dogberry
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| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? @billstevenson If what Ortofon told you is true, then all of us who can hear a difference between a true mono cartridge and the mono button must be mistaken, which seems unlikely. I spent a long time examining the description they give of the Cad... | |
| Grade Master3 cartridge--Moving Iron Design I thought I had heard the term 'variable reluctance' applied to them? Which looks to me as if it a variant on the MI principle—see bottom right of this diagram from Gramophone in 1966: | |
| Grade Master3 cartridge--Moving Iron Design @bdp24 Glad to hear of the option for a line contact stylus with the Maroon. I lived happily with my Reference and Jubilee until I had to send my Reference back to John Wright for a rebuild. Learning that he was about to retire I started to explor... | |
| Grade Master3 cartridge--Moving Iron Design This interview details the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHYUOV3_Fog You never hear anything about it, but there is a special-order medium output (1.1mV) version of the Hyperion called the Helios. | |
| Grade Master3 cartridge--Moving Iron Design Moving iron allows for the lowest mass on the cantilever of all three traditional classes, making the cartridges very lively and dynamic. Put enough turns on the fixed coils and you can have the advantages of high output too (a simpler phono stage... | |
| Your thoughts or experiences with two specific turntables: Thorens 124 DD vs SME Model 12 It's been some years since I listened to my father-in-law's Thorens (which he replaced with an LP12), but I do have two SME 10 tables (which are pretty similar to the Model 12). I don't think the word "idler" belongs in the description of the SME.... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade Recommendations You might stretch to a Soundsmith Sussurro. It's a lovely cartridge at the sweet spot in the SS range, with detail and warmth nicely balanced. And able to be rebuilt for 20% of list price, guaranteed. It rivals the London Decca Reference in my sys... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? @elliottbnewcombjr How would using a stereo cartridge on a mono record damage the record? I can see that using a mono cartridge with no vertical compliance (eg Miyajima) on a stereo record could cause a problem, which is one further reason why I c... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? I had Steve Leung of VAS convert an older BM Ruby 3 stereo cartridge by rotating the former holding the coils 45° and connecting the horizontally sensitive coil to both outputs. He removed the disconnected coil and put a new stylus on it. This was... | |
| Vinyl Care Benjamin Franklin will be most surprised to discover that he was US president.... (Though he was President of Pennsylvania prior to the formation of the US). | |
| Anyone have experience to share regarding the Ortofon Cadenza Bronze MC cartridge? Having enjoyed the Kontrapunkt C, I bought a Cadenza Bronze. I ended up re-tipping the KC, as I prefer it. However, neither of these cartridges has a permanent place on my tonearms, but are taken out occasionally for a run. Is the Bronze really wa... | |
| Vinyl Care Thanks, Neil. Looks like it's been changed since then and the cans no longer mention the QA compounds. I'll save my old cans in case I ever fancy taking up solvent sniffing. | |
| Vinyl Care @antinn Is GruvGlide similar to Last? There was a time when I used it, but not in recent years. I did like the smell.... | |
| How much do I need to spend to make vinyl sound better than digital? Vinyl can never sound like SACD on a good player I like SACD because it sounds very nearly as good as vinyl! Comments above on the quality of the individual recording highlight the spanner in the works here. I was working through old Moody B... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback @theflattire You can have the greatest TT/Cart ever but running it through a mediocre phono stage only gets you mediocre. The same argument applies to each component further downstream until you get to the speakers (or hearing aids!) But what d... |