chakster
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| Dynavector cartridges, old and new After release of the $5k ART-1000 the price for Victor MC-L1000 jumped to the stratosphere. This MC-L1000 was an inspiration for the Audio-Technica designer. Those cartridges with printed coil is very fragile and 90% of them have some problems wit... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new @nandric well, the conventional glued stylus looks like your recent re-tip with a drop of glue around the tip, so you can check and compare to Dyna. I'm not trying to say Dynavector is better than others, but Dynavector has its own originality in ... | |
| Fuuga vs Miyajima @amg56 OMA is not only a manufacturer of their own speakers,amps,plinth.., but also the distributor of various nice brands. I've bought my Schick "12 arm from them and some SPU cartridge many years ago. | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new It's obvious that Dyna's "Micro Reach" nude diamond goes throught the whole Diamond cantilever for superb rigidity, not just glued on top. So there is no amount of glue visible even under my macro lens, must be minimum. This generation of Micro Re... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new @nandric the advantages of KARAT is that with 100Khz resonance of the cantilever there is no need to use rubber as a damping medium as it used in conventional design. In the KARAT, rubber is used only for seating the cantilever on the pole piece. ... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new Diamond cantilever invented by Dr.Tominari of Dynavector Systems is completely different from any other diamond cantilevers. This is was Tominari-San explained in his interview i’ve posted above. If anyone can add any other cantilever like that pl... | |
| Stillpoints under a turntable? @violin you can find Isonoe footers under my pair of modified SL1210mkII on this picture:https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/36623354_2308505819167572_3047159123327057920_n.jpg?_n...But for serious turntables like my ex SP-10mkII in Obsi... | |
| SP10mk2: OMA Graphite plinth vs.Dobbins plinth Been working on the project for a friend who has purchased my Technis SP-10mkII with Micro Seiki CU-500 copper mat. He decided to go Obsidian way and i was looking for SH-10B3 plinth for him. Finally i got it and it looks better than i expected in... | |
| Valve phono stage @lewm Apparently we agree on that, and we agree that REAL ECC801s/802s/803s are very rare and very valuable in the crazy tube collector market. If yours are real, good for you. I do have some real Telefunken ECC83/12AX7s, and I only know they ... | |
| Valve phono stage ECC 801s is the military grade Telefunken tube from Europe, one of the best ever made, very expensive. 801s is the same class as the ecc81, but the highest grade by Telefunken (long life, low microphonic). 12AT7 WA is Silvanya Gold Brand from the ... | |
| Valve phono stage @lewm I can not buy and try any phono stage over $1k that's for sure. Still have some amazing NOS tubes left, such as ECC801 / 12AT7 WA, not sure is there is any valve phono stage with this type of tubes. Some NOS Telefunken tubes cost more than p... | |
| Valve phono stage @atmasphere thanks for pointing the factsas a disadvantages i can add:Tube Microphonics, Tube Noise, Tube Rolling effect (you change the tube and you change the sound). The price for each good tube, the tube estimate hrs and short life of the tube... | |
| Valve phono stage @lewm You’re right that phono stage is not the amp, i have no experience with tube phono stages yet and that’s why i am asking why valve is better than no valve? For practical reason i know it’s not better at all. My ex tube amp was WLM Minueta in... | |
| Phono Preamp Recommendations @lewm have you tried Xono ? I wish i could find a decent used one. But the Gold Note hooked me by the price without VAT they can give me for a brand new ph-10 (under €1k incl. delivery) | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new But the manufacturer of modern Micro Ridge stylus says 2000 hours is no problem. ZYX comes with the Micro Ridge for example. Dynavector call it Micro REACH 500hrs is a life of elliptical stylus |