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| PTP Audio vs Garrard 301 The second review says the idler drive “frees” one from the “problems of direct drive”. That’s a new idea to me for sure. I wonder what those problems are, in comparison to idlers. In neither review do we get a same tonearm, same cartridge compari... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Doggie, was joking about having a fragile ego. If you read about Nagaoka cartridges on Raul’s MM thread, the MP50 and 500 were very often referred to as MM types or else without specifying the transducer type. I guess that’s where I picked up my i... | |
| Tube PHONO preamp interference - RFI, EMI, bad grounding? Assuming the OP lives in the US, I think it's a bit too simple to blame his issue purely on bad grounding, if you listen to the recorded noise up above. First of all, there is an intermittent burst of 50Hz noise. In the US, we use 60Hz AC, and i... | |
| Dynavector DV501 with a Grado? With the DV501 (or any DV tonearm), you have good control of the effective mass in the vertical plane, because it’s virtually identical to the mass of the headshell plus cartridge body plus any hardware fasteners, due to the very short and lightwe... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? If you think the Quad57 is inherently limited, you ought to hear 2 or 3 pairs that have been modified by Dave Slagle and direct driven in unison by a pair of his amplifiers. Plus or minus a subwoofer. To die for. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Doggie, you have delivered a crushing blow to my fragile ego. Based on the English translation from the Japanese, I’d say you and Raul are correct. My interest in Nagaoka just went up a notch. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? “Magnet on the cantilever“ is the definition of a moving magnet cartridge. In the other hand, I respect Raul’s fund of knowledge. Need more evidence. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? mglik, Keep in mind that when you "heard" the $25K cartridge, every other piece of gear in that system, which I take it was new to you, was also different from your own rig, not to mention the room itself. Therefore, it is folly to attribute the f... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? I like MI cartridges very much. You might even say I prefer them to MC cartridges, as a group. Then along comes the crazy Ortofon MC2000 with its vanishingly low voltage output. It responds well to a current drive input, and it might be my favo... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this In a 30 year old unit, hum is not surprising and it need not have anything to do with the subject. Your logic makes some sense regarding phono stage gain. Good point about phono gain at tape outputs being 46db. The fact remains that a SUT is not n... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this mulveling, Perhaps you know this unit much better than I do. My info was taken from the "specifications" section of a 1990 review of the SP14, published in TAS. Based on those data, it appeared to me that the phono section alone has a gain of 66d... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this There's nothing per se wrong with having those 100 ohm load resistors on an MC input, most of the time. So, I would not see the point of removing them except if one wanted to load an MC cartridge with a higher resistance. The problem seems to ha... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this By the way, when we speak of MM inputs vs MC inputs, those are euphemisms for low phono gain (usually 40 to 50db) vs high phono gain (usually >60db). Also with your SUT set at its 40 ohm mode(1:10 ratio), and into those 100 ohm resistors, the l... | |
| Added an SUT...not sure I understood this You came here for help, and several knowledgeable people have tried to help. You ought to be open minded about accepting advice, since you clearly do not have an in depth understanding of what you’re doing. There’s nothing wrong with that, unless ... | |
| How many plays can you get out of a good record? In the 1980s when many of the best cartridges were MM or MI types, I’d guess the average VTF was somewhat lower than it is today or not higher at least. |