howardalex
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| Your opinions about KOETSU URUSHI BLUE or VERMILLION I’ve got a Vermillion which I use in an FR66s arm; it’s a really nice cartridge, very holographic, great dynamics, excellent tracking and minimal edge or nastiness to the sound.Compared to my other Koetsu, a Jade with diamond cantilever, I’d say t... | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? @nandrc - totally agree :) | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? @halcro - I read that it was a single piece of diamond in a review in Absolute Sounds a few years ago, although I suppose that’s not direct from the horses mouth ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges I’ve now listened to the LDR at 1.65 gms and on some of my (admittedly quite worn) 1960s Argo recordings there was some mistracking, so I’ve increased to 1.85 gm which seems to banish that | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? @halcro, my understanding is that the Koetsu diamond cantilevers are one-piece, ie the stylus and cantilever is hewn from one piece of diamond so as to eliminate the interface between stylus and cantilever.I have a love/hate relationship with the ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges @halcro - hi, I’m just trying my LDR at 1.65gm with minimum bias on FR66s. I tried it last night and it was very nice at that setting , will have another go later...I asked John Wright what the VTF should be and he said “1.8gm +/- 0.2gm” so I gues... | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? I have a Koetsu Jade with diamond cantilever.when I bought the Jade originally it had a standard cantilever but after an “accident” (from which I still experience ptsd) it went back to Koetsu via the UK importer and they took pity on me and offere... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges @noromance - love your system ! I have a Radford STA25 just made for those ESL 57s !it’s not in use but it’s pleasurable just looking at ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges @noromance - thanks for the tip, I’ll try that on the LDR | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges @edgware - I bought the FR7 “PW-1” from a Japanese seller on eBay (touching wood I’ve only had positive experiences so far buying like that ...); According to him the “PW” stood for “professional world”, as in Fidelity Research made one offs for r... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges To any LDR fettlers, my continuing odyssey into its set up continues.For a while I ran it in my FR66s at 2.0 gms and no anti skate.i now run it at 1.82 gms with a tiny amount of bias (on the FR using the small weight at just a little in from the m... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges @chakster, re the FR7 series I actually have the basic FR7, the FR7fz (that you refer to), a “one off “ which is stamped “PW-1” as well as the FR7fc.In my system the FR7fc and the “PW-1” shade it ahead of the fz (which is itself a big upgrade on ... | |
| Best tonearm for London Reference Cartridge If you can get hold of some good quality silver headshell wires (I use the Aggolos ones) I found that was quite an upgrade with the London Reference... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges Oops I omitted the Allinc A6000 monoblocks from system ... | |
| LONDON Decca, Tzar DST and similar cartridges Oops I omitted the Allinc A6000 monoblocks from system ... |