lewm
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| New Koetsu on Ebay from Japan??? As to the potential value of the factory warranty, in my case I found when I got back home in the US that my Koetsu Urushi had a deviated cantilever. I sent it back to the dealer in Tokyo and got a new cartridge with absolutely no problem, becaus... | |
| Brand new Lyra Delos - skewed cantilever I am not sure I understand your hypothesis to explain the skipping of two LPs that apparently still exhibit skipping, but I am gratified to know you found a problem that certainly could cause skipping, and other unpleasant effects. If it makes you... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm Inertia and “effective mass” are interrelated terms (not “mass” alone). I get that the cartridges you like are not especially low in compliance, but that’s beside my point. which is that mass at the pivot does not much affect effective mass. And a... | |
| Brand new Lyra Delos - skewed cantilever Mijo and davey, Just to be clear, I am not claiming that set-up is not important. I am just saying that the gross malfunctions experienced by the OP would usually not be due to small errors in geometry, regardless of the stylus shape. Also, I for... | |
| New 55,000 Euro tonearm Mijostyn, you are consistent in your preference for low inertia tonearms, but we’ve mentioned before that some of the “best” cartridges are low in compliance and work best with higher inertia tonearms. So in a world where we are matching cartridge... | |
| New Koetsu on Ebay from Japan??? The warranty would be honored via the seller if he is authorized, in which case you’d send the cartridge back to him, and he’d interface with Koetsu. So be sure the seller is a Koetsu dealer. This would be the first time I’ve ever heard of a Koets... | |
| Introducing Myself Didn’t your earlier OP contain an advert for your tonearm, which you apparently manufacture and sell to the public? That’s why it was censored. Audiogon will accept ads via a different pathway and for $. But I think you know this. | |
| Brand new Lyra Delos - skewed cantilever Forgot to mention that I focused on friction, because friction is the root cause of skating, for the few who don't already know. | |
| Brand new Lyra Delos - skewed cantilever Tiny amounts of error in alignment are very unlikely to be audible, let alone the sole cause of gross misbehavior of the cartridge, e.g., skipping. I suppose gross over- or under-estimates of AS could do that, but the cruel fact is there is no abs... | |
| My Sonic Labs cartridges Mijostyn, I thought you were waiting for a Lyra Atlas or other high end Lyra, not a MSL. What gives? | |
| MM or MC cartridge for Mm input on Preamp 0.5 mV is no problem for the Steelhead even if your linestage adds zero gain to the phono signal. You previously suggested your cartridge puts out .01 mV, which I took to be a typo since there are no cartridges I know about that have such a tiny o... | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? You’ve made your decision, and we have no real data on that MC2000, dirt vs corrosion, so any further debate is moot. Enjoy your MC5000, and let us know how it compares to the other Ortofons in the same series that you already own. | |
| MM or MC cartridge for Mm input on Preamp If you own a v2.0 Steelhead, which hasn’t changed in at least a decade, you should have its remote volume control, which of course is only relevant if you use the Steelhead as a full function preamplifier. Since you use it as a phono stage, the Ma... | |
| MM or MC cartridge for Mm input on Preamp Presumably the linestage section of your integrated adds gain to the max of 65 db gain you can get from the Steelhead. Incidentally don’t you have a remote for volume with your steelhead? Mine does. But it doesn’t control input, etc. | |
| MM or MC cartridge for Mm input on Preamp I am laughing at myself a bit for not realizing that you must have meant 0.1 mV. There are no cartridges I know of that have an output of only .01 mV. My orto phon MC 2000 is one of the lowest output moving coil cartridges ever made, and it puts ... |