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| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. I took the air out of my own analogy. The last sentence: "The cartridge and the tonearm are doing two entirely different things" should have read, "The cartridge and the TURNTABLE are doing two entirely different things", one in the signal voltag... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Here is why it is a bad question to ask which is more important, turntable or cartridge. Think of a small jazz combo comprising 4 or 5 instruments and players. In such a group, the drum, bass, and/or piano can be thought of as the rhythm section. ... | |
| Rega Planar 3 hum resolve. monko, In this case, the OP had a problem well known to owners of the lower end of Rega turntables; hum that got worse as the cartridge approached the motor. Ralph offered the standard correct solution. No hi-fi rack and no amount of separation ... | |
| MM Cartridge Rauljazz, Did you mean to say you want several "opinions", rather than "options"? You're sure to get more opinions than you can handle. The other reason for not wanting an MC with your phono stage is you would need a SUT to step up the signal vo... | |
| AT-ART9 cartridge on Marantz TT-15s1 - I don't think I'm getting the performance I should Have you done the mirror test as described by Mijostyn? When you do, let us know your result. If, with the mirror test and the cartridge body visibly tilted in the headshell, the stylus tip is not sitting Square in the groove, then I would ignore ... | |
| MM Cartridge With that effective mass you can get away with a myriad of medium to high compliance cartridges. Perhaps you could even lower the effective mass further by adopting a very lightweight head shell, if your tone arm has interchangeable head shells. I... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. You guys are right; I apologize for my part in digressing from the real topic of the thread. To the OP, I would say that my experience over the last 10-12 years, with running up to 5 turntables using 5 different tonearms with dozens of different c... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Mijo, While you were going to medical school in or around Miami, I was going to medical school in NYC. Lyric Hi-Fi and Mike Kaye were in their heyday at that time, and I hung around that store and a few others, like Harmony House on 72nd St all t... | |
| Is a Linn Sondek LP12/Lingo/Ekos with a Cirkus update, the last turntable I’ll ever buy? Davey, I meant no disrespect to Linn or those who love the LP12. Nor is the analogy to a Morgan sports car in any way meant to be insulting; I just thought it was a better metaphor among auto metaphors, compared to using Ferrari as the paradigm. ... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Plus Mijostyn has never revealed exactly which DD turntables he listened to back in the "1970s or 1980s", with what tonearms and cartridges and on what speakers. (Not that it would matter all that much, unless he listened to some decidedly inferi... | |
| Proteus compared to MSL ultra eminent ex That’s a nice simple question. | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. There never was anything special about M-S DD turntables in the first place. By and large, they are cheaply constructed. They made their bones by building enormous metal belt drives. Hence the fact they are now making Techdas, some of which have ... | |
| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. Mijostyn, I have long ago moved on from the Nottingham, after having also moved on from the Sapphire. Each of my five turntables in current use is either direct drive or (one) idler drive, a very highly modified Lenco, which really only uses the p... | |
| Proteus compared to MSL ultra eminent ex To be clear, I don’t think you can say that low signal output per se is a goal of a moving coil cartridge designer. It’s more like that is a byproduct of designing the cartridge to have very low moving mass and very low internal resistance, both o... | |
| Newbie help - Building a system from scratch dekay, I mentioned the very same issues related to the room, just one post above yours. We agree. |