halcro
Responses from halcro
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Having waited over two years to find my first Victor X1 cartridge with its ORIGINAL stylus.....I couldn't believe it when a Victor X-1II came up for auction on Japan Yahoo complete with its original stylus and Victor headshell.As there was only on... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Because the vintage FR-7f was heard previously on Ketty Lester's 'Love Letters'.....I thought we needed to hear it further 🤗And against my 'Mainstay' MM reference.....FIDELITY RESEARCH FR-7f LOMC CartridgeMounted in Vintage FR-66S ToneArm on TW Ac... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Mea Culpa Frogman.....I shouldn't have editorialised so much in the prologue...🥺And you're right about the similarities of both cartridges.....that's why I paired them.You're also astute in picking the slight 'edge' that the Empire has over the FR... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 And now for something completely different......🎸The Empire 4000D/III Gold was one of the first vintage MM cartridges I acquired after reading about it in Raul's MM Thread here on A'Gon.It was cheap (even though NOS) and it opened my eyes (and ear... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Thank you Harold and Frogman for your understanding and kind words....😍And thank you again Frogman for such a detailed and instructive analysis of the Signet and Decca and your kind words about my System.Coming from you....it means a great deal to... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 I also play 'requests'.....LONDON DECCA REFERENCE MI CARTRIDGEMounted in Vintage FR-66S Tonearm on TWAcustic AC-2 Belt-Drive TurntableListen for the cicadas chirping in the garden. An Australian summer indicator...😘SIGNET TK-7LCa VINTAGE MM CARTRI... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Yes, a vote for same arm/same cartridge comparisons. Haha......I agree that sounds like it would be ideal 🤗But it ain't going to happen...👎You know I have 6 arms (5 different ones) on two (different) turntables.So 5 different cartridge geometries ... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Very very interesting Noromance......🤔 | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 There were mainly two high-end cartridges that Sony were renowned for in the 80s and both were LOMCs.The XL-55 is perhaps the best known although the XL-88 and XL-88D (with one-piece diamond-cantilever/stylus construction) is the better model IMO.... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Thank you Frogman for once again contributing a perspective and detailed analysis which is invaluable to me 😎RegardsHenry | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 That's what I hear Noromance..... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Yes Frogman....I have a pair of Vandersteen 2Wq Subs.One behind each main speaker. | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 I admit to being a little surprised by how the London Decca Reference beat the Fidelity Research FR-7f LOMC in the 'Love Letters' Test because the FR-7f is a great cartridge.....Let's try the LDR against my second Signet TK-7LCa with a NOS origina... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Thank you Harold....I didn't know how this Thread would be received as I didn't know whether the subtleties of different cartridges.......and we are talking MINUTE subtleties in many instances.......would be able to be discerned via the YouTube so... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 This is for Frogman......Telemann Oboe Concerto in F Minor.Hope original Baroque Oboe is acceptable....?The Acutex LPM420-STR MM Cartridge was able to be picked up 'for a song' NOS only 5 years ago.Loaded at 47K Ohms with about 300pF capacitance, ... |