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| How To Safely Ship Cartridges For Retip The more important is a return shipping from your retipper :)In my county you can’t insure a cartridge to whatever value you want, you must prove the real cost with real/valid documents. For example you can’t ship a $500 cartridge (or a piece of j... | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user @fstein budget is the only limit factor. | |
| Analogue from Digital It depends who cut the lacquer disc, pressing plant is also very important. Your cartridge and the whole analog rig are very important. In other words you don’t know what you’re listening to.I hate digital, but everything is much simpler with di... | |
| How To Safely Ship Cartridges For Retip I have shipped and received thousands of uninsured packages over the years (international shipping) and never lost any of them! Stop your paranoia and ship your worn cartridges with any available shipping method. Your chances for “lost in transit”... | |
| Nagaoka MP-150 vs MP-200 @xs1137 Nanrdic is using LOMC cartridges only, but believe me when he bought those NOS Signet they were mentioned so often in MM thread here on audiogon by so many different users, you can simply search the audiogon forum and you will find all the... | |
| Nagaoka MP-150 vs MP-200 Namiki patented it in 1983. It was MicroRidge | |
| Reference System TT - Dr. Feickert Analogue or Sota Not that it won’t work with a Sota or Feickert, but those setups are far more commonly mated with better vintage tables(e.g. Garrard 301,401). Schick ("12 inch) was in my system and I would recommend it as a very cost effective solution, it’s a p... | |
| Nagaoka MP-150 vs MP-200 As mentioned, my longtime cart was a Signet, which I was pleased with. The Naga MP-150 is different...the top end seems somewhat rolled off compared to what I’m accustomed to, though I am hearing at least as much detail, and I enjoy everything els... | |
| Up grade to a new turntable BTW:…Dynavector 20 xx high output, I’m using low output, at the moment, on my "Once Analog" turntable!!, so I don’t now how it would sound, would the higher output, sound harsh, on my phono stage, in MC, or should I switch to MM??You can always tr... | |
| Reference System TT - Dr. Feickert Analogue or Sota Cart: Kiseki Purle Heart NS SB, Koetsu Rosewood, less expensive choices - Soundsmith Zephyr MIMC Star ES, Sumiko Starling, dependent on TT/tonearm choice. I currently have and have had for a number of years, a VPI Scout & Benz Micro L2 cart &a... | |
| Nagaoka MP-150 vs MP-200 The Chinese Communist Party is the founding and sole governing party of the People’s Republic of China.Chinese is nationality, ask @mr_m why he has no clue who is his favorite online reviewer. My joke doesn’t work if the reviewer is from Singapore... | |
| Reference System TT - Dr. Feickert Analogue or Sota At its modest price Thomas Schick "12 is the most stylish tonearm for a low compliance cartridges. | |
| Nagaoka MP-150 vs MP-200 @chakster Well comrade, while we are airing our "dirty laundry" I’m at least willing to give that gentleman the benefit of the doubt. I have done my own comparisons and have found the Nagaoka’s to be of good quality if not Sota. You dismiss them a... | |
| What's been your turntable ownership over the years? In September 2021 I finally put together about 100 images of my system evolution and uploaded them in two parts in my Virtual System Gallery. You will see different turntables I owned (still own) since 2011. I’m with Japanese Direct drive turntab... | |
| Nagaoka MP-150 vs MP-200 There is a gentleman, Chinese I think who runs a hifi shop. His YouTube name is hifivinylnews. He does a lot of cartridge comparisons and likes Nagaoka. You trust some Chinese communist who runs a hi-fi shop? Who cares what he likes, he’s not even... |