chakster
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| Name that tonearm ! @toolbox149 I wonder if M.S. could have marketed it under a different name a some point? Micro Seiki TA-1 or Luxman TA-1 | |
| Vintage DIN phono cables, any good? @nandric Or you missed the ’’essence’’ Maybe, i just said they are fragile, not the best construction for re-soldering if needed. The benefit of the Xhadow is the bolt inside (to screw-in the signal wire to the connector pin) to pass on solgedin... | |
| Name that tonearm ! Exactly, this is Luxman TA-1 and i use this tonearm on one of my PD-444, it's great for high compliance carridges and much better build than the Black Widow. The armwand is removable, i'd love to find spare armwands (it acts like the one big heads... | |
| Vintage DIN phono cables, any good? @nandric So I use, for example, Bullet RCA instead of WBT (grin). Those Eichman Bullet RCA are ok to use (i have 2 pairs), but they are not good for re-soldeging as the pins inside are very fragile and it's easy to destroy them in case of over... | |
| Vintage DIN phono cables, any good? @nandric Anyway I hope you deed not spend mucho dollars for your speaker wire(grin). I did, long time before, tried various brands and stopped on Stereovox Firebird designed by Chris Sommovigo, same with interconnects (Stereovox Colibri with Xhad... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think it’s pretty easy to find Raul’s list earlier in this thread and he’s definitely much more experienced than me in this aspect. I have learned a lot from this thread years ago and i did tried many of the recommended cartridges. It was some s... | |
| Vintage DIN phono cables, any good? @nandric ok, did you re-wired all your tonearm collection? I have rewired a few vintage tonearms, but the reason was a broken cable, not the upgrade. I already have expensive cryo treated cables, like the one which goes with my Reed 3P (from heads... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @rauliruegas we always looking for a perfect cartridge and nobody knows what is the top one, do you know now ? Below i will quote yourself: "In my experience that AT ML-170 OCC is one of the must to have cartridges (MC or MM) along the 180 OCC." -... | |
| Vintage DIN phono cables, any good? @nandric do you mean corrosion of the old connectors or corrosion of the whole copper signal cable inside the isolation material? How about silver then? If the old copper is corroded (just because it's old) then each time we have to fully rewire e... | |
| Vintage DIN phono cables, any good? The old (original) cable of my Sony PUA-7 tonearm was dead quite with low output MC, better than more expensive new phono cable. That’s why i think for the top models of the tonearms they should supply their very best cable (not suppossed to be re... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @invictus005 It's my absolute favorite MM from current production of cartridges. I see, unfortunately modern MM cartridges are not the best or very expensive, except maybe for the current production Garrott MM cartridges from Australia. But the... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms @yogiboy I doubt he is looking at a vintage separate arm! I mean if someone would like to compare S vs. J on the same arm the Audio Craft and related stuff with removable artubes is a good option to understand which shape is the best for the ow... | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms I think the best way is to try the Audio Craft AC3000MC / AC4000MC with multiply armtubes of the different shapes. | |
| Curved and Straight Tonearms The only straight tonearms are linear tracking tonearms, the rest of the tonearm with straight armtube have an offset angle of the headshell, so they are not actually straight, except for the very short ones like the ViV Lab for example. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @steverino I play 45s using a Shure V15 Vxmr with the brush down to ensure rock solid tracking since I can’t clamp them as effectively as LPs. Actually you can clamp 45s very well, i use this clamp (designed for 45s) on top of my Micro CU-500 ma... |