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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi David, Assuming that's dynamic cu @10Hz, that figure looks high. It's vertical cu that's standardized and it's not necessarily equal to horizontal cu. I think the reason vertical is used is in consideration of warps and the possibility of mistr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, On the subject of hearing loss - a few years ago I read an interesting excerpt from an article by a research scientist doing studies of sound perception in deaf people. He measured physiological responses to stimuli applied to different p... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? "Moderate" age related hearing loss, as opposed to severe hearing loss, just doesn't work the way one might expect. It seems that the brain compensates for the loss and high frequency sounds are indeed heard. I first discovered this years ago with... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, I remember from the old days that those Signets had beryllium cantilevers. The information about the prism stylus was from the cartridge database. I've found their info to be pretty accurate in the past. I have no personal recollection of... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Siniy123, Although I no longer have proof, I owned a Signet TK 10MLII in the '80s. I'm quite sure it was a MKII, although I can't tell you what the difference was from the original. Often changes like this are minor. For example, the difference... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? As far as I can tell the AT-22 through 25 all had nude .2 x .7 elliptical on beryllium cantilevers, except the 23. The tip on the AT-23 is described as a .12mm prism elliptical on a beryllium cantilever. The Signet TK 9E and Ea had elliptical on a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Dlaloum, ***This is pretty much the only cartridge family that I know of where this type of comparison is possible, and it allows a determination of whether inductance and level are truly a factor in sound quality - or whether it is in fact oth... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Dlaloum, I don't know what kind of marketing was associated with these carts. That's why I asked. Surely the ability to drive longer cables wasn't the only reason for their existence. BTW, I have the inductance spec for the LZS as < 1mH. LOM... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Dlaloum, ***I think the real clue behind LO vs HO designs is in the marketing info about the LO models***What was the marketing info you're referring to? Did it have to do with cable length? It seems to me you're drawing conclusions based on pr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Without considering totally impractical output levels like .01mV, I wonder why it is that Soundsmith's TOTL cart is low output? Granted, his other MI carts have an output of .6mV and I don't know the inductance but it must be quite a bit more. I t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? From a theoretical viewpoint irrespective of amplification considerations, there may be benefits to low output beyond the lack of inductance. The few examples of low inductance posted above, are certainly not the norm. Today the trend seems to be ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Tuchan, Dertonarm,It's not that I wouldn't like to see new superior designs, it's just that I think it unlikely. A LOMM would be seen as many to exhibit the worst of all worlds. MM designs have generally been going downhill qualitatively since the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dertonarm, It's tough making generalizations like that about moving mass. Core-less has nothing to do with it. Some MCs have only 11 or 12 turns of fine wire, but that depends on the output. Every moving part including the tip and the cantilever c... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dlaloum, I went to Ortofon web site to look up eff tip mass. It seems they no longer publish that. However, I stumbled on this, that you might find of interest.www.ortofon.com/technology/the-measurement-test-chainRegards, | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? David,Interesting - using shunt capacitance reduced overshoot on the Talisman. The curved or angular square wave is phase angle anomaly on the MM. Perhaps reducing capacitance will improve it. It would be interesting to see if there is an effect o... |