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| High Compliance Cartridge With Low/Med Mass Tone Arm What Raul said was also my point. The manufacturer of the cartridge may publish a single data point for compliance. That does not guarantee that every single one of those cartridges is exactly the same as to compliance. Likewise, there are a lot o... | |
| Playing with Cartirdge loading on my phono stage The bottom line is you cannot hurt anything by experimenting with a wide range of different loads and selecting the one you like best. You could even start at 47K ohms and go down from there in logarithmic steps. But it is probably wise not to go ... | |
| High Compliance Cartridge With Low/Med Mass Tone Arm 7Hz is very close to the generally accepted range, 8 to 12Hz. Given the fact that you really don’t know the exact effective mass or the exact compliance of your particular samples, odds are that you are either slightly below the accepted range or... | |
| Vintage Stanton cartridge — extreme lean to one side normal? What barts so elegantly said, in Italian. You can buy a better replacement for far less than it would cost to repair properly, unless you do it yourself, which does not seem like a good idea. | |
| What are some high impedance cartridges? No SUT is really “for” a high impedance cartridge, except insofar as high impedance cartridges work best with lower step-up or turns ratios, like 1:10 or less or whatever results in a satisfactory impedance match while also adding enough voltage g... | |
| Dynavector DV501 with a Grado? I have a few OEM DV headshells and I can recall it weighs a fraction over 10g. It’s not so much the weight of the cartridge that you need, although that counts toward effective mass, as it is the cartridge compliance. Anyway my advice is to go ahe... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Since a power supply for a coil in a field coil cartridge only has to produce smooth DC, I think, what after all is the difference between a tube power supply and a solid-state power supply for such a device? Is it merely the use of tube rectifica... | |
| Vintage Stanton cartridge — extreme lean to one side normal? It's an un-cartridge, you mean. | |
| Vintage Stanton cartridge — extreme lean to one side normal? If it were me, and given the low value of that cartridge, I would trash it. However, in your 3rd photo it looks as if the whole stylus assembly, to include the black plastic part, which inserts into the cartridge body, is twisted with respect to ... | |
| 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. |