fleib
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don,I don't understand how a PC440 could have a beryllium and presumably nude square shank LC, while the 550 has aluminum and bonded whatever it is. I know of at least one instance where AT made a bonded ML on a straight alum cantilever. It's the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Look at the pictures on Asylum. See how the end of the cantilever in front of the diamond is folded over and the end of the cantilever is curved? This looks the same as aluminum. The only way that could be beryllium is if has another metal coverin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I've never even seen a picture of a PC-550, perhaps I was referring to the stylus. However, all the stylus sellers list that model as top. They also list the PC-100 as bottom and stylus plastic color is unknown. The quality level of the 550 ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Tubed1,**Calling all FrankensurgeonsThat compliance screw on the Acutex 3xx series of carts is just staring at me. This is tempting. Anyone know of an available shibata that would just slip right in there with a 15 degree stylus rake? I need advic... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, Thanks, good information about the vital line. This seems to be an LpGear exclusive and they've already told someone on Karma that it comes from a company other than Jico, but they didn't say who. I'm trying a 95HE on my Virtuoso. It's not ba... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I said all along I think it's a case of mistaken identity. I believe there was also a PC-100 and my guess is that the stylus belongs to either that or the 110. Looking at the front of the cantilever under 30, or 40X, and there's no doubt tha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Griffithds, **Perhaps a PCN100 cantilever/stylus mounted in a PCN550ML housing. Pure Audio Technica, just a mistake.**Possible, but highly unlikely. AT wouldn't use that color plastic for a TOTL stylus. Since nobody has seen a PC-550 that can't be... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Aceman3, **With the Audio Technica 20ss stylus on the Precept body there is distortion in the midrange.**Was it a tight fit? I've found some of the round plug styli are quite loose and need some blue tack. I think max VTF for 20SS is around 1.7 or... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric, I think the PCN550 might be an original Precept stylus only mislabeled. It should be labeled the PCN100 or 110. This is conjecture of course and based on the observation that a far East imitation of a TOTL would probably be more convincin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Aceman3, I listened to the PCN550 on an AT15SS. I had to trim the plastic. It took quite a few hrs for the cart to settle in. Eventually it had a very dynamic "live" sound. But it stopped getting better which I didn't expect and it didn't have the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Griffithds, Square post housing is inadequate to describe the 100 series of styli (plugs), which the 155LC, 152MLP etc, belong. The 95/Clearaudio are also square and are part of the 3400 series which are not interchangeable with the 100 series. Th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Don't hold your breath. LpGear is notorious for not answering emails. It's almost impossible to get a hold of them. Their reputation has been tarnished lately with a bad batch of OC9II carts. People couldn't get a response and had to cancel ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Griffithds, what is this Akai RS180, beryllium/LC?You bought them to transplant into a TK7SU. Is this more cost effective than a 155LC, requiring no transplant?I don't have the Precept cart. I tried the PCN550 on an AT15 which I hadn't used in qui... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Griffithds, **Comrade, to me based on what they have stated, it's kind of hard not to believe it is not an original. But being an original doesn't mean it had to be good!**Like Nandric, my magnification is inadequate for a definitive answer, but t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, *I don't really know JE, but he is a frequent contributor on VA and seems to have a legit engineering background. That said, he tends to go by the numbers rather than by the ears in most of his opinions (except he does admit to loading his De... |