halcro
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| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Isn't it fantastic that you both heard the differences so clearly on the simplest devices 😃I can also hear them through my iPad and iMac speakers but was not sure if it was my 'knowing' the 'live' sound that might influence my hearing 🤔I agree wit... | |
| Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone. You have a German-sounding last name and your first name, I don’t need to tell you, is not one common to us Jews I have eight 'Peters' just amongst my close Jewish circle of friends.And I think the 'Jewish' Apostle St Peter knew his name was more ... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 THE LONDON DECCA REFERENCEA phono-cartridge surrounded by mysticism and controversy....A MI CARTRIDGE WITHOUT CANTILEVER which arrives in its PURPLE VELVET POUCH and looks.....RATHER PLAIN 🥴?Apart from the 'mythology' around this cartridge....ther... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive but the case is that this cart has elliptical stylus. Well, VinylEngine describes it as HYPER-ELLIPTICAL.....But we can't always trust VinylEngine...🤗They also use the same description for the 'ordinary' SONY XL-88....It appears a bit more advanc... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Do the tables using the same tonearms have different presentations that we would  notice on our end.Tough question Steve.....The specific sound of each cartridge, tonearm and turntable is so intertwined as a combination, that I'm not prepared to t... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 I’ve had many people contact me asking where they can find a VICTOR X-1II?The bad news is........you probably can’t 😢Even if you do.....it will probably have a damaged or missing stylus.If you’re patient enough to wait 2-3 years....you might get l... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 I listened again on my all tube/Spendor/REL S30 rig. Amazing how it now sounds so more like a recording in free space compared to my headphones.Yes....I much prefer hearing the 'air', 'soundstage' and 'instrument locations' provided by speakers ov... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Hi Steve,Beryllium normally looks like THIS But if your AT-ML180 stylus is not GOLD-COATED......then it should be Beryllium 😃You lucky dog....🎉RegardsHenry | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 It took awhile but I read the whole thing.Good grief....a marathon session 🥴Did you only READ the whole thing @sdrsdrsdr...or also LISTEN to all the recordings?I know you wrote that you’re not setup to listen properly....but are you able to listen... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 2nd generation, overall much lower "fi". Loss of detail in about every respect. Loss of highs, muddy mids and lows, shrunken soundstage both side to side and front to back. As a result and most importantly, obvious decrease in musical aliveness. W... | |
| The Arm/Cartridge Matching Myth A while ago, I posted a Link to THE KORF BLOGÂ which is a 4-Part technical quasi-scientific report on his testing for TONEARM AND CARTRIDGE MATCHING.In the first three Parts....Alex Korf was discovering results which contradicted the generally acce... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Hi Frogman,Seeing that you're 'captive' and have 'Time on you Hands' so to speak 🤗......I wonder if you could do me a favour....?About 8 Posts up from here.....I posted recordings of a 1ST GENERATION YouTube file just like all the ones contained i... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Hi Frogman,Glad to hear you're all ok and taking the opportunity to 'chill out' 🙃🥃The extra time you now have allows me the benefit of your latest (and even more detailed) cartridge comparisons....I am grateful, as always...for your observations w... | |
| Direct Drive vs. Idler Drive vs. Belt drive I would have thought that the Cu Infront would have given it away..... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 OK......let’s try again 🤪AS PALLADIAN LOMC CARTRIDGE VINTAGE VICTOR X-1II MM CARTRIDGEVINTAGE VICTOR X-1II MM CARTRIDGE AS PALLADIAN LOMC CARTRIDGE |