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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,At this point in time, I cannot say what cartridges sound "better" at 47K than at 100K, which anyway is a subjective judgement. But also, as we have been saying, it's an equation with many variables, including load capacitance. A given... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Forgot to mention that I agree with Fleib about loading an MM. It does not make sense to think that 100K would be optimal for all MMs, because there is variation in their inductance and other parameters, from one to the other. We know this just ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Fleib et al, My mistake regarding the compatibility of Pick and Stant styli.I think Raul raises a great point about the relative lack of stability and damping between the stylus assembly and the body of the cartridge that uniquely plagues MM cartr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? bimista, I own both a Pickering XSV3000 and Stanton 881S mk2, also. I haven't looked at them in forever (in fact the 881S is NOS, and I've never opened the box since purchase), but as I recall, Stanton and Pickering stylus assemblies are not cros... | |
| Question regarding the EAR 834P... Pure speculation here, but if there is any money to spend, would it make sense to consider the iPhono2 (rave reviews and only $500) to replace the MF? You might be able to re-sell the MF for that much. Sorry for maybe changing the subject, but A... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave and Chakster, In that case (optimal load = 100K and 80pF) , my memory of what I read in VE is indeed faulty. I’ve been listening to my Ruby at 47K with no added capacitance, lately through a Manley Steelhead, which I think has a hybrid cascod... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chakster, We may be talking past each other. There is a semantic difference between "no ADDED capacitance" and "no capacitance". The former term might imply that there is no actual capacitor placed across the input, to "add" to the capacitance s... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Last night I had reason to unbox my UNItractor (or whatever Dietrich calls his first and most elaborate protractor) in order to align a new cartridge, and I once again was able to appreciate its elegance. It is not a simple device, but I like wha... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Did anyone else get censored for relating a story about what Groucho Marx said about Doris Day? No, I don't think so. Just me.Geoch, I am not quite sure what you are trying to say, but your prose is lovely. Except I think it's "whiskey-tango-fo... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Chakster, Do you mean to say that the JLTi has an inherent input capacitance equal to zero? Even if it's solid state, I doubt that that is the case, but perhaps if it uses a differential cascode input topology, the capacitance can be very ve... | |
| Arm Upgrade Suggestion? I do not understand, nor will I ever understand, why folks pose questions such as this. ("What tonearm, what cartridge, what turntable, etc, etc".) It is an open-ended invitation to confusion, or did you think that 40 eventual responders (or may... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Chakster, Just so you know that life is not so simple, MM cartridges respond to load capacitance as well as to load resistance. Sometimes you can can compensate for the lack of one by using more of the other. Anyway, I don't recall where I picke... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond The five wise guys, instead of 3 wise men? | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Big fan of that Acutex, here too.Every time I go back and forth between the SoundSmith Grace Ruby and the LPM320STR, I change my mind about which I like best. | |
| What is more accurate , the fozgometer or the diplay of the oscilloscoop Neither Mikey nor I are perfect. He wrote (among many other words):"Were the stylus perfectly aligned with the cantilever, cantilever perpendicularity to the record surface would guaranty minimum crosstalk and correct setting of azimuth."He left ... |