chakster
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| Monster Genesis 1000 Phono Cartridge This cartridge designed by Nakatsuka-San, he's a person behind ZYX brand nowadays. Since a working Genesis cartridge can be found for $500 or so i think retip is just a waste of money. | |
| Break-In Unused Cartridge with Old Stylus? New Stylus in Old Body? Problems Encountered? How is Victor's old suspension I've seen many Victor samples, maybe i was lucky but X-1II with that curved beryllium cantilever was fine, some of the X-1IIe with titanium cantilever were bent (when a cantilever is slightly off centered, so you ... | |
| Cartridge, Compliance, try what in my JVC UA-7082 Arm? Anyone can join discussion about Titanium Pipe cantilevers, i can only recall Audio-Technica cartridges with this type of cantilever, but we're all aware of the Boron Pipe and the reason why they are better. According to our member @simpikins5 a... | |
| Cartridge, Compliance, try what in my JVC UA-7082 Arm? $400?The uber can be the smartest guy on the planet, but we’re talking about NOS STYLUS, not about a set of Victor X-1IIe/D (cartridge, stylus, headshell) in mint condition. I do not promote my listings here as many other people do, and ebay pric... | |
| Cartridge, Compliance, try what in my JVC UA-7082 Arm? Where the hell you can get original NOS Shibata stylus for Victor X-1II ? The model of the ORIGINAL stylus called DT-X1II and the price for such stylus in NOS condition will be higher than for the whole NOS X-1IIe/D cartridge for sure. This stylus... | |
| Break-In Unused Cartridge with Old Stylus? New Stylus in Old Body? Problems Encountered? Stylus is DIAMOND - the hardest material and since it’s NEW (NOS) you’re fine even if it’s 100 years old. Suspension damper is rubber, some old cartridges are notorious for suspension problems (for example Technics cartridges). Some cartridges are... | |
| What's a 30-year old Grace F9-E Ruby worth? @tigertiger you left your comment in a very old thread from 2012 I still have my F-E Ruby that I bought in in 82, or so. Mostly I transferred vinyl to cassette, so it doesn't have a lot of hours on. It replaced my V15, when somebody broke the ... | |
| First Moving Coil (MC) Cartridge Acquisition No one can tell you which flavor you will like in your system, there are so many cartridges on the market and they are different. People who enjoyed ART-9 on this forum, and raved about for a long time, sold them and bought something else, just li... | |
| Cartridge, Compliance, try what in my JVC UA-7082 Arm? I am asking about putting a new Shibata in an X-1IIe body. Will that be equivalent to a new Shibata in a X-1II body?I have no ideal what do you mean and the logic behind this idea. If you like to buy a broken cartridges to make a Frankenstein then... | |
| First Moving Coil (MC) Cartridge Acquisition If the budget is under $1k then you can look for a NOS Dynavector KARAT series with Ruby or Diamond cantilevers. KARAT 23RS MR or KARAT 17DS. | |
| Selling a very rare album If you already checked popsike.com and discogs for the price statistics then why do you ask ? | |
| Cartridge, Compliance, try what in my JVC UA-7082 Arm? Elliot, they are not the same, it’s different series.The Z-1 is cheaper (actually very cheap nowadays), the stylus is completely different and you can not swap the styli between entry level Z-1 and top of the line X-1 & X1II series. The Z-1 co... | |
| Break-In Unused Cartridge with Old Stylus? New Stylus in Old Body? Problems Encountered? Not sue what what is the question, any great cartridge i have bought and mounted was great from the start or it was bad from the start. I pay attention to all the settings when i mount any cartridge. However, we need a few days or even a week to l... | |
| phono preamp for the ortofon 2m bronze Look for a phono stage with optional loading, the best way is RCA plug-in load resistors (in parallel). Very expensive phono stages designed this way (like Herron), but you can buy a decent solid state phono stage for MC and MM cartridges with rca... | |
| TT, 12" Tonearm. Who tried and ended up preferring 12" arm? If you want to see it just like a re-tipper can see it then you need a USB microscope. But i'm fine with macro lens for iPhone when i'm taking pictures of my cartridges, here is the one with unused stylus (NOS FR PMC-3) |