chakster
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| Funny how streaming/digital still chases that analog benchmark. Streaming can’t replace record collecting. It will never happen. Records have value, and prices goes up in time for rare stuff, people with quality records are rich in a good way. It’s an investment. One rare record even in VG condition can cost m... | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 @chakster good to know. Any carts that worth its time using jico? Hico made some many cheap styli just to let people buy something for their old cheap cartridges. JICO SAS is extremely expensive profile and not available for all cartridges. I thin... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms @chakster...I just pulled out my dealer binder from Grace. The literature for the F9E & F9E Ruby, state 47,000 as the recommend load.I don’t like F9E cartridge compared to better Grace and to some better MM. I think F9E is nothing special. 100... | |
| MM Phono Input impedance change 47k to 100k ohms I agree with Al. I have sold, (I was a Grace dealer) and personally owned many various F9 cartridges and have found that in most cases, the 47K setting is perfect. I currently have several F9E's and have tried many different phono stages with th... | |
| New AT ART and OC9 cartridges ART series changed a lot over the time, if you will look at the cantilever/stylus assembly on the latest you will realize it’s completely different, not AT’s unique anymore. On older ART series there was a Gold-Plated Boron cantilever. New cantile... | |
| New Cartridge Time There are much better cartridges than Grado available for your tonearm.But using low compliance DL-103 on Rega is just a demonstration that you don't understand tonearm/cartridge matching theory, read here. And your dealer too. | |
| Sota or Technics It’s a big deal to build nice quiet direct drive motor. Production requires lots of work and investments so it should cost different figures at exhaust. This is why Direct Drive from Matshushita (Technics/Panasonic) is the best in the world, they ... | |
| New Cartridge Time You tonearm effective moving mass is .... ? | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 @anthonyaI have all of them (high output XSV/5000, low output XLZ/4500, XLZ/7500), fully original with Stereohedron styli, using Jico or any other fake styli on Stanton/Picekring makes no sense. Genuine Pickering/Stanton top models goes up in pric... | |
| Sota or Technics Technics for sure | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 I must admit that not every MC is bad and not every MM is good. I prefer some top vintage MM (NOS) because of the obvious difference in performance (and cost) compared to modern MC carts. I don’t like modern MM cartridges, most of them does not ha... | |
| Help my analog sound as good as my streaming Your turntable and cartridge must be replaced if you want to upgrade. You need a high resolution MM or MI cartridge with advanced stylus profile, and a proper Direct Drive turntable like Technics SL1200GR if your budget is limited, but you still w... | |
| What is it in MM that can give me goose-bumps? 🤔 @anthonya @chakster what do you think about xsv3000 Pickering? or v15 I already have Stanton 780 and epc 205 ciiL and akg pm25 on the way... I think phono should really sound like master tapes I listen to heaps of them what’s the recommendation f... | |
| SUT Opinions What about GAIN on your Miyajima Preamp , there are 3 phono inputs as I can see. "The right photograph is a changeover switch of the input impedance of B and C.B : 600～47kΩ C : 600～100kΩAn impedance matching improves by matching the impedance of t... | |
| Will Step Up Transformer Improve the Sound Quality? I have various SUTs, special Headamps, High Gaing MC phono stages (with adjustable gain), MC phono stage with built-in SUT is the quietest of them all ... What is really special is Current-Injection type of MC phono which I also have (for low impe... |