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| Ortofon Kontrapunkt C vs. Cadenza Bronze The cartridge has arrived at VAS, and now I have to wait for it to get to the top of Steve's to-do list. It will be very interesting to compare it to the Bronze when it returns. I tend to use the Ortofons for classical records, and the Decca Refer... | |
| More on did I do the right thing? That's all that matters! I lived happily with a V-15 VxMR for a few years, and I hope you'll do the same. | |
| Thoughts On Turntable Clamps And Weights The most important thing to avoid is dropping the blasted weight on a record on the turntable. If you can manage that, I think they do assist if they clamp down tightly. The weights on my SME tables screw down and flatten all but the most stubbor... | |
| UPS Driver Literally Drops Package with New Hana Umami Red I find UPS and FedEx do not ask for a signature even if the package is supposed to require one. This started as a reluctance to meet people in the pandemic but has continued as a way for the poor drivers to actually have a hope of finishing their ... | |
| Ortofon Kontrapunkt C vs. Cadenza Bronze In short, I would NOT seek out a retip on the Bronze to try and make it sound more like the Kontra "c". It’s kind of its own thing for a few reasons, and retipping that cantilever seems like it might degrade its integrity. Nor would I. It is th... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" Maybe the only thing we can all agree upon is that a clean record is a bigger upgrade than money spent on downstream components. I have certainly found it so. | |
| Ortofon Kontrapunkt C vs. Cadenza Bronze Very interesting. The FG2 will be on the same cantilever (tapered aluminium) and mounted nude. The only difference I can find is that it has a larger measurement of 70µ instead of 80µ. Thank you all for your input, I have sent the cartridge off t... | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" I did something different today with a 1979 LP (new to me). I used AI Enzymatic formula on the Loricraft and then just distilled water in the Degritter. I did this because the record looked dirty (and had a superficial scratch on one side). Came o... | |
| Ortofon Kontrapunkt C vs. Cadenza Bronze How likely is it that the different styli are making me prefer one over the other? To fit the Kontrapunkt C with a Replicant stylus would make it like the Bronze, I think, and that's not what I'm aiming for. I assume there are other internal chang... | |
| Ortofon Kontrapunkt C vs. Cadenza Bronze He can put an FG2 on it, he tells me, for $350. Does anyone know how this varies from the FG80? | |
| The "Very Best Record Cleaning Formulation" You exist. It is enough. | |
| Vintage Gyrodec TT power supply question @dogberry posted the link for the QC power supply.... Did I? | |
| Riddle me this.... @mahgister Thank you for that long quote. I won’t rise to the bait about double-blind testing as I can see it applies only to subjective listening tests here. I am fascinated by the information about the eighth cranial nerve, however. It seems to... | |
| Matching the cartridge to the phono stage 0.3mV and 0.5mV are close enough that there will be just a tiny movement of the volume control between them, so go ahead and set the phono stage to the 0.3mV input. The loading of 100Ω will do fine, but if you really want to experiment when you ha... | |
| Did I do a good thing or not? Depends on what you used before the Shure. |