hfisher3380
Responses from hfisher3380
| Dynavector 20XH or top tier MM? I have yet to hear any cartridge which can rival the dyna 20x at it's price point. | |
| Upgrade from my Planar 2 I would agree with you (original poster). If I were shopping in that price range I'd look long and hard at the vpi classic. I'd match it to a dynavector 20x and spend the remainder on a good used phono stage (sorry, can't help you much there as I'... | |
| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? Couldn't agree with you more on that "following the tune" BS!!! | |
| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? I agree with Dover - there's probably no point installing a modern high end MC cartridge on that old low-mass SME arm - it wants to see a high compliance cartridge and today's moving coils are primarily medium to low compliance. You need to upgrad... | |
| Rega Elys II cartridge: Is it worth the money?? A previous incarnation of my system employed a Rega P3 with RB300 arm. I thought it logical to stick with a Rega cartridge due to presumed compatibility with the arm and ease of set-up. It replaced a likely decades-old Supex cartridge which was a ... | |
| Benefits of a record ring IMO the only downside would be logistics - I fail to see how a flatter record surface could be anything but positive. In my case I have a suspended table and an SME arm so it wouldn't really work... | |
| Can any Oracle experts help me? I do have the manual and have followed the instructions to a "t". I've tried numerous times to seat the platter and belt but no matter why I do it seem to "want" to ride the bottom of the pulley. I've tried teasing it up with fingers and/or clean ... | |
| Can any Oracle experts help me? I'm located in Toronto.I'll probably just call Riendeau at Oracle - send an email but haven't heard back - have read that they can be slow responding to emails but can be very helpful over the phone... | |
| Can any Oracle experts help me? Belt is brand new - bought a maintenance kit. Bearing properly oiled, new springs etc... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D To be clear, I do track the first (12dB) track completely clean but get mistracking on the second (14dB) track. Optimal antiskate to decrease this mostly right channel distortion seems to be between 2.5 and 3 on the SME dial.I agree with you - som... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D I agree with you - it doesn't seem right. As I've said I've checked, rechecked etc everything. I'm currently tracking at 2g with antiskate set to 2g. It does better on the tracking test with heavier VTF and more antiskate - for e.g. 2.5g and 3 of ... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D That's what I keep on telling myself - hopefully my patience will eventually pay off. In the meantime I am on my second UNIverse cartridge and for some reason continue to have the right channel mistracking issue. Again the first one was a used car... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D Funny - your problems sound EXACTLY like mine with my UNIverse - I'm the guy who posted about the SME and Graham arms. I'm mostly using it in the SME V which of course is not a unipivot arm and my tracking results are exactly the same as yours - w... | |
| VPI Classic and ZYX 4D I've had similar issues with my Zyx UNIverse - in fact two of these cartridges. Long story short - I purchased a used UNIverse which sounded great but had tracking issues. Happened with 3 different arms (2 SME V's and a Graham 2.2). Loved the soun... | |
| Which MM cartridge? On a previous turntable (Rega P3 with RB300) I went from a Dynavector 10x4Mk2 to a Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood to a Dynavector 20xH. My order of preference was 20xH>10x4Mk2>Virtuoso. Of course these things are subjective but I found something a... |