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| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? This 'car' analogy with audio has very short legs IMHO.Surely the sole purpose of an audio system is to produce the best (most accurate?) sounds possible from the various forms of software?Is the sole purpose of a car to produce the best accelerat... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Roy,What do you think of the P Mount adaptor that you can fit to a standard headshell?P-Mount Adaptor | |
| Your favorites amplifiers for their visual look ? Hey Jax2......I'm sure there's some coffee machines in those photos? | |
| Lyra Titan i and Olympos SL On the other hand it is true not every arm and TT matches with the Olympos. In the Copperhead on the Continuum Criterion the Olympos feels very well!That's because Continuum used Lyra cartridges (particularly the Olympos and Titan i) to 'voice' bo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Roy and Raul,When they advertise that EPC-P100C Mk4 as a P Mount, does that mean it will fit into the same adaptor as the Azden P50VL or that it will screw directly to a normal headshell?I can't see any fixing points for it on the picture in your ... | |
| Your favorites amplifiers for their visual look ? Well I'm obviously biased, but the Halcro Reference series monoblocks of course! | |
| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Thank you Raul for a superb review.Although English is not your first language, the time and effort you have devoted to describing in minute detail the attributes of this incredible cartridge have paid dividends in communicating to the readers, ev... | |
| Connectors that convert spades to bananas? I've tried literally dozens of various adaptor/connectors and because I regularly pull out the bananas from my main speakers when I re-route the sound to my kitchen speakers, I've found most standard banana adaptors 'loosen up' over time and becom... | |
| Pet Sounds-Full range and subwoofers only I have the reissue produced by Pawelski remastered by Ron Mcmaster in May 1999 on Capitol Records.Only my "calibrated ear" I'm afraid Tpreaves as the room response and pressurisation was such that it equalled that which I heard on the Stereophile ... | |
| Choices: Nagaoka MP-50, MP-300, or Garrott P77i? The subject of the Garrott P77 cartridge is rather interesting.Brian and John Garrott committed suicide (together with their wives) in 1991.I believe that they began modifying the English A&R P77 cartridge (which was manufactured in Japan) aro... | |
| Continuum Caliburn - really the best TT on earth? Great journey and great report Tuchan.I hope you keep enjoying the music. | |
| Arm geometry and null points Sorry Doug, but John Ellison beat you to it on Vinyl Asylum with his one word answer......Yes!For that he charges nothing but your verbosity and 3rd degree deserve some recompense? :-) | |
| VTF and VTA- Constant or not? Doug,I lowered the VTF to 1.5gm and TRIED to get "negative VTA :-)" but with the DaVinci 12" it is very difficult (as Dertonarm stated).Nevertheless, with the DaVinci parallel the "magic" of the Universe returned to its former domain.As you have i... | |
| Turnable Rack Vibration Nsgarch has been right in everything he has suggested.The constrained-layer-damping is a nice touch and will certainly avoid any possible feedback problems into the shelf itself, but once you have your turntable on spikes, on a properly executed w... | |
| VTF and VTA- Constant or not? When our current UNIverse was new it needed ~1.70g. Today (2+ years later) it plays optimally (better in fact) at ~1.20g. That is not a typo.Doug!!! 1.2gm for the Universe?I seem to remember a post of yours saying anyone brave enough to go below 1... |