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| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above removable head shell kills it for me. For you, but not for me, nearly all Japanese tonearms have a removable headshell (or even removable armtube with integrated headshell), it’s an amazing feature to swap cartridges for those who have many cartr... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Don’t overestimate the problem, nearly all modern cartridges are made for modern tonearm. Carts are mid compliance and tonearms are mid mass. Most of high compliance carts are high-end vintage MM and MI, most of low compliance carts are vintage MC... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? Me too | |
| Measuring "Stylus Drag" with the RPM Speed and Wow app Seriously, are you aware of this strobe control ? Any change in speed is immediately visible! If 33 1/3 rpm or 45 rpm rotation speed is not stable the dots on the strobe control are not stable too, very simple, and it was on Technics direct drive... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above About 10-11g if I remember correct (you can change it a bit with different headshells), $3k is a lot for a cartridge, you can buy amazing cartridges within $3k budget (including some killer NOS), just don’t buy a low compliance carts for this tone... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above You’d better try it yourself in your system (if you can compare both), but, again, if you want a better sound you just need a different cartridge for your G, not a different turntable. For quite modest price you can completely change the sound and... | |
| Hana ML and Korf head shell Just like many MM cartridges, especially at your budget, Garrott P77i is "best buy" and more user friendly in my opinion. For $500 (equal to AU$ 690) this is fantastic cartridge (on the warm side). You can even try JICO SAS stylus on it in the fut... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? It would seem logical that more connectors introduce more distortion. distortion that you can't detect | |
| 3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢 It’s ridiculous!If the tonearm does not move side to side while playing the record then your record is perfectly centered (perfectly enough, so no one can detect any imperfections in pitch, even trained musicians). The rest is speculations of the ... | |
| Measuring "Stylus Drag" with the RPM Speed and Wow app Thanks Jonathan @jcarr for posting video in Russian :) This time only I can fully understand it without goodle translate or subtitles :) Interesting.He’s using Soviet Melodiya test record and Soviet Corvette cartridge with elliptical tip (1.5g tra... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? A coil inevitably has inductance. However there are some tricks of winding that can minimize it, as in Mills resistors. Otherwise wirewound resistors are inductive. It’s the law.Might be a special trick, description about inductance is from the ma... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above There is no doubt that you can improve your turntable by changing the tonearm. I replaced the arm on my Technics 1200G with a Glanz and the improvements were notable. Did you try any Glanz cartridges? @dionisofunThanks for reminding about GLANZ, I... | |
| SUT Advice - Which Ones Are The Best? You can read Arthur Salvatore’s reviews here. He’s comparing many great SUTs, but find his thoughts on ZYX Headamp: "This is, most likely, the finest head-amp I’ve ever heard. I state this because it is competitive with the finest transformers I’v... | |
| Hana ML and Korf head shell Yes, it’s MM cartridge (called Dynamic Coil), so you can change the stylus yourself when needed. You can also load it up to 100k Ohm (the 47k is not mandatory). Garrott Brothers are legends! With Hana you can’t do it yourself, you will have to buy... | |
| Thoughts on moving from a 1200G to Sota Saphire or above Classic idler like 301 are beautiful indeed, but “musicality” is subjective. For better “dynamics” we need a high efficient speakers. Turntable drive function is to spin your record on a constant speed. Not everyone has an extraordinary hearing ab... |