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| Fidelity Research cartridges Ateal,Yes, my technics EPC100MkIV is the thegrated headshell version in P Mount version. | |
| Have transports improved for Redbook CD playback? I have a Chord Blu Mk 2 cd transport and upsampler. It's key advantage is the built in upsampler. It can upsample CDs to 32/384 via BNC SPDIF. If used with its sister Chord DACs, Dave (I'm using this) and Qutest, it can upsample to 32/768 using du... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Yes, the SPU 85th anniversary has the Urushi body. Really nice. My firend has the SPU 95th Anniversary. he likes it a lot and prefers it over my 85th Anniversary. But I prefer my 85th Anniversary on my system and his system. The 95th has a "modern... | |
| MC cartridge mini-shootout: SPU, Koetsu, FR, Ikeda Hi Chakster,You're right. I was comparing my SPU Gold to the my SPU Royal.You're right about the new Gold and Royal versions.My SPU Gold was older version with Elliptical stylus. The reason I specifically bought the older SPU Gold and Royal versio... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Ok, time to give some update since this thread has been revived and almost 4 years have passed since my vintage MC Cartridge mini-shootout review. Thanks to Chakster for finding that review.Firstly, I was able to listen to the Ikeda 9C III again w... | |
| Tonearm comparison, Rega vs Zeta, anyone? Why look only at ZETA? There are other vintage tonearms out there that are available for reasonable amount besides those mentioned above. E.g. Micro Seiki MA505, FR64s, Acos Lustre GST 801. | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? AFAIK, the Ikeda 9 started with the 9C series (From Mk1 to Mk 3) then moved to 9R and then 9REX came and then 9MUSA. | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms @nkj If you use the "Mint Tractor" from Yip, as suggested by nandric, and you want to use the Dertonarm recommended 231.5mm Pivot to Spindle distance, you need to tell Yip that P2S is 231.5mm. And you will have to choose between Stevenson, Bearwal... | |
| Anyone familiar with Ikeda 9 series (cantileverless kind) MC cartridges? There is Ikeda 9C Mk3. I have this. Very nice. After this, Ikeda started calling them 9R. And started making them as integrated headshell carts. The final one was called 9R MUSA in a wooden body integrated headshell.The new Ikeda compnay is using ... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms lewm,My point about the silver wires is not who has better tonearm silver wire but that the existing FR64s and FR66s tonearms are about 40 years old and getting them rewired, either by Dertonarm or Ikeda brings improvements. In fact, I go to great... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms Dear nandric,I have the original FR silver wire that dertonarm removed from my FR66s. The construction looks much poorer (thinnner, pvc type insulation) compared to the Ikeda Silver. Plus it looks heavily oxidized. I did a side by side listening c... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms Nandric,Dertonarm told me that he used Ikeda silver for my rewire. I ordered Silver wire for the rewire by new Ikeda company. I could not hear a difference between these 2. But I heard a clear difference between original FR silver wire versus Dert... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms Nandric,Woah! Not contradictory. You're taking comments made almost 4 years ago about how I like Dertonarm's rewire versus original FR silver wire and the latest comment about Ikeda's rewire. Let me clarify. I like Dertonarm's rewire over original... | |
| FR66s vs Ikeda IT-407 CR tonearms Wow, this old thread that I started has come alive again after almost 4 years. Here's my update:I now have 2 FR66s tonearms and they're still the best ones in my inventory. One thing I would like to pass on to others who may be interested is that ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Mattnshilp,I'm keeping my Zanden. It's one of thise audio units that's a keeper. Allnic is for sale. I understand your thoughts on the DAVE. But the Blu2 adds much more to the DAVE than DAVE itself. The combo Blu2/DAVE with full upsampling to 764k... |