chakster
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| Tonearm for Luxman PD 441 I use Luxman TA-1, Victor UA 7045 and Lustre 801 on my Luxman PD-444. They are all under $1000 and works great for mid/high compliance cartridges (lustre works great with low compliance as well), but you need different luxman's arm bases for diffe... | |
| Recommend a cartridge for the new Technics 1200 @crouse99 I will be using the phone stage of my McIntosh MA7900 (MC loading of 50, 100, 200, 400, 1000).... I am drawn to the Soundsmith line because they can easily be retipped but I have never heard any of their cartridges. SoundSmith cartridge... | |
| Cartridge recommendations @sturgus I wonder what is special about those Hana MC carts under $650? Do you own any or your advice based on other people reviews online? | |
| Cartridge recommendations @noromance dl103 or 103r for shelter 501 mk2 owner? For those who like refined cartridges the Denon 103 is on the opposite side like the Ortofon SPU. @houseofhits why not look for decent vintage MM cartridges of the highest caliber in the same $50... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? @rauliruegas the MINT LP one, that's a dedicated protractor for the TT/tonearm we own. It's really accurated and for only 100.00-150.00.Or Dr.Feickert analog protractor (next generation) just for £137 new from analogue seduction in UK. The pound i... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? @fleib Chakster,I bet you’ll wind up with Loefgren alignment. Both nulls are within the recorded part of a 7". Error will be much less through most of song. Stevenson will be better at the end, but much worse up until there.No, only one null point... | |
| Help me find value for Technics SP-10 Direct Drive Turntable The SP-10 is the cheapest in Technics SP series, for price sratistics check ebay for sold listings. Personally i would avoid SP-10, look for SP-20 which is much better and closer to SP-10 mk2, but still cheaper than mk2. The SP-20 is very rare, it... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? @lewm Chakster, You might consider listening to the Victor tonearm in Lofgren for several weeks. Then re-align for Stevenson (only assuming that the Victor UA7045 is designed for Stevenson), and listen for another few weeks. Then decide which yo... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? It's amazing how far we can go with audiogon contributors, from old '7 inch records to the new '7 inch tonearms. Well, i'm testing Lofgren alignment with good results on Victor UA-7045 with Victor X1 cartridge. What is truly amazing with Victor X1... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? My special thanks to @rauliruegas and @lewm for pointing me on 100k ohms resistors for MM phono stage. After a few evenings of playng records i can say it was a very big improvement. In case with top of the line Grace F-9F and F-9U pickups it’s li... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? @thom_mackris I’ve tried Stevenson for victor ua-7045 on luxman pd444 and it sounds great (no matter LPs or 45s). First cartridge was AT-ML170 OFC mounted at AT technihard shell (at-lh13). The little twist is hardly visible, but i’ve done so to se... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There is a German catalog with JVC X-2, so at least it was available in Europe under JVC brand, not only in Japan and Asia as Raul said. The JVC X-2 looks identical to Victor X II. If there was JVC X1 mk2 as Raul said, then it's obscure model, nev... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I’ve bought NOS Victor X1 II in the box, never used with the documents and individual test. I have tested it recently for 5 hrs and it was better than my used X1 II E which is sold now. Now i have Victor X1 in perfect condition and i’m gonna check... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? @thom_mackris I view this in the same way that I view people who don’t play half of their records because they don’t sound good. With this point of view It seems like you are ignoring all formats of the vinyl records, except the "12 inch format.... | |
| Time to choose: Baerwald, Lofgren, Stevenson ? The key word for Stevenson is "crescendo" which is a passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity (in classical music). According to Stevenson's alignment method a new set of parameters taking into account that on records with cla... |