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| Newbie Issues: Grace F9 with Micro Seiki DD-40 The OP needs to keep in mind just one thing:PayPal buyers protection and full refund on anything will wipe away all the problems with bad sellers, no loss for the buyer. This is another fresh image on one of my LEVEL II Ruby EXP just to tease, a u... | |
| VAS (Steven Leung) cartridge repair/retipping service? The devil is in details. When someone using a donor (secondhand cartridge for parts) to fix another broken cartridge my question is why not just buy different fully working original cartridge (better one) instead of making Frankenstein ? | |
| FR64S tonearm overhaul Zu Audio cables are great (speaker cables, interconnects, phono cables). Zu Mission or Mission mkII are cool. | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 Yeah, only tracking force, sorry | |
| FR64S tonearm overhaul Not every wire in audio is silver, there are so many people who like copper more than silver. It's a personal preferences. Luis, I'd like to recommend you to replace arm lift on FR-64s, got mine from Italy, made especially for FR-64s, this arm lif... | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 I always do what the manufacturer recommends first and use my gear according to that. Mr. Walter Stanton explained very well why there is a brush on his cartridges, some people are happy using fluid dampers instead (not every cartridge have a brus... | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 I use all Stanton and Pickering with brush and all of them are fine and the sound is fantastic with recommended settings of VTA w/ brush. | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 Yes, the difference between XSV/3000 and XSV/3000-SP is compliance, the SP is lower compliance 15cu vs. 30cu for XSV/3000. So the tracking force is higher for SP version (2g is recommended, read the manual). | |
| Denon DA 307 and DA 309 After installing the 3000SP with headshell provided courtesy of @chaksterSounds completely different than with the DL302-II, much much better, playing stairway to heaven from modern not so great pressing, imaging and sound stage is very good, it... | |
| Looking for a phono stage with pleasing coloration How can someone else tell you which sound coloration do you like? | |
| Newbie Issues: Grace F9 with Micro Seiki DD-40 @hauie88 If you need assistance PM me, some people on ebay have no idea what they are selling and they are too lazy to check a cartridge before they ship it. Other people don’t know how to use internet search. Actually I’ve seen so many NOS Stanto... | |
| Ar ethe current LP's available for $25 or so as goos as the old ones. chackstera: Apparenty, I was not clear enough. The thousand dollar plus ones are not reissues, but new music. AA does carry both. However, I know what sounds a lot better than a $1500-2500 LP: A CD and a trip to France... after the vaccines ... | |
| Any truth to my feeling that MM carts are possibly better than MC on rock recordings? Every cartridge designed for all genres of music, the rest is personal preferences. As @zavato posted mastering engineers (disk cutting) are using MM because of their neutrality. I must admit that Doug Sax choice was the 881 stereohedron tip (not ... | |
| Logical upgrades to a DD turntable. KAB is nothing special, fluid damper is ONLY for very high compliance cartridge. His cables are not the best and you can get better from Cardas or Discovery for very low cost. But I will say it again: nothing will give you such a huge improvement ... | |
| Logical upgrades to a DD turntable. You have to change a cartridge first of all, m44-7 is extremely high output MM with Bonded Conical tip! The key of this DJ cart is high output and durability, but not sound quality. Get yourself a proper Hi-Fi cartridge with advanced stylus (nude ... |