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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? A very very rare MM gem for sale:https://www.ukaudiomart.com/details/649533900-astatic-mf-2500-cartridge/I already have one so good luck ! | |
| Uriah Heep "Sweet Freedom" BMG/Sanctuary Records reissue You´ve great taste for music : )Buy a copy of the original UK edition, Bronze ILPS 9245:https://www.discogs.com/Uriah-Heep-Sweet-Freedom/release/1918693All Castle LP reissues suffer from peaky, some more or less sibilant sound, except "Look at You... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Me ? I`m just a lawnmover. I focus on real life work today. I´m a working man.Yes it´s true some live in a world of fantasies, and another in a little bubble : )Tomwh, You can try reasonably priced neodymium magnets from say https://www.hkcm.de/i... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Looked like dry English humour, very dry. Could be from say ... what was that great funny BBC comedy show ... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Dear Lew, thank goodness it isn´t Lenin mausoleum, is it ? And, like you say as long as we are living happily, that´s all that counts. I couldn´t agree more. Keep spinning the discs. | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? : ) Let me put it this way ... my PD444 sounded like hollow... well accuracy if you like. In other words, digital. And actually its seeming dynamics sounded more like just sheer power not real dynamics, e.g. music really, just power. All in all, i... | |
| What's a real good arm for a Decca Cartridge? A word about Trans-Fi linear tracker. All my higher quality cartridges, both very low compliant and very high compliant can do all the Telarc 1812 Overture cannons because the Trans-Fi arm is capable. But only a couple of them can do the very las... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Ah it was you Bruce : ) Please to meet you again. Firstly, your deck is the most interesting thing since Salvation in modern High End really, IMHO. Of course the tables are different, yours is made of metal both platter and base, Vic´s is slate w... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? The Anvil Turntable is a very special design, actually it remains me of another great modern TT, the Salvation designed by Vic the Magician at Trans-Fi Audio in the UK (well of course). At the time, a couple of years back I was planning to make my... | |
| Name Your Top 5 Most Musical Dynamic Sounding Tonearms of All time? Trans-Fi Audio´s Terminator T3Pro - analog audio´s most ridiculous bargain, back in the business and better than ever : )Fits all kind of cartridges, from very low compliant 10 cu (like Entré-1) to highest compliant MM´s. As Terry says: Another gr... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Lew, its speed stability was ROCK STEADY it spinned flawlessly. The speed itself was precise 33 1/3 RPM all the twenty minutes time takes a side of an LP record. Actually I quite often found myself just watching the strobo disc that appeared dead,... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Yes indeed in the glorious 80´s we had hollow beryllium cantilevers with very low moving mass. The finest of SHURE was ULTRA 500´s 0.165 mg and ULTRA 400´s 0.195 mg which is an improved version of the ML140HE.Found this: An estimated list of Shur... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? In my system ORACLE DELPHI MKII produces more music than LUXMAN PD444. I sold that gorgeous vintage DD because it simply sounds digital, with or without the original mat, with or without the original elastomer feet or replacing them with maglev fe... | |
| Hear my Cartridges....🎶 Frogman and Cleeds, thanks for your input. I´ve known the MC Sigma Genesis 2000 and its reputation for thirty years and it´s a bargain as the prices for used are quite low today. A Colibri is another superb cart to try in my system but in this pri... | |
| Nominees For Worst Recording Of All Time Schubert, I´m afraid there is one for sure: Kiss Alive, 1975. I´ve listened to thousands rock albums and that is the most horrible by all means. |