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| Denon | 110th Anniversary | Silver-Graphite Headshell and DL103 What cantilever and stylus profile would you recommend, in keeping with JCarr advice not to deviate too far from original moving mass? I’ll have to see if I can even find the cantilever-less body. Last time I had it in hand I seriously considered ... | |
| is there a ghost in my machine? Like MC says, keep swapping leads, all the way back to the cartridge itself if necessary, in order to differentiate between a problem in the CJ, phono only or linestage, and then the cartridge and related ICs. Localizing the problem is what you mu... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? May I interject here that if you want to use a low compliance LOMC, and there are many fine sounding examples, then a tonearm with high effective mass is not an evil; it is a necessity both for best SQ and preservation of the LP. Furthermore, VTF... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? No. There is no validity to the notion that the TP sounds muted compared to the FR64S. In fact, the idea is ridiculous without regarding the particular cartridge. | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? I don’t think resistance, pure and simple, is the main possible issue with physical connections in the signal path. For one thing because each physical connection also has capacitance and/or inductance. For another, because very often the first ga... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Chakster, Hasn't your journey revealed to you that there are many, many excellent cartridges and that the differences among the many very good sounding cartridges are in terms of nuances that may or may not appeal to any particular listener. That... | |
| Denon | 110th Anniversary | Silver-Graphite Headshell and DL103 I own a DL103D that got de-cantilevered in one of my very rare audiophile accidents, many decades ago. I kept the body for reasons I can no longer remember, because back then there were no re-tippers and/or there was no internet for them to adver... | |
| Turntable mat journey I don't think there is "a solution". I think mats are much like seasoning on food; each of us will prefer a slightly different flavor. For that reason, and given your low budget, why not use some creativity and try various available materials? O... | |
| Torture test for a TT rig! The Shilabe is a very low compliance cartridge. The Triplanar is considered a "medium" mass tonearm, at 11g. Yes, your problem certainly could be due to a mismatch of very low compliance with a tonearm of inadequate effective mass. A cheap and ... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Not bitter at all. Just concerned to get the facts straight. What I am trying to point out to you, Mijo, is that you critiqued the design of the FR64S and fx tonearms without really being familiar with the design. The gurus who talked us all out o... | |
| Copper, silver, or gold MC cartridge coils? In keeping with what Dover infers about quality control at Koetsu, I purchased two Urushi, Wajima version, over the counter in person from a dealer in Tokyo, with my son acting as translator. When I got back to the US, I found that the cantilever... | |
| The Wand turntable I guess I got too bossy there. I will see if I can find the Aqvox doc that recommends "<20 ohms". My guess is that the vague statement you quote was cooked up by them in order not to lose sales to audiophiles who prefer to use HOMC cartridges... | |
| The Wand turntable Please read the owners manual for the Aqvox. There they do advise using a cartridge with an internal impedance less than 20 ohms. ANY cartridge that fits that description will blow away what you are now using, not necessarily because the BP2 is ... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Mijostyn, I think you are a nice guy, and I enjoy sparring with you, but what does rankle me is your consistent tendency to draw scientific-ish relationships between or among disparate factoids that are very often not at all related as cause-effec... | |
| SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations? Yes, if you insist upon using a "crappy" rack, the SOTA suspension will help. And if you have a lot of warped LPs, vacuum clamp or peripheral ring will help. Also, if you are testing nuclear warheads in your listening room. |