dgarretson
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| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil This is an opportunity to substitute compact segmented thin-film metalized polyprop technology in place of electrolytics in PS. The SEG technology has less than 1/100th the ESR of any electrolytic, allowing substitution of a film capacitor at 1/10... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? John, this is a flat-nose M320. The repair was EUR 87 delivered-- an excellent value to get this cartridge back up on its hinds. I'm unsure but it looks like a new armature tab telescope/collar was fitted to the original tip. Next step is to send ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The M320 III STR with original diamond and Axel's refreshed suspension is a killer. It has slam similar to M420 STR, but is more natural, nuanced, and refined all across FR. There is better front-to-back layering, and no sense of exaggeration as w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, FWIW for a few years I've been exchanging impressions with a number of Trans-Fi owners who have supplanted decent pivots such as top VPI, Graham, and SME. I've never found a soul who, once the set-up has been sorted, prefers a pivot arm... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 Father John Misty (aka Joshua Tillman) FEAR FUN. He's grown gonads since the Fleet Foxes, aborbing what he needs of the psyche folk scene, Beatles, Gram Parsons, Dead. Interesting inversion of the Pastor persona. A well-recorded LP with occasional... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Today I received the repaired M320 from Axel. He straightened the armature tabs and replaced the suspension. No retip was needed. So it will be about comparing a refreshed M320 to NOS M420 and M415. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I agree with the last three posts. Just as important as reaching consensus on shared LPs for test purposes, the broad dissemination of Acutex 4XX cartridges from the italian seller into this group presents an opportunity to adjudge tonearms and an... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? BTW, the unusual construction of the M320 stylus suggests that preserving the armature tabs requires slipping a tube cantilever retip over the existing armature sleeve. I can't imagine how an entirely new cantilever could be fitted to the stylus h... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Tubed1, my used M320III STR came with an original stylus with a bent cantilever armature tab. If you have a M320, you know that the design is unconventional, with two armature tabs at the hinge of the cantilever that project perpendicularly d... | |
| Best Rock Album in 2012 Ry Cooder's Election Special. Kudos to Cooder(and Guthrie and Thompson before him) for taking on "the bastards." In this and the last album he has evolved compositionally and vocally, with much more vocal authority than on the early albums. Some g... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? While we're onto Acutexes again, I'll add that I'm running in an M415 after 100 hours with the M420. The 420 was very addictive. Like most addictions the stimulation may be due to an additive substance. In this case(rest assured for purpose of ana... | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners Slaw, IME on Trans-Fi linear tonearm the M420 STR's sibilance gradually resolves over 50-75 hrs. What little remains of it thereafter is an acceptable compromise, considering the eyes-wide-open performance that communicates everything that's great... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Gordon Holt really liked that MC2000:http://www.stereophile.com/phonocartridges/ortofon_mc-2000_mc_phono_cartridge/index.htmlHowever, in the mid-80s he considered it high praise that the MC2000 made LPs sound like CDs. How the ear has ev... | |
| APO Doors Reissues I'm very much enjoying the largely over-looked 2011 40th Aniversary three-sided Rhino LP release of LA Woman Workshop Sessions. The alternate takes are good, and what a meaty beaty bouncy working session with excellent SQ:"Dear Doors fans, here we... | |
| Jack White Promoting Vinyl Looking at the Sea of Cowards LP, there does appear to be a small ring of what may be grooves underneath both labels. It would require a butcher job to uncover it. Buried treasure or bone-head, Jack?IMO SQ is excellent on most of his LPs. |