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| Tonearm/Cartridge Combinations: What Do You Own (Or Have Owned) And Recommend? Good topic, tonearm/cartridge synergy is a crucial factor often overlooked in discussions about what tonearm is best or what cartridge is best. Without taking their interaction into account any recommendation of either is rather - eh - pointless.Y... | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? I've never had the opportunity to compare PL-70 and PL-70L II, so best-groove may have a point. But it's difficult enough to get either of these tables where I live.I know that newer isn't always better. But I do wonder why Pioneer gave up on that... | |
| So many great golden era DD tables out there, what do you recommend for $1000? I've lived for years with DP75 (with mineral plinth and AT-1100 tonearm). It's a very dependable and solid machine and by most accounts very similar in quality to DP80, but somewhat easier to find and at a lower price. I switched to PL70L II, whic... | |
| Old school analog system Interesting topic, thanks for bringing it up. Of course this is nostalgia for us old folks, but it's also relevant for younger people starting out on a budget. Because they might not be aware of how good some of the old stuff can sound, compared t... | |
| Any Love for the Grace F10 L Moving Coil Cartridge Chakster, I'm not suggesting there's something wrong with them. I'm well aware this characteristic very much depends on loading and the system as a whole, so I didn't make any value judgment based on that. But the description didn't wet my appetit... | |
| Any Love for the Grace F10 L Moving Coil Cartridge Okay, thanks for sharing this. I'm a sucker for vintage MC's, but I think I'll pass on the F-11L. | |
| Maggie owners (past, present, future) what do (did) you love and or dislike about them? I’m one of ’the 20.7 will be my last speaker’ guys. Moved from 3.5 to the 20 many years ago, which was a huge step up. Going from the 20 to the 20.7 was more subtle, but still worth it. The few minor issues I had with the 20 (ribbon tweeter quite ... | |
| What's your favorite album cover art ? That’s pretty ’clear’: Faust s/t on original German polydor (or later repress on recommended records). | |
| Any Love for the Grace F10 L Moving Coil Cartridge @ateal,I was wondering how you are getting along with the Grace. I have an angle on a NOS Grace F-11L, about which I haven’t been able to find any info. The only spec I could find is that the output level is supposedly 0.75 mV, the same as yours. ... | |
| static Issues...anybody know why? I’m no expert in these matters, but from my day to day experience static build up has nothing to do with the cartridge or even the plateau material or grounding. It all depends on the record itself.I use three different turntables with copper, rub... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Dear Nandric,Agnostic? Yes. Dogmatic? Hell no! But I do own 4 different FR-7 types, including the MC-702 which I regards as FR-7. I suppose this borders on ’religious’ or at least on being a strong believer. So I’m ’allowed’, thank goodness. 😋On v... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Yes, it’s unforgivable to divert attention away from the FR-7, isn’t it? 😉Getting back on the right - uh - track, changing the P2S distance of the FR-64S (or FX for that matter) when using the FR-7 is not a very good idea. With P2S distance at 230... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Thanks for sharing your observations! I assumed these were all technically identical to the Miyabi Standard. But I did notice that Krell had two different model numbers, which suggests there might have been some slight sonic differences. I also n... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges Would those three be the Ivory, MCA and Standard? I'd be interested to know if the cartridges Takeda built for other brands like Mark Levinson, Cello, Red Rose an Krell are identical to either of these three he produced under his own Miyabi banner... | |
| Fidelity Research cartridges This is somewhat speculative, but my guess is that most of these 1980’s cartridges were designed and ’voiced’ with the use of step up transformers, being more common than MC phono stages (called ’head amps’ in those days). And in Japan they were a... |