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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, **What causes skating forces is the fact that, with offset-angle tonearms, the LP groove pulls the stylus in two vectors at once. One vector is from the stylus to the tonearm pivot. The second vector is along the offset angle.**Those vectors ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Prof, the intersection of the 2 lines is at the stylus. Any further extension gets into theoretical physics and I'm not qualified. I stand by my previous posts. Lew, AS is caused because the line that determines offset angle is different from the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hello Prof, Your hot rod Healey sounds pretty cool. I'd replace that 3 speed with a 4 and get a 456 rear. Can you still get gas for that 11 to 1 bad boy? Easy for me to say, my hot rod days are long gone. Fastest car I ever drove (my friend's) was... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Timeltel, You're saying that overhang causes skating and not offset? Which came first, chicken or egg? The physicists explain it as offset. The stylus subscribes an arc from a theoretical pivot point that differs from the actual point of (arm) ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Prof, **Offset is the angle at which the long axis of the cantilever intersects that of the tonearm. In the case of a curved arm, the divergent angle at which it would intersect a straight line drawn from the stylus to the pivot. I mean, really... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Nandric, I didn't mean to imply a correlation between being a heretic and speaking English as a second language. Actually, perhaps the contrary is true, at least for those in the US. When reading technical posts sometimes it's hard to figure ou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Mike, Not using AS does not cause distortion as such. It causes channel imbalance. It also causes skewed cantilevers and uneven (premature) stylus wear. Although once the cantilever is skewed, unless you realign to the cantilever it might cause... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Lew, Yes, pretty much the same. I left out the part about stylus drag. Skating force is entirely due to offset, not tangency. Even if the cantilever is perfectly tangent to the groove (at a null), the back of it is not pointing at the pivot. It... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, No specific language complaint here, it's just that I have enough trouble with English and my tongue gets caught in cheek. My mission is evangelical, i.e. to save souls from the damnation of the affects of unperceived distortions and... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Maybe because this forum is in English, my expectations for an understandable post on alignment and AS, are unreasonable? It seems to me that Lew and the Prof have the right idea. For the rest of you heathens, non-believers and sinners, it's like ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Yes the CA MM all share the same generator. I think the more expensive ones have closer tolerances. Once again, they do NOT have the same motor as the AT-95. They have the same body, cu and output. They might all have the same tip, a bonded .3 x .... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Lew, I thought I'd get your goat with the electrostatic rant, although I put enough qualifiers in there that you could have felt exempt. I'm sure your Sound Lab are superb. In many speakers super tweeters are just tweeters with extended response a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Pauze, If the cart is resonating above the recommended range (8 - 12Hz), then it normally means your arm is too light, not too heavy. However, I wouldn't put too much stock in that especially if you switched to a light arm and there was no chan... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ironically, kevlar woofers generally sound nothing like carbon fiber and are possibly the best types to mate with electrostatic panels to augment bass and compensate for lack of solidity. Even electrostatics with deep bass capability usually don't... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Tubed1, Super tweeters? Ribbon tweeters typically have response to 40KHz. Some RAAL ribbons are claimed to have flat response to 100KHz. Fostex makes quite a few super tweeters with response to 40K. Some of the ribbons and the Fostex have high ... |