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| The damper, the tension wire and cantilever position Dear Nandric, are we to understand your cantilevers become ’deviant’ while stored as a result of being neglected? Sure enough these little devils can seem to have a mind of their own, but this does ’stretch’ the imagination a teeny bit. I’m only ... | |
| Koestu original Onyx Sig pre-platinum cart vs. later/current platinum Sig comparisons 'Stratus seekers for status seekers' is the way I once heard someone describe Koetsu cartridges. As in 'somewhat cloudy, misty and warm sounding' having an irresistable attraction to people who believe that buying a Koetsu is the entry ticket to s... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities @cdc ’immediacy’ is an even better word for the kind of realism I was trying to describe. One could say immediacy is what distinguishes the real thing from a recording. Just think of street musicians. Even from a distance and without visual contac... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities @larsman No, of course you can’t. Just as you can’t fool youself into thinking you’re sitting front row in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (to give an example I’m familiar with) hearing a performance of Mahler 6 (or any other large scale orchestral sc... | |
| Top two most important sound qualities You need only one: a sense of realism. As in 'suspension of disbelief'. For this to happen everything else needs to fall into place. Without correct tonality no realism. No clarity, no realism. Limited dynamics, no realism. Etcetera. To get there... | |
| Third Party Services - Phono Cartridge - Retip - Refurbish - Rebuild Services. Another vote for Kilian Bakker in the Netherlands. He repaired several of my cartridges - even some obscure ones - and his knowledge and expertise are second to none. He did FR-7f, Audiocraft AC-03 Mono, Shelter 701 and Harmony and Ortofon MC Rohm... | |
| SPU People: I love my Royal N. Which SPU will I like even better? @dhcod the A95 is a very musical cartridge and I’m sure you will enjoy it. The sound balance can be further tailored to your taste by the choice of amplification. As said, all SPU’s like SUT’s. The A95 has silver plated copper coils, so the choice... | |
| SPU People: I love my Royal N. Which SPU will I like even better? Perhaps it helps to give some idea of how these Anniversary models sit inside the SPU sonic spectrum. The A85 is the most ‘classic’ with a very ‘ballsy’ presentation. It has a higher output than most other SPU’s, which could be a welcome feature i... | |
| SPU People: I love my Royal N. Which SPU will I like even better? @mijostyn I’m aware Replicant 100 is considered to be more ‘advanced’ than Shibata, but we must assume Ortofon selected this profile for a reason in their ‘statement’ SPU Century. Of course they could just as easily have picked the highest grade R... | |
| SPU People: I love my Royal N. Which SPU will I like even better? It depends on what you’re after. The Royal is one of the more ‘modern’ sounding SPU’s, using an advanced stylus profile (Gyger Replicant 100). If you want to pursue this modern sound (in terms of detail retrieval, soundstaging, etc.) the Royal is ... | |
| Mahler on vinyl - your favorite Your moniker suggests sound quality is of importance, so with that taken in consideration: no.1: Walter on US Columbia no.2: Klemperer on UK Columbia (emi) no.3: Mehta on Decca/London no.4: Szell on US Columbia or UK Columbia (emi) no.5: Barb... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? In contrast to the ever spiralling cost of phono cartridges competing for the ‘world’s best’ nomination, I noticed an ad on eBay about a ‘new’ cartridge called Fidelix MC-F1000 direct coupled MC at an ‘introduction price’ of €3,5k. In today’s high... | |
| JVC mc-t100 step up (30 hom indicated) What cartrodge suits? I would assume this SUT was designed for the contemporary MC-L10 cartridge, which had a 30 ohm source impedance and 0.25 mV output. Generally speaking 20dB gain is on the low side for this output level, but the Victor direct couple systems were su... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @dover sample variation probably goes a long way explaining your experience as the Colibris are more prone to this phenomenon that any other cartridge I can think of. As you know they’re also very picky about their companionship. By this I mean to... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @dover as you know I greatly appreciate your expert opinion, but this needs to be corrected. As far as I know VdHul never used platinum magnets. However, he did use platinums coil wire for the Colibri. To the best of my knowledge he’s been the onl... |