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| Lyra Lambda Atlas/Etna @mijostyn, if you contact Johan about the availability of the Colibri you might also inquire about a sample of MSL Hyper Eminent he had on offer. This was a special version with ruby cantilever supplied by MSL (regular Hyper has aluminum cantileve... | |
| Lyra Lambda Atlas/Etna @mijostyn, the MSL Signature Platinum is very high in the food chain of modern high end MC cartridges. I haven’t heard it myself, but do own Accuphase AC-6, which is also a Matsudaira design. Based on the price level, this cartridge is most likely... | |
| Lyra Lambda Atlas/Etna Nope, would be difficult with nothing to attach it to. It’s the main reason why (dis)mounting it is such a nerve wrecking affair. But worth it! | |
| Lyra Lambda Atlas/Etna @mijostyn, in my experience you don’t need to be apprehensive about the built quality of the Colibri. The design is fragile by nature and mounting and dismounting a Colibri needs a very steady hand and definitely is not my idea of having a good ti... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @mijostyn, the MSL cartridges are also based on similar design principles of very low impedance and relatively high output. There’s no doubt these are great systems, but the Signature Platinum and even Ultra Eminent are in a different price league... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Lewm, with the Proteus now out of production, you might focus on Mutech instead. While I haven’t heard it, the design brief is very similar and designer Kanda San supposedly had close ties with Transfiguration before it folded. In fact the body of... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other Lewm, while I have nowhere near the scope of experience as Raul, or any personal experience with those 10k+ cartridges, I do own a number of modern (near) top performers like Ortofon A95 and Anna, Transfiguration Proteus, Accuphase AC-6 (same as M... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas, with dozens of mc’s in my possession I have promised myself ( and my wife): no more cartridges. So I will not hear the Verismo in my own system, but I will get a chance to hear it at a local retailer I’ve known for many years. I will... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas, I had noticed that the pricing of the Verismo with diamond cantilever is about the same as the regular MC Anna with boron, so that is indeed a positive step in contrast to the mostly upward trend in high end audio pricing. Have you ... | |
| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @rauliruegas, what new characteristics do you attribute to the MC Verismo? All the things described in the link are tried and tested Ortofon technologies that are already used in MC Anna, Windfeld Ti and A95. On the basis of this the Verismo can b... | |
| Looking For A Dialogue Around Using An Ortofon MC2000 In My Current System Lewm, what you say makes perfect sense and I don’t think you have gone wrong. On that theoretically sound basis the MC200 should not work properly in a high mass tonearm, let alone an FR64S. And yet it absolutely does, as it also does in the FR64F... | |
| Looking For A Dialogue Around Using An Ortofon MC2000 In My Current System @rauliruegas +1, The Entré ET100 is a great recommendation, but the ET200 is an even better choice as it is dedicated to low impedance MC’s and has no switching. The gain is 30dB, which will be enough in combination with you Esoteric phono amp. ... | |
| Looking For A Dialogue Around Using An Ortofon MC2000 In My Current System The MC2000 is generally considered a difficult customer to satisfy, due to its unusual combination of extremily low output level and very high compliance. However, in my experience the output level is more problematic to deal with than the complia... | |
| Ikeda 407 Tone Arms - New or Vintage Versatile is perhaps a more appropriate term than universal. The tonearm closest to being universal is probably Audiocraft AC-3300/4400, which offers 4 different counterweights and 2 different sub counterweights but also various armpipes, includin... | |
| Krell FPB 300cx or Now? Yup, keep it. The FPB was a great design, arguably Dan's last great effort before getting kicked out of his own company. Over the years I went through most of the stereo models, from the original 200 (later 300cx) right up to the 700cx. To my ears... |