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| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? Where is marketing here? Namiki supply materials (cantilevers) for cartridge designers, not for the users. Every cartridge designer must have a choice, nowadays the choice is limited. No more boron pipe, no more beryllium, no more ceramic. Boron R... | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? For "her" diamonds or rubies are preferable | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 Nanda you have to decide for yourself after your own experience with those tonearms and different cartridges. FR66s is not $4k tonearm, it’s twice as much in price. This is a high mass tonearm for low compliance cartridges. If you already have 64s... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS Sadly Miyabi 47 and its predecessors MCA,Standard also discontinued, but this is not the reason to ignore them. New Current Injection phono stages still available from several manufacturers for much higher price than my 47 Labs | |
| New Zirconia Pipe Cantilever .. What's up with that ? From the web about material:Zircon, zirconia and zirconium - what's the difference?Zircon, zirconia and zirconium are similar sounding and sometimes confused. What are they and what are the differences between them?1) Zircon ****The primary minera... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS @nandric used 47 Labs phono cube goes for $1500 minimum, new it was very expensive device. Phono cube itself is very compact, but power supply is big and heavy, together it was about $3k new. This product is no longer available from 47Labs (discon... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS Dear chakster, May I conclude that you don’t own an phono-prewhich can drive outputs of, say, above 0,15 mV? I need myDenon transformer only for my Ortofon MC 2000 with 0,05 mV output. However lew(m) also mentioned an ’’current injection’’ type fo... | |
| New TT for ~$1500 You can read fremer’s review on Technics. Or watch this and compare :)) nothing wrong with a well designed 1500-2000 buck belt driven turntable! I have owned several in this price range and they all sounded great. "Sounded great" for you, but you... | |
| New TT for ~$1500 @crustycoot Don’t know enough to suggest a cartridge, but options abound. I use a vintage Grace F9 Ruby with great pleasure. This is very nice, but the stylus on original Ruby (RS9R) is elliptical. There are better profiles from Grace for F9, al... | |
| FIDELITY RESEARCH STEP-UP TRANSFORMERS FR-7f and FR-7fz are great cartridges for sure, when you’re using them on FR-64s tonearm you don’t have to adjust azimuth if the arm mounted on flat surface as it should be. I am not so concerned about silver phono cables, i have them too, but i l... | |
| Audiophile Albums....Yes indeed Michael Fremer's comment about this article and about negative comments HERE | |
| New TT for ~$1500 @audite84 Try the Hana EL. It is the new Denon 103 and considered to be better. Talking of vintage Technics cartridge, I bought a used EPC-205C MK3 with original stylus (still in good condition) a couple of years ago. This cartridge is very neutr... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower I see, the goal of Reed is that a mounting hole is not needed under this tonearm, it can be screwed to the flat surface with 3 mounting screws from the top. | |
| New TT for ~$1500 Matsushita Electric Industrial , now Panasonic, has more than 100 years of history. Technics is a part of Matsushita. It was and still is a huge company. This is the real deal. Long time ago people raved about Technics MM cartridges like this one,... | |
| Tonearm mount to the plinth vs arm board vs rotating arm board vs isolated tower Steve will tell you that the swiveling arm board is a compromise and is not optimum. It is a useful convenience feature. A very useful and very convenient feature but still a compromise. For optimum performance, he advocates mounting the tonearm... |