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| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms @rauliruegas I’m neither in the ’new is always better’ camp, nor the ’vintage rules’ one. There are great designs to be found in both. In phono cartridges there’s little real design innovation, yet ’archaic’ technologies are shamelessly reintroduc... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms @mijostyn, you say there is nothing special about ’boat anchor’ tonearms and low compliance moving coils, but exactly what modern technology and wisdom are you referring to that have rendered them archaic? The only real advance in cartridge design... | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms @chakster no big secret as far as I'm concerned. I looked up the invoice of Robert Graetke of Analog Tube Audio, which amounts to €559,15 including tax and shipping. This quote was for a complete overhaul of my 64S (#051198), including new pure si... | |
| Info micro-seiki A-1200 armbase It's not the 1203 as this has the hole dead centre of the base (to be used with FR-64). This one is off centre, so probably 1205 for Micro MA 505 series or 1207 for Micro MAX 237, depending on the diameter of the hole. | |
| Berlioz Requiem Charles Munch with Boston Symphony on RCA Living Stereo. Colin Davis with LSO on Philips is also recommended. | |
| Refurbish Fidelity Research Tonearms I would like to recommend Robert Graetke of Analog Tube Audio, located in Germany. He did a great job on refurbishing my 64S. | |
| Ikeda 9GSS cartridge compliance High end prices have spiralled out of control as we all know, but $4800 for a SUT? These are passive devices with not much technology involved. The choice between copper or silver for the wiring is pretty much the only variable (in price as well a... | |
| Recommended FR 66 service Another thumbs up for Robert of Anaolog Tube Audio, who did a great job on refurbishing and rewiring my 64S.@chak, congrats on the 66FX and be sure to tell us the sonic difference with the 64FX. While I own both 64S and 64FX, I can’t help being in... | |
| ZEN cartridge ? @chakster, thanks for pointing this out. The owner’s manual and specs are all in Japanese and I just assumed the cantilever would be aluminum. But upon closer inspection it looks to be a solid rod of a brighter metal. So you could be correct that ... | |
| ZEN cartridge ? Funny how the Zenn cartridge keeps creeping into this discussion 😉As for the Sato Musen Zen, my guess is that this was indeed built by Victor, similar or even identical to Kanno’s original design. While the body looks more like the MC-L10, the con... | |
| ZEN cartridge ? @best-groove, I agree with you that the Sato Musen Zen Diamond is an absolutely wonderful cartridge. To my ears sonically competitive with current top mc cartridges. For the record it needs to be said that the diamond cantilever is NOT like the So... | |
| Aging Gear for Aging Ears This is something I hear more and more often. Usually ’older’ or at least veteran audiophiles who stumble upon some piece of vintage gear and are ’teleported’ to the times when it was still all about the music, not the gear. Is this just psycholog... | |
| Better Records White Hot Stampers: Now the Story Can Be Told! Of course sound quality of similar or even identical pressings are all over the map, due to handling and/or manufacturing (mal)practices. No secret there. And of course the more popular the music, the more copies needed to be pressed quickly to me... | |
| Has anyone tried the new Accuphase AC-6 cartridge? Well, I can't make a direct comparison with my AC-3, as I do not have any My Sonic Lab (MSL) or Air Tight models at hand. However, I do have an Audiocraft AC-03 which was designed by Matsudaira when he was chief designer at that company. This was ... | |
| Has anyone tried the new Accuphase AC-6 cartridge? There was no AC-4 (number brings bad luck in Japan). AC-1, 2, 3 & 5 were all designed by Nakatsuka (of ZYX fame), so will have a family resemblance. I own AC-3, which sounds great. Apparently AC-6 was designed by Matsudaira of My Sonic Lab, al... |