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| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Dynavector D series cartridges also have a diamond cantilever, but what was your point? | |
| Parts for Dynavector 501 Tonearm Ditto | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge pairing. With all due respect, If you're interested enough to post here about a vague sense that you are not getting the most out of your cartridge, then you also ought to make the effort to learn a little bit about the intricacies of vinyl so you become b... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? No argument with Frogman. For me the most astonishing aspect of live music is the transient response and dynamic range, compared to home audio. There’s plenty of “distortion “ in a live club venue due to bad rooms and ambient noises, but the sense... | |
| Excel Sound Corp ST 1 step up transformer Based on comments by Chakster, Dover, and Raul, this appears to be an obsolete unit, maybe sold in the 1980s, and very rare; the OP lives in Sweden. So you’d be very lucky to find one, let alone audition it. Raul suggests that the modern equivalen... | |
| Tonearm/Cartridge pairing. Nothing in your OP suggests you’re having a problem associated with resonant frequency. What is it that makes you concerned about effective mass and cartridge compliance? | |
| Ortofon MC Cartridge Problems ?? Mulv do you really think two randomly selected samples of the Quintet were so defective that the stylus and cantilever were pulled out by ordinary use? I don’t. | |
| Cartridge question I think made by Ortofon. Google it. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I think I’ve already said this: CDs and DVDs inevitably bore me. You could say it’s because my Ayre C5Xe-mp CDP isn’t good enough. Top quality LPs kill it. Hi-rez streaming is another matter. That’s where modern digital can shine. But I won’t give... | |
| Ortofon MC Cartridge Problems ?? Provided the cartridge was not mounted in some very bizarre orientation, like sideways or dialing in a crushing amount of VTF, I cannot imagine any cartridge/tonearm incompatibility that could do this, and I do regard Ortofon cartridges as very we... | |
| Early SOTA vs New Something: Conundrum Mijostyn, I apologize for the vitriol, but you really should not be commenting on areas of the hobby with which you are not familiar, and here you’ve done it again. Different companies have taken very different approaches to DD turntable design wi... | |
| Dr. Feickert Turntable Antiskate is an option? Or what? Seems your setup team should have noticed a priori. Some eschew antiskate and say they’re getting great results, but it’s undeniable that there IS a skating force generated by any conventional pivoted tonearm, and ... | |
| Ortofon MC Cartridge Problems ?? It is normal for the cartridge to track toward the label in the dead space between the last cut on the LP and the label, even when antiskate is properly set. But the stylus tip should not actually make contact with the paper label. I’m imagining t... | |
| Parts for Dynavector 501 Tonearm Mike Pranka is the name I could not conjure, the Dynavector distributor in the US. You're in good hands. I thought Colby was back up and running. Sorry. | |
| Eminent Technology ET-2 Tonearm Owners I normally don’t contribute to this thread, because I do not own and have never owned an ET2 or 2.5. However, I concede that it is probably a great tonearm. But when you speak of Newton, keep in mind that the net force exerted by a small weight at... |