chakster
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| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? Actually with Art-9 you’d better check Audio-Technica, but if you bought your cartridges not from the official distributor then they will not help you. If your sample was from the AT’s distributor/dealer then you can simply ship it back to AT to g... | |
| 45 tubes for Yamamoto A-08s Ok, it’s me againWaiting for my National Union 45s i start thinking about RECTIFIER 80 tube too, i need only one. I have zero experience with this type of tube. Any recommendations?On ebay i see many of them (NOS) from the 30’s and 40’s:Sylvania 8... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. Totally forgot about the stylus!!! Ok, so if I get a Hana SL how long will it last vs say a 500 dollar moving magnet? 600 hrs and your Shibata stylus is almost worn out, and i think you have no idea what you can do with it, no one never answered ... | |
| Hana SL or ML? I really liked the SL but the ML improves everything the SL does well and makes it better. More refined, better detail, separation, and frequency extremes. Bass was clearly better. Exactly! This is what a refined stylus tip can make, Micro Line s... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? @cool_jeeves What is the cartridge you’re talking about ?There is no guarantee from anyone in this world, so what Peter said is a standard, you ship it to him for inspection (no pictures), then he could work on it, if you’re lucky it will be repai... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade - Nagaoka or Goldring As always some people have very limited knowledge about cartridges, but they like what they have. It’s so easy to check the specs for Nagaoka entry level models like MP150, some of them does not even have a NUDE Diamonds like MP-100 with Conical t... | |
| Cartridge repair by Moscow based Roman?? If Peter Ledermann at SoundSmith can’t repair your cartridge why do you think someone in Russia will do that ? It is not even a company, but a private individual who has no access to the parts and inventory that SoundSmith has, because no one in R... | |
| Cartridge Tonearm compatibility Would the Dynavector XX2MKII be a good match for the Jelco SA750E. The tonearm mass is 13.26gr. The cartridge weight is 8.9 gr and the cartridge compliance is 10 mm/N. This is a compliance at 100HzYou need a compliance at 10Hz or all your calcu... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. One disadvantage of MM is that stylus assemblies tend to have a rather loose mating with their cartridge housings. Any slight bit of tolerance there will result in some amount of signal distortion vs the fixed assemblies of an MC. Further, MCs hav... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64x My love to Ikeda & FR tonearms getting stronger.I'm a junkie about NOS vintage gear, i couldn't ignore Fidelity-Research FR-64fx in NOS condition in original box with documents (complete set). What a wonderful tonearm! Arrived this week, this ... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade - Nagaoka or Goldring Do yourself a favor and buy Pickering XSV3000 or XSV3000SP, both have Stereohedron stylus tip, nude diamond. Both cartridges are about $350-400 in MINT and nothing can beat them at this price. This model of Pickaring is equal to Stanton 881s It is... | |
| Best cartridge for very old worn vinyl It is solved not on alignment tool for headshell integrated cartridges like FR/SPU, but with correct PS distance by tonearm designer if you're using FR cart on FR tonearm. On Feickert you can only verify Stevenson point for those FR/SPU headshell ... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. Project will do the trick instead of spending 3 grand. Project is very bad belt-drive turntable, it's really the lowest quality even compared to some other belt drives, but if you will upgrade the cartridge even this turntable will give you more... | |
| Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS. @helomec I stated, "with exception of Soundsmith carts." Learn how to read.Oops, my mistake. But then it's just like my argument how inconvenient the MC cartridges really are. Does that mean a Hana charge 80% of retail to rebuild or completely ch... | |
| Best cartridge for very old worn vinyl FR7fc has a conical tip and this tip profile is less sensitive to the adjustment, this is the one and only benefit of a conical tip :) When all other profiles are a bit off the alignment, it will be irrelevant for a conical tip. If one of your FR7... |