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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul and Nandric,The AKG P8's might be the new gold mine find. It appears that Axel has not only the P8's but also the P25's and the P15's. His web site states all have (in his words),with renewal of the implementation of the needle. He also st... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul and Nandric,Your comments on the AKG P8 come at an interesting time. I have just ordered a (good as new), AKG P8E Super Nova VDH from one of our favorite retippers, Axel. He has them listed at 199 euro including the vat tax. For those of u... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Nandric,Good to hear some feedback on the Virtuoso changes. I can understand not hearing any difference between two different stylus profiles, but I'm alittle susprise at your comment concerning the two cantiliver materials. I wonder if the the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Dover,I am constantly amazed at what trade secrets get revealed on this forum. Thank you for that Koetsu's/Garrot Bros. input!BTW. I own one of those Garrott Bros. cartridges. The P77 and concider something special indeed!Thanks again.Regards,Don | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Tubed1,It is my understanding, that the Maestro is a Virtuoso Wood with a different cantiliver/stylus and more wood top hat. It would be my quess that the cantiliver/stylus brightened up the cartridge to much so they added aditional wood to ton... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Lewm,There was someone on this forum who was going to send a Virtuoso off to SS for his TOTL cantiliver/stylus upgrade. I do not recall ever hearing a update to that experiment? I wonder how it turned out?I have come to understand the "refresh"... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,You have sent several cartridges to VdH for "refresh" only. You have also sent cartridges that had the cantiliver/stylus replaced. This would also have to include a suspension "refresh". Surely they don't reuse the old suspension, do they?... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,Have a question?Back on 10/24/11, you posted something you were concidering. That was to send 20+ of your cartridges (that you had multiples of), off for a cantliver/stylus upgrade to compare against the originals. Is this something that y... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards All,For those of you with the Shure ML140HE, there is a supply of the original NOS N140HE stylus on ebay under cartridges/needles. NOS's don't come up very often. Get it while you can!Regards,Don | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Timeltel,++++I'm curious about how many have explored the cartridge isolation option and what their impressions are++++I do not have a tone arm that uses removable headshells. I have a Graham 2.2 that have removable arm wands. I still use (if n... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,I have a question for you. Your post on the AKG P8 stated AKG P8vdH. I took that to mean that you had sent it to vdH for a checkup. Now that I have sent the Empire 4000D off to Axel, I have been looking thru his web site. I have discovered... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul,++++VdH use CF in some of his cables and sounds terrible.++++Years ago, I remember hearing some of vdH CF cables and I quite agree with your assesment! At the time I felt my dislike for them must be my inexperience because why else would s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul,There are cartridges that you expect will perform very well. Any cartridge you recommend, would fall into that catagorie. There is one that you highlighted, has actually caught me by suprise. I want to thank you for bringing it to my attentio... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards Timeltel, Dlaloum and Fleib,If I understand it correctly, 90% of a cartridges sound is from the cantiliver/stylus. I use the 440MLa stylus on the TK5Ea and like it very much. Loaded at 47K with only the cables for cap. Sounds fine as I exp... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Tubed1,I can not agree with you more! I have spent the last 3 days listening to only MC's, primarily the Benz Mico Ruby 3, and a cartridge that was designed by Winn Sao called the Blue Oasis. Previous Stereophile Class A and Class B rated cartr... |