chakster
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| NOS Grace F9E question @lewm Acutex used titanium cantilever in its top models. I don't know of any other manufacturer that did that, but could be. Victor X-1IIe has titanium pipe cantileverAudio-Technica AT150Ti has titanium cantilever too One of the Grace LEVEL I... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I’m curious about SONY XL50 laminate core Moving Magnet Cartridge with Boron Pipe cantilever. Made by Sony Sound Tec. corporation in 1981 (the price at that time was ¥ 25,000). There is a Delta sign Δ around the cartridge in the catalog and inside... | |
| The 'tube-transistor' enigma by MC carts? Last month i have opened my headamp designed by Nakatsuka-San. The reason to unscrew it was expired batteries. It was a first time when i saw input resistors like that. Those resistors looks like an MC cartridge coil and made by winding the wire t... | |
| Ugraditus is calling....again. Phono stage? @rsf507 sorry, but i was busy with some other things in august, no time for music, trying to catch the last summer days here. | |
| NOS Grace F9E question @lewm So why wouldn’t it be potentially beneficial to replace an elliptical with a line contact or some other more "modern" shape, in the process of re-tipping? I want to hear and judge only original cartridges in perfect condition (from any ma... | |
| NOS Grace F9E question Nothing wrong with your F-9e @bimasta, as i said it's a good cartridge, but in my opinion there could be only 3 winners like in sport (№1, №2, №3). Since the Grace stopped making cartridges more than 27 years ago we can recall the best models. Shi... | |
| NOS Grace F9E question @lewm So, at the present moment, which Grace cartridge do you think is the very best one to own? If I am going after a rare Grace, I may as well pursue their best. Thanks. in my opinion the very best (true winners and champions) are:LEVEL II (LC... | |
| NOS Grace F9E question @lewm some people on this forum believes that changind a short leadwires in the headshell makes hude difference in sound quality (certainly not me). I believe that LC-OFC version of the coils and pins makes more different, but diamond shape and ca... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? ADC Astrion is a waste of money, after many years of discovering so many NICE vintage MM cartridges in this thread someone decided to go back to the mediocre cartridge from the first page of the thread ! Hey, everything ok? | |
| Theory about Fidelity Research MC & PMC Carts @ateal ok, i will leave you alone with your thread, good luck seems like you have no information and you’d better look for english manuals for the carts that you call "japanese only", i believe japanese can’t read in english and vice versa. | |
| Tube recommendations yeah, i hope this Telefunken video will make you laugh :)you know what to do now | |
| Theory about Fidelity Research MC & PMC Carts @ateal You can have my PMC-3 in mint condition because my FR-7fz is much better cartridge than any of them. According to Jonathan Carr who's a friend of Isamu Ikeda: "From my perspective (that of an active cartridge designer), the closest thing ... | |
| The 'tube-transistor' enigma by MC carts? @bimasta Here is some info translated from Japanese about Air Core Coil of Fidelity-Research PMC-3 : " Air core coil is adopted as coil, weighing is realized compared to ordinary coil part made of magnetic material as core material, and magnetostr... | |
| Theory about Fidelity Research MC & PMC Carts @bimasta @nandric Your erudition and wit are fun to read, as always. I must say my frined Nikola has repeat his favorite joke about Vienna 50 times already (on this forum). I like Vienna, beautiful city. In my languare Vienna or Wien starts with... | |
| NOS Grace F9E question @lewm Chakster, please tell us what phono stage, amplifier, and speakers you are using to make your unequivocal judgements.i’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll say again that I don’t think one can pick out all the greatest cartridges simply by no... |