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| 12-1/2" arm. NewArtVinyl Black Bird. Yea or Nay? If you like that Russian arm then you can look for Infinity Black Widow or much better Luxman TA-1 tonearm (made by Micro) with removable armtube, both under $700 max. Living in Russia i have never heard about this tonearm, but i know for sure t... | |
| Cartridge loading A MC cartridge is inherently a current generator and the best way to get the ultimate performance out of it is to treat it as such and feed it into a current amplifier. By definition a true current amplifier would load a cartridge with a dead sho... | |
| What's Worth More on the Open Market - Your Records or Your Audio Gear Actually a rare records cost a lot, a typical value for a rare Soul 45s is $100-300 each and it is only a middle price, some cost way over thousands for a single 7 inch. Some of them were $1-5 in the 90’s set sale lists, but with the internet auct... | |
| Tonearm ...... Acos Lustre GST-801 ..... Yea/Nay Would you like to try this ? Technics SP-20, absolutely beautiful, look at this. Just like SP10mkII, but in black, simplified version from 1976 with built-in power supply. | |
| Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart What load do you think is best? It is interesting question. If your phono stage has a built-in (1:10) SUT then i can tell you that i have similar phono stage from another manufacturer and it was OK with ZYX LOMC cartridges. But the ZYX CPP-1 pre-... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? Probably the seller have no idea how to pack for international transit. Everything must have been disassembled, turntable must have been wrapped, the best way is to use macroflex spray between the box and the wrapped turntable, this is the best wa... | |
| Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart Zyx can be loaded or unloaded from 100 Ohm to 47 000 Ohm, the manufacturer recommend more than 100 Ohm and it’s up to the owner (depends on the phono stage). Thread about cartridge loading getting hot. The goal of the special ZYX headamp (CPP-1) i... | |
| Getting close to starting the upgrade process... Isn't the Cartridge Man is just a customized Grado cartridges? The generator looks identical to Grado, i believe Grado is a supplier for Cartridge Man | |
| Lamm phono stage LP2.1 Deluxe with low output ZYX MC cart This is not extremely low output, shouldn't be a problem for a LOMC phono stage. Owned a few ZYX carts and it was fine. A dedicated ZYX active headamp improved the sound, look for ZYX CPP-1 mkII pre-preamp instead of a SUT. | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth So your saying that a Denon DL-103, a very low compliant cart could run well with an arm like a super light weight Black Widow? I would think that Denon would wiggle that Black Widow furiously at lower frequency's and not much energy would come ... | |
| Getting close to starting the upgrade process... The question about cartridges appeared here every week from different people, i wish someone could use "search" first, because so many information already on audiogon and we can only repeat it again and again, especially about MM/MI carts. First ... | |
| SME 3009 II Unimporved -- "Thin" Sound Most likely it is a cartridge and your phonostage weakness. But it is also depends on records you're listening to, you don't need audiophile pressing (re-issues), just a proper original pressing. Some records are better than others, but re-issues ... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth very interesting issue, you have a phantom of a cartridgeflying like a stealth, invisible for radarsreport back | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth Hi Fi News cartridge lateral and vertical resonance tests. It didn’t actually resonate at any frequency detected on these tests (no idea if that’s good or bad !). I think it’s impossibleNot like other cartridges from your arsenal ? The arm normal... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth ... because my arm is a Fidelity Research FR 66s, a very high mass arm which I got because I have several Koetsus, SPU’s, FR7s Denon 103 s and a (Decca) London Reference cartridge.... All I can say is that while there may be some improvement possi... |