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| 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. | |
| Newbie help - Building a system from scratch In addition to the idea of ordering speakers you can return, look to see whether there are any local audiophile societies or groups in your area, and then go listen to as many different systems as possible, before you start ordering speakers you m... | |
| Is a Linn Sondek LP12/Lingo/Ekos with a Cirkus update, the last turntable I’ll ever buy? I don’t want to pile on top of the heap of LP 12 naysayers, but I guess I will in a way. Regarding the metaphor comparing the LP 12 to a Ferrari, I would say it is more apt to compare the LP 12 to a Morgan sports car. Still doggedly being built in... | |
| Proteus compared to MSL ultra eminent ex Just in general, Ortofon over Clearaudio. But that's just me. The Ortofon cartridges in general give you a better bang for the buck, tend to be more neutral in tonal balance. The better CA cartridges are expensive and tend (I say "tend") to sou... | |
| Proteus compared to MSL ultra eminent ex I always go by a guideline that says to buy the second costliest version of any line of similar product from any one company. The second costliest is usually quite a bit less expensive than the top of the line and usually has all of its major fea... |