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| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Talking of the proof being in the listening, I just realised I have been making an elementary mistake, and I bet most of you do it too. This is about getting the volume right when comparing cartridges. I expect we all know that volume influences ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? "The Decca London Reference is an awful cartridge. It is a terrible tracker and very unreliable." Says you. I've had one for eleven years with no reliability issues and no tracking problems, nor does it hum like the Deccas of yesteryear. Put it i... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge Fingers crossed for you! | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @pindac That's very interesting. You may have gathered I'm wedded to my London Deccas, but I know I must be prepared for their demise and unrepairablity after John Wright retires at the end of this month. The Kontrapunkt C has been a welcome surpr... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? "Dogberry, what phono stage provides 5 pairs of phono inputs?" Five inputs are available in the huge and delightful Musical Fidelity NuVistor Vinyl. It remembers what you have set for each one (each can be MM - with eight capacitative loading set... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? " Is the Kontrapunkt B, the ’World's Best Cartridge’ ? Was the Kontrapunkt B, in its modified guise, the Best Cartridge heard in an individual’s World on the day of the event, for a proportion of the attendee’s, it is a possibility this was the ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? mulveling wrote: "Even much lower line cartridges like Kontrapunkts..." Careful, lad, I'm listening to a 500 hour Kontrapunkt C and thinking it is uncomfortably close to what I like about the London Decca Reference. That alone makes me think Ort... | |
| Analogue v. Digital...again (Washington Post) I wouldn't trash gear just because it's old. We are enjoying very modest incremental improvements on analog equipment these days. They are real advances, but small and expensive. Some old troglodyte in the 1960s with a Decca cartridge, Garrard tur... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I've lusted a bit after the Hyperion from SS, and have a Sussurro MkII which is the cartridge just below the Hyperion in that product line. I find it like the Grado Statement 3 - honest, thorough but unexciting. I won't bore everyone again by reco... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas wrote "Btw, today no one and I mean it can trust only in that " listen " that is only subjectivity. We need to be very carefully about and try to analyze the item surrounded facts/characteristics in an objective way. Ears can foolis... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge In my case I needed a new stylus, and the cartridge had become very microphonic, which usually means one of the coils has become loose. So it would have needed the top taking off, the potting removing, coil fixed in place, new potting, new stylus ... | |
| Looking for a London (DECCA) Reference phono cartridge @ledoux1238 I think you'll be happy with it, and I hope if it is any kind of questionable condition it has been to John Wright recently. He retires at the end of this month. It is very much like the classic Deccas in sound, but with a much heavier... | |
| One turntable with two arms, or two turntables with one each - which would you prefer? I've been looking at the Acoustand tonearm pods, which would let me add a second arm to one or both my SME Model 10 tables. I have a spare SME M10 arm, and could get an M2-9 for a fourth arm. My phono amp supports up to five inputs. I know, it's c... | |
| Ortofon MC Cartridge Problems ?? Maybe you have a favourite disc with a non-concentric label that catches on the stylus? My experience with Ortofon's is that they have excellent quality control. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I'll jump in once more. This thread is not about CD vs LP, and any entries of that kind ought to be ignored or deleted. My opinion is that the new technologies that take the idea of minimising the moving mass on the cantilever are on the right tr... |