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| Clear Audio Virtuoso Ebony v2 Cartridge I am sure the virtuoso is superior to the black bird. So too are many other cartridges. The black bird just isn’t that good. | |
| Turntable Mats: Rubber, Felt or Cork. Delrin if you’re obsessed with matching to vinyl. TTW used to make them. Colby Lamb can make them. And if you read other posts, what could match the hardness of a vinyl LP better than another LP? At least two others have mentioned that. | |
| Bare cartridge design, Sumiko Blackbird Low Output Cleaning and cartridge design, except in the case of a few historically interesting designs that tried to sink static charge, have little to do with static so you must be doing something else right. | |
| SME V and cartridge spacer I am trying to imagine how a spacer could have an effect on "faulting" at the edge of an LP. Can you amplify on that? I guess maybe you could define "fault". | |
| Bare cartridge design, Sumiko Blackbird Low Output Chakster, although they are a bit better protected than the naked LOMC types, several of our beloved MI and MM cartridges also place the cantilever in jeopardy. And yet I have never damaged one in handling. Also, I have owned two van den Hul LOMC ... | |
| Bare cartridge design, Sumiko Blackbird Low Output I am not a fan of Sumiko cartridges but in fairness I never heard the LO Blackbird. Bare designs can sound excellent. static develops on the LP surface and can attract any type of cartridge. There’s no particular problem with static. Most if not a... | |
| Turntable Mats: Rubber, Felt or Cork. If the OP learns anything here, it ought to be that he has to try a few different types of mat for himself, and then decide for himself which is best. On the scale of the cost of audio things, that is not such a very expensive experiment to do fo... | |
| Turntable Mats: Rubber, Felt or Cork. In my opinion, platter mats are like seasoning of very fine food. Each palate will react differently to one particular choice or another. And fish requires different seasoning compared to beef stew. Although each of us like to think of ourselves... | |
| Turntable Mats: Rubber, Felt or Cork. Slaw, you make a good point about the possible coupling effect of a reflex clamp. In one of my systems I use a Sota reflex clamp. I noted that the interface between the bottom surface of the clamp where it contacts the record label is isolated fro... | |
| When you’re not here who will inherit your system? Nandric, your MC2000 has become my favorite cartridge or close to it, now that I’ve started using a current driven gain booster ahead of my MM phono section to finally make it sing. I will endeavor to take that one with me. | |
| When you’re not here who will inherit your system? No one in my family, least of all my wife, would be able to turn on either of my two audio systems without blowing something up. One of these days, I plan to make a list of the used value of each item, so my survivors can sell the stuff. What th... | |
| Casual Listening Attempt #2 Brinkmann Audio What is the question or problem? | |
| Anyone listen/own to the Yamaha GT-5000 Turntable? Raul, have you ever heard the VivvFloat?I’d like to know what you thought of it. I thought about buying one in Tokyo where they cost about 60% of he US retail price. But did not. | |
| I Need Some Opinions... You wrote, “I need some opinions.”You obviously came to the right place. | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? The SAEC mat is not prone to slipping on the platter surface even without tape and without drilling the LP, but I do use a record weight and will continue to do so. The drilling seems to have been recommended to prevent the LP from moving with res... |