dgarretson
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, This thread is mostly about discovering the best of the best MM/MI. As the market price for top NOS cartridges like Stanton 981LZS, Empire 4000D/III, Astatic MF-100, has escalated to USD$500+, the question is whether cantilever and s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nadric, so to combine your post with Raul's and Timeltel's: Axel's Euro 160-350 rebuild of a customer-suppied Stanton 881/Pickering XVS3000 stylus assembly will surpass NOS stock 981 motor/stylus assembly? Has anybody around here actually mad... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, I'm quite happy with separate high-gain and low-gain balanced phono stages to accomodate LOMC and MM/MI cartridges. I ordered the 98lLZS to have at least one MM type that will work with the high-gain MP-1.Raul, I'm not much of a "collector" e... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, thanks to Albert's referral I have a 981LZS in the mail. The high-gain MP-1 would likely work well with a .06mV cartridge by any definition, but .3mV is a safer bet. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The original manual for the 980/981LZS specs an output of .06 mv-- quite a bit lower than the .3 mv range quoted above and found on the forum references I've been able to excavate. So perhaps there are differences between implementations of the "L... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Cr0517, Nine letters is about right. It must be noted that the diminutive Mister Big was rarely sighted apart from association with Fearless Leader. Boris Badenov(whose qualifications included a degree in Scoundrelship from USC(University of Safec... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, for some American youth of our generation Dostoyevski's underground man (and in general the Russian flavors of alienation) resonated more than Sartre. (To this day when it's a struggle to get off the couch I think of Goncharov.) The ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I'm late to the party at your aunt & uncle's, but a closer investigation of the iconography of the Rocky & Bulwinkle cartoon will reveal the western corollary to your social realism. Please investigate particularly Mr. Big, w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I agree with you that casual modification invites a natural tendency toward confirmation bias. This can be ammeliorated somewhat if one spends long enough inside a particular component(sometime longer than the original development cy... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear lewm,"At first, I taught him a thing or two, but he has been flying on his own for some time...""Dear Avid Fan: inherit my mantle and surpass my achievements"--Coded message from Hannibal Lecter to his protege Francis Dolarhyde(aka Tooth Fair... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ct0517, FWIW, AVShowrooms.com, which produced those videos, recently filmed a video tour of me and my system of all-modified components. I don't know if/when this will appear on the site. At the time I had no idea who they were, but there is indee... | |
| Alt Country/Folk, American roots Ryan Adams "Ashes & Fire" is pretty close to Gold. Some other excellent new releases include "The Lost Notebooks"(Hank tribute) and Jay Farrar and Yim Yames "New Multitudes"(Guthrie tribute). All sound great on vinyl. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There is a NOS Empire 2000Z in the mail to me. Does anyone have experience with this model or have a sense of where its performance stands within the Empire hierarchy? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chopin123, anyone who has troubled to listen to every mm cartridge mentioned in this thread deserves a bigger prize than a Denon 103R. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I finally got off the couch and repaired my very modified ARC PH-2 balanced MM phono stage. Time to get back to the high life of MM/MIs after a long and satisfying side-bar with a DL-S1. John, it is certainly worth the $600. Given renewed discussi... |