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| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge There are far too many variables from one cartridge to another to enable one to say that a stiffer cantilever, per se, makes for better bass. One way to get relevant data would be to buy two samples of the same cartridge, both bearing what you de... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijo, I have to apologize. Of course you have every right to choose where to spend your bucks and to reject one innovative approach in favor of another. As you know, I waited to buy the Viv Float until we were in Tokyo, and at a time when the yen ... | |
| Rechecking Cartridge Alignment Define "professionally". Do you have a decent protractor, stylus force gauge, and etc, that you once used to align this cartridge? If so, just do it again. Your work is bound to be as meticulous as anyone else's in your immediate vicinity, becau... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Mijo, with great respect, all I’m asking for is a thoughtful cessation of knee jerk negative reactions to the very idea of an underhung tonearm with zero offset. Your point about cost is interesting; you’d rather not spend on an underhung tonearm ... | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge If you want to buy the Hana and are just looking for affirmation here, just buy the Hana. Divergent opinions from strangers whose audio systems and tastes you don’t know will likely continue to appear here for a few weeks. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm As I’ve said before, I’d value your opinion if you would seriously audition an underhung tonearm. That would be a real contribution. The way forward in science, and even in this trivial pursuit of audio excellence, is to seek an explanation for ob... | |
| 12AU7 Gain Question 12AU7 has a mu (usually indicated by the Greek letter for “m”) of 16. If your tubes are all 12AU7s, then mu = 16. Mu is linearly related to gain, usually indicated as “A”. But mu is a product of transconductance (Gm) multiplied by plate resistance... | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge Nagaoka MP500 or MP300. Delicacy of sound is not a monopoly for MC cartridges. I agree with Grado too. | |
| Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge Must you have an MC? In my opinion, there’s more bang for your amount of bucks and your taste if you would consider an MM or MI type. | |
| Tonearm set-up I am not sure what Tomic is getting at by his one phrase answer, "antiskate". Nor am I quite sure what you are asking, because you haven't painted a clear picture, at least in my mind. All I can say is the restriction as to angles may be to acco... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Interesting tidbit, I learned yesterday that Yamaha has been offering an underhung tonearm since the early 80s, as an extra cost option on their GT2000 and possibly standard on the GT2000X. The YSA-2. So the idea is not at all new. Nor was it cate... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? acmaier, Unless you are listening to LPs from the early to mid 50s, most of which will be mono recordings, the importance of having all those equalization curves built into the phono stage has been regarded as overrated by most. Testimony from re... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm On the MP500, I think the spec is for 100 Hz. You have to convert that to 10Hz by multiplying by a factor between 1.7 and 2.0. So that would put the compliance at 10Hz at ~14 to 17cu, which makes more sense. The VE database more often than not s... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm I’ve “discovered” that alignment is important, using the supplied template. I aligned for the first cartridge I auditioned on the Viv (Ortofon MC7500). Since then I’ve simply been swapping out different cartridges each mounted in a different CF he... | |
| Does a record player make that much of a difference?? I found photos of the current headshell at Triplanar. The finger lift is set directly into the side of the cartridge mount, not on a separate piece that also receives the cartridge mount screws. I personally wouldn’t worry about that resonating ex... |