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| Review: Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood Cartridge Hi Raul,ThanksAs always... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Nandric,I use the term 'dialectic' in its Platonic/Socratic sense. There was no intended 'showing off' here. For others, it simply means the striving for truth in/through open dialogue and that is where it tied into the conversation that I was ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dlaloum,As I tried to say, 'I agree'. And I suppose I sit within the dialectic between objective/archivist/scientific proofs and subjective/euphonistic/scientific verifications. The former criteria allow for the formation of a less biased value sy... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib,"Who was king a month ago? Any crusader will tell you that the holy grail has yet to be found, if indeed it exists." I think you have eloquently raised an important point here.Personally, I still find most admiration for the Technics Mk4 and... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Dlaloum,Having said what I just did (assuming that that one is posted before this latest one), I agree with your views regarding euphony and hifi targets. I do also believe that the justifying use of science that you are suggesting is the only ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dlaloum,While I find your behavioural explorations interesting I am confused by your statement that: "making something artificially different from the original, does not reflect the intent of the artist(s)."'Artistic intent', is (IMO) too complex ... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Nick_sr,Btw, I don't think what I have tried to say necessarily disagrees with your points, particularly about residue vibrations and the like. As I said, I have simply sought to understand what I am hearing in a (possibly) completely 'unscientifi... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Nick sr,I imagined that the turntable produces vibrations when it rotates. These mechanical rotations are not the same as the indentations on the record and would be transmitted to a coupled tonearm (no matter how small the transmission). To isola... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Hi Nick sr,I have little interest/knowledge of scientific possibility (trying Hif Tuning fuses gives one example of why this is more fraught with options than seems scientifically likely!). However, wouldn't the answer to your ultimate question be... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Griffithds,It would be interesting to hear your feedback after you have soundsmith make the same cantilever and stylus changes. Maybe the earlier respondent who suggested that this would be where perceived differences lie had a point.I'm eager ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,Thanks for your interest and, as promised, I will let you have my impressions once I've had a chance to actually listen to one. In the meantime, I hope that the information that Clearaudio provided will help clarify some issues and encoura... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Hi Halcro/Pryso/In_shore,I have for a long time thought that new equipment needs time for the room to settle into it. This is most obvious with changes in speaker systems but seems applicable to equipment more generally. However, this is all depen... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,Almost forgot, but one additional useful bit of information here is that the ebony black Virtuoso is only build by Clearaudio (OEM) for Marantz. Purchases of this one therefore have to be made through Marantz: whereas the satinee brown Vir... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,I got the relevant supplied information directly from Clearaudio. Sadly, I'm personally still in the 'research' stage and yet to buy or try one.If I do have the opportunity to audition them before buying one, I will definitely let you have... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Griffithds and Raul,Just to confirm that there are absolutely no performance differences between the black ebony Virtuoso and the brown Satinee Virtuoso - apart from the colour of the wood. There is however a difference between both of these op... |