chakster
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| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' Question for @chakster - I know you favor vintage cartridges, I have a friend who is also a big believer in them and says he is able to find old stock cartridges with little to no wear. Leaving aside the difficulty of determining this without a mi... | |
| Has anyone owned or heard the OMA SP-10R TT? Turntable is brand new direct drive Technics SP-10R from Japan.Tonearms are Schroeder from Germany. What is made by OMA is only Iron Cast Plinth from USA.I like almost everything from OMA in terms of design, this plinth is more attractive than ori... | |
| Teach me about cartridge 'retipping' Okay, I stumbled across my name being mentioned so I signed up. I just want to say a few things as a retipper. First of all, it’s not for everyone. Chakster’s mind is clearly made up about the subject and he takes a dim view. There are a lot of as... | |
| Mono vinyl, how do you know if really single channel mono or if stereo recorded to mono Those funny fake stereo mix is often related to records from the 60's. It's weird when vocal is only in one channel and drums in another channel ans so on. Records from 70's normally recorded and mixed in stereo properly. When we say STEREO it'... | |
| Mono vinyl, how do you know if really single channel mono or if stereo recorded to mono I have many records that were recorded mono before stereo existed or was just catching on so no stereo masters exist. .Any stereo version of these is "electronically enhanced" .. tough to see how the stereo version could be better... I’ll let you ... | |
| Great Experience with Feickert Protractor Dr. Feickert from UK without VAT was cheaper for me, used sample is even cheaper. Not sure what do you expect from a protractor, but no not overestimate the importance of it. You cartridge can be aligned perfectly even with FREE protractor that co... | |
| Matching Cartridge + Headshell + Tonearm combination You can use whatever you want until you can balance the arm, do you know what i mean ? If you can’t balance the arm with counterweight then headshell/cartridge combo is too heavy.Cartridge compliance and tonearm effective mass is another story, it... | |
| Mono vinyl, how do you know if really single channel mono or if stereo recorded to mono Funny to ask here and to buy what's in the reviews online.I can't comment on Miyajima mono. Anyway, Miyajima stereo cartridges are fantastic (got my Miyajima Kansui here) and I have not yet owned any MONO record that better than Stereo. I think I... | |
| SUT into MM input section of Solid State Phono Stage In my opinion 0.2 or 0.3 mV can be handled by almost any MC phono stage with ease, don't know why people looking for higher output MC. Running my 0.24 mV FR-7fz with Gold Note PH-10 phono stage without SUT I can use the lowest gain setting (-3db) ... | |
| SUT into MM input section of Solid State Phono Stage What must be matched between a SUT and the cartridge is the SUT gain to the cartridge output level, this is the main issue and not impedance loading.Any SUT with the rigth gain can works with any cartridge with the adequated output level it does... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 @atmasphere I know you’re not a collector of the best vintage cartridges and never was, but I’m constantly buying rare vintage cartridges hunting for them everyday, I’m telling the truth here, I have never seen a cartridge with collapsed suspensio... | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Everyone can check cartridge suspension visually, if a cartridge is not a low rider (which is a bad sign) then its compliance can be measured with Hi-Fi News Test LP on your particular tonearm. I’ve seen a few samples out of 60 samples with soften... | |
| SUT into MM input section of Solid State Phono Stage Not sure why do you think most people use tube phono stages? I think you are wrong. I’ve been using SUT only with Solid State phono stages. I must say that current-injection phono stages are much more impressive than SUTs and MM phono. | |
| Life After Technics SL1200 Mk5 Honestly, I have no idea what mijostyn is talking about when it comes to vibration. But i want to remind you that Technics SL1200 mk2 - mk7 turntables are often used on the dancefloor where at least 200-500 (sometimes even 10 000) people are danci... | |
| Logical cartridge upgrade for a long time Shure M44-7 user Nagaoka completely fails to extract that from the vinyl, it’s hard for me to buy into the idea of it being more ’musical’. I’d say the opposite. Nagaoka MP110 made with BONDED Elliptical tip, Shure M44-7 made with BONDED Conical tip. Nagaoka is M... |