lewm
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| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum I think rebuilding and/or retipping may be a bit like plastic surgery; one is better off not knowing too much about it. Once you do gain the knowledge, the bloom is off the rose. | |
| Does a cartridge that has been in storage for an extended period need play time… Atmasphere, Your experience runs counter to mine. One can never know if a cartridge we like in the present might have sounded even better when it was fresh out of manufacture, so I certainly would not claim that suspensions do not degrade over tim... | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum But didn’t SoundSmith recently introduce the boron option? Which must mean he recently found a source. Some others do too. (Listening to Barton piano concerto #2 which is not relaxing, for the pianist at least.) | |
| ''Óriginal parts'', ''identity '' and ''retip'' conundrum Was it always the case that manufacturers were limited to Ogura and Namiki? Possibly not. If not, then some cartridges with “house built” cantilever and stylus cannot be restored exactly as original, unless the OEM can still do the restoration wit... | |
| Does a cartridge that has been in storage for an extended period need play time… I regularly wake up my cartridges by playing bands 2a,b, and c, of the original Cardas test LP. (The latest version does this at 45 rpm on side 1.) if that doesn’t help, you may have a problem with suspension. On the other hand, I own many 30+ yea... | |
| Experience with DS Audio Optical Cartridge Systems Audioquest4life and Lancelock, I too am in the DMV area, Bethesda to be precise. We really ought to get together for listening to each other's systems. There is nothing like re-affirmation to get the old audio juices flowing. Sorry, I don't own... | |
| Why do my bass drivers shake violently listening to vinyl "The woofer flapping issue is prevalent among people with small woofers that are tuned to go as low as possible. They have to move a lot farther to produce the same results as a large woofer." Only if the bass response is artificially boosted, as ... | |
| van den Hul Colibri - Reconditioning I think you ought to sit back with a shot of whiskey and relax. This is not life and death. Because you read something in a "paper" does not necessarily mean it applies to your particular cartridge, even assuming that you have kept meticulous tr... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono Mulveling, if 65db is not enough gain via the MC inputs, you can use a SUT into the MM inputs. And since you can have anywhere from 50 to 65db gain thru the MM inputs , plus the voltage gain added by a SUT, there is absolutely no cartridge on eart... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono $10K is not cheap. The build quality is very decent but some capacitors in the signal path could be upgraded. I’ve done so in mine. No preamp on earth is worth $90K. I don’t care how many chassis’ are needed for stereo. Steelhead is frequently men... | |
| Best cost no object tube phono I bet that's expensive, given the pretentious descriptive passages on the website. | |
| van den Hul Colibri - Reconditioning Instead of starting a second thread on the same subject as your previous thread, it is a better idea to "bump" your original thread to the top of the list, by posting some new bit of information there. | |
| Experience with DS Audio Optical Cartridge Systems WBF group are not exactly tech experts. | |
| Best cost no object tube phono Problem with an LPS into a 1:15 SUT is you end up with the cartridge seeing a 209ohm impedance. That could audibly attenuate treble, assuming a 47K ohm load resistance across the phono inputs, but Reimac was not complaining about that. The mismatc... | |
| Dustcover Blues Nice finger joints. Dogged determination, for sure. |