chakster
Responses from chakster
| MM Cartridge Recommendation With your budget for new MM look for Garrott Brothers P-77i from Australia. | |
| MM Cartridge Recommendation You have a good cartridge with nice stylus profile if it’s not worn out (you said it was purchased used). Cartridge reproduce what’s on the record, are you sure your source is good enough? Before you will buy another cartridge find some reference ... | |
| Technics SP 10 mc II. Worth looking at? Nice, use it as is, you don’t need to change anything in SP-10 mkII if everything is ok. You could definitely upgrade the tonearm. | |
| Grace Level ll Still in love with Grace in 2021: Local folks are lucky because we can arrange a home demo of each cartridge from our vaults, except for sealed new old stock like these RS-8U blue Utility-4 styli (they are still factory sealed). Last night we chec... | |
| Technics SP 10 mc II. Worth looking at? There is a metal label on the back of SP-10 mk2 drive, never seen 110-120v versions. In Japan they are ONLY 100v. I use American and Japanese electronics with external step-down transformers. | |
| Can Yamaha MC-5 and MC-9 cartridges be re-tipped? @yogiboy No worries, it’s a nightmare of rich retired dealer from Australia addressed to me, I believe :) SSSHHHHH - some folk here still believe in floobydust - 30 year old cartridges sound as good as they were new with a retip. They think the el... | |
| Can Yamaha MC-5 and MC-9 cartridges be re-tipped? Beryllium cantilevers are no longer available.Yes, they are superior, but you can try Boron. | |
| Discovered I had a One Step pressing....from 1978! but the master tapes do age Nope, and you can watch interviews with mastering engineers working for Analogue Production label. Old master tapes from the 50s are still incredible, those tapes still amazing source for audiophile reissues. | |
| A 60 year old turntable design is still going strong! Awful design | |
| Have you heard Gold Note is increasing prices It was nice to by PH-10 with PSU-10 from Italy few years ago, without VAT added to the price and before price increased that much. | |
| Have you heard Gold Note is increasing prices Nice, my gear getting more expensive, always good to know | |
| Recommended FR 66 service Maintenance of my FR-66fx tonearm has been done quickly and easily. On my images you can see the process step by step: Old grease removed; spring cleaned; new grease applied; reservoir sealed back again with soft glue. Most important: new grease f... | |
| anyone selling fuji/tdk/maxell type iv/metal tapes? I think it’s OK to ask, but the cassette tapes are everywhere, so why? It’s not something special, not hard to find, just search ebay. I bought some from ebay this summer, great stuff (nos) | |
| Purchasing from LP Gear Again, it’s not a big deal to buy a cartridge, every dealer can sell a new cartridge if they got it in stock. The real problem is how this dealer can help his buyer when a cartridge stylys is worn out, if the dealer can ship it back to the manufac... | |
| MC cartridge upgrade for a Schiit Sol (Denon dl-103r) help! Your arm is definitely NOT for low compliance cartridges designed in the 60s for superheavy tonearms. Modern tonearms are for modern mid compliance cartridges. The life span of Denon conical tip is too short, if you think it’s affordable cartridge... |