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| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread Chakster, The DL103 is the particular pet cartridge, especially among US aficionados, for those who dream of getting a lot for a little. (Who doesn't dream of that?) You can find endless threads on Vinyl Asylum devoted to the DL103 and 103R, man... | |
| Retip for zyx Chakster, To say you want to hear the "original" sound of a vintage cartridge is almost an oxymoron. If we define "vintage" as "older than 30 years", then you are buying a 30-or more year old suspension. We have no way of knowing how such an old... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... I believe that the carbon fiber cantilever is an option, available on some of their product; not all ZYX cartridges use it. The rest will continue to use boron. Based on the SQ imparted by CF in the context of some other audio components I have h... | |
| Retip for zyx I am glad this thread got resurrected, because I was interested to re-read JCarr's comments from 2013. For me, the take home lesson is that if you choose to economize by engaging the services of an after-market re-tipper for a "boutique" LOMC car... | |
| Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? Cynic that I am, I cannot help but think that the veritable torrent of Universe variants that we have seen in the US over the past 3-5 years (Uni II, Uni Premium, Uni this, Uni that, and now Uni III) is due to the realization on the part of ZYX th... | |
| Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? So, are you suggesting that what I am seeing in Chakster's photo of his Airy 3 cantilever/stylus is a stylus pressure-fitted to a nubbin of either boron or aluminum, the end of which is glued to a boron cantilever, end over end, telescope-like? (... | |
| Tonearms: Ripoff? I think there is a linear relationship between the cost of any tonearm and performance. A $5500-tonearm will invariably outperform a $5000 tonearm. | |
| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread Interesting discussion. High impedance circuits are more susceptible to noise caused by oscillation, I do know that. I would not have thought that the difference in Z between an MM "circuit" and a LOMC one would make much difference to noise gen... | |
| Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? Nandric, I commented on this in another thread. Chakster posted a photo of his ZYX showing that the stylus is pressure-fitted into the cantilever, not glued. Since the ZYX has a boron cantilever, or so I believe, that would make the ZYX exceptio... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Chakster, That photo of the cantilever/stylus on your Airy III is quite interesting. Didn’t Nandric indicate that pressure fitting of stylus to cantilever can only be done with an aluminum cantilever? Yet ZYX uses boron, I think. Or am I in error?... | |
| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread Dover, You wrote, "Moving coils generated more current and less voltage than MM's. Higher current from cartridge to 1st amplifying device means better noise rejection. Basic physics."I agree with you on the issue of SUT vs active gain stage; I pre... | |
| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread I agree with Chakster and Glen. And Rob, please explain why an MC cartridge would per se have a lower "noise floor" than an MM cartridge. I can't think of a justification for that generalization. In fact, the facts might suggest that the opposi... | |
| Looking for thoughts from Nottingham Analog table owners I skimmed this thread to see whether it's been mentioned before. I don't see it. But I owned a Notts Hyperspace. Its performance was improved by a quantum leap when I added a Walker Audio Precision Motor Controller. Inner detail and bass respo... | |
| VAS (Steven Leung) cartridge repair/retipping service? I checked the website. Apart from "cartridge repair", there is not much info on what sorts of cantilevers and stylus shapes can be supplied. Can anyone supply that info, or at least more than nothing? Thanks. Else I will call him. | |
| Victor TT 101 vs TT 81 After this thread died a natural death, I found JP Jones via this forum and via DIYAudio, as well. JP gained fame among DD-philes by deconstructing the single chip that makes Technics SP turntables run properly and without which they don't run at... |