chakster
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| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? @travbrow i have owned several technics cartridges rebuilded by Axel with nagaoka boron cantilever, new suspension and nude elliptical tip for 205c mk4 and 100c mk3 cartridges. I can send you some pictures on macro lens if you want to check. In th... | |
| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? @mapman don’t be so naive, replacement stily for rare vintage (discontinued) cartridges cost nearly the same as the whole cartridge+stylus, some of them are impossible to find, maybe you can find cheap styli, but it’s not easy to find NOS ruby, bo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I just ordered 100k ohms resistors from Texas Components on ebay (TX2575 Naked Foil Audio Resistor). After Lew’s advice i made a quick search and realized they are probably the best in the world resistors for audio. Texas Components is the manufac... | |
| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? Northwest Analogue - this is what Raul called "premium re-tipper": ------------------------------------ FG tip £325.00 to £375.00DHC Cantilever and FG Tip £750.00 Ruby Cantilever and FG S Tip £700.00 Coil and suspension repair/adjustment start fro... | |
| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? @nandric So I disagree with Axel being ''faster andcheaper'' than the rest. BTW strange comment in this thread. Haha, you're right, maybe "faster" is not the right word for this thread. However, my experience is positive. We could make a compar... | |
| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? @wntrmute2 if you know who is Peter at SoundSmith in USA, Van Den Hul in Netherlands, Dominic at Northwest Analog in UK then you should know that Axel Schürholz offering nearly the same service, but faster and cheaper in Germany. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @lewm I once looked into how those phono stages work that are said to automatically adjust the cartridge load impedance, but I have now forgotten how it is done. I’m learning a lot from you guys. Once the loading of MC cartridge is so complicate... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? No problem, RaulYou’re not the only one who knows what is worth or not, we are all buying and selling cartridges. I think we pay for the personal experience with certain cartridge in our systems. For me it’s the most important, maybe not all of us... | |
| Anyone else having trouble getting cartridges back they sent for repair? @travbrow I got my Glanz 71 back from Axel in december 2015, it took a few month to repair suspension. Two years is too much, you'd better call him. I don't think Axel ignoring emails, but sometimes you have to email him 3 times to get one reply, ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Sure, when i use CPP-1 headamp it is connected to my MM phonostage on WLM Phonata Reference. The WLM PHONATA works with two-stage amplification:• An inductive voltage amplification stage (for MC cartridges) using highperformance professional audio... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @lewm I went to the ZYX website, finally, to get more information. There they do say that the load R = 100 ohms. You’re talking about V.2 (Second Generation) of ZYX CPP-1 pre-preamp which is indeed set to 100 ohms. I own First Generation of the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I’ve seen that old listing from strange russian seller who can’t even take a good pictures of what he’s selling for maximum price. Anyway, i guess it’s not a good idea to talk about prices (in public) from audiogon users like Harrold when th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @lewm Furthermore, I am not sure what you meant above as regards your phono gain options, but by all means don't use a SUT with the 980LZS. If you used a pre-preamp which merely adds an active gain stage in front of the phono corrector, then yo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @lewm I own both an NOS CS100 and an NOS 881S mk2, but I have never even taken either one out of OEM packaging, so I cannot say much about comparing the CS100 to the 980LZS. Now i have all of them: 881S mk2, CS-100 WOS, 980LZS I think CS-100 is... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @acman3 it was PC-1000, but not PC-1000 MK2 which comes with rare Beryllium cantilever. Chakster, Professor Timeltel was a big fan of the Pioneer cartridge’s. He found an old body and Halcro located some styli, although I don’t remember the exact ... |