT side, but DIN connector on your tonearm when you want to switch from one to another. You just re-direct a cable (DIN) from one tonearm to another if needed. For this reason i designed custom... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS I am not going to get a single input step up transformer. I have what one will call a 'bijou' room so multi inputs are the 'way to go' for me. For this reason i have line preamp with 4 inputs, so i can connect different phono stages for my 4 ton... | |
| Micro Max 282 vs. Exclusive EA-10 Grace and Victor should be fine. I have NOS styli for both of them if you need a backup. BUT If you want something special for this Pioneer tonearm then look for Pioneer PC-1000 mkII cartridge, it was the best MM cartridge from Pioneer ever. Very ... |