chakster
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| Upgrade entry level or start over? You can upgrade your cartridge first if you want to hear immediate improvement without spending much (if you don’t want to upgrade your turntable). When you drop numbers here it’s really nothing. Even if you will spend over $1000 on a phono stage ... | |
| Upgrade entry level or start over? Just buy brand new Technics mk7 for $900-1000 and look for a proper MM or MI cartridge | |
| Ikeda 9GSS cartridge compliance Compliance measured at 100Hz:10cu @ 100Hz is about 17cu @ 10Hz | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? LOL :) Right on! | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? FR-64s is good, I also have 64fx, 64fx PRO, Ikeda IT-345 and waiting for FR-66fx. Aesthetically 12’ inch tonearms are much better for SP-10 mk3 and mk2. My favorite on my ex mk2 was Reed 3p Cocobolo 12’ inch. | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? Bone records are crap (but good souvenir), in Soviet era it was impossible to buy even mainstream records from America or Europe, except for one source - overpriced black market dealers, it was a crime back then. So people made bone records in ter... | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? Look for old posts here and there are post from Mr.Kreb himself. | |
| Is LP distortion the record or the cartridge? On all records? | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? Everything about Kreb’s mod is already on this forum in older posts, easy to search. Same about JP Jones service and his new chip for mk3. I’m just trying to say that if OP would like to sell his mk3 then any further investment prior to selling is... | |
| Technics SL1000 MK3 (SP10 MK3) performance/value VS modern turntables? You can sell it as is, without any upgrades if nobody touched it before, the buyer will do the rest if needed. Price depends on condition, if you have original box and everything else like new then the price is very high! As you suggested even for... | |
| Anyone familiar with the Empire brand of cartridges? Great cartridges, American classics, there are better models, but yours is ok. Try it! | |
| What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms? I've heard about it too. I think we're all using computers and we learned quickly for how long you can use anything digital until there is an upgrade in software and if your software is not up to date you can't use it properly any longer. In 5-10 ... | |
| What's the market these days for NOS 70's/80's cartridges and/or tonearms? I have no problem with the listing fee. Both items that I sold recently went within a week of listing. You have the option of paying less up front or more when the item sells. Audiogon is a business. If you don’t like it sell elsewhere. @mijostyn ... | |
| What is the actual percentage of people exclusively listening to vinyl vs digital? I also have different systems, at least 3 different pairs of speakers, 6 turntables, 4 different phono stages and over 20 different cartridges and 9 tonearms, but I do not listen to digital in any of my systems for one reason (all my favorite musi... | |
| Cartridge without serial? Just checking ebay for Zyx and what caught my eye is that ones coming from Asia (known seller), and selling as new, are not perfectly packaged, missing the outer cellophane bag with a parallel sticker where cartridge model is printed, type is wr... |