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| Help me choose a mono cartridge Rshak, I was interested to read that you contemplate replacing a Helikon Mono with a 2M Mono SE Ortofon. Would you care to amplify on the rationale for that? I ask only because the Helikon Mono is much more expensive and has been highly praised. | |
| TTWeights closing their doors So you took a look at the landscape of the audio business and made a calculated decision to take the money and run. That's fine. I, for one, am happy for you. I see no reason for your evident anger. Good luck. | |
| TTWeights closing their doors TTW, I have seen your work, own some of it, and I fully see your point about quality. Do I detect some ambiguity as regards your going out of business? That is, will you continue to make product on special order or something like that? Platter ... | |
| TT Speed Control/ Phoenix Roadrunner and Eagle Review The ear is king. I will never forget the improvement wrought by a Walker Audio Precision Motor Controller on the sound of my Nottingham Hyperspace tt. It was jaw-dropping, especially because I was a complete sceptic to begin with; I was not prepa... | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty Whoops! Those prices are for the complete head units, not for re-tipping. | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty Prices on the OCL w/Ruby and the CL w/Ruby have risen considerably since I had the work done on mine, each by $150. | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty Thanks for that input, Al. I am more and more thinking I should ask Peter to simply replace the OCL with their less exotic line contact ("level 2") stylus, assuming he will find no other problem unique to the original re-tipping of my cartridge. ... | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty I own a Grace tonearm and two Grace Ruby cartridges. I was surprised to read that Grace and Sumiko could be associated, because I have never particularly liked the sound of any Sumiko label cartridge, whereas I count the Ruby as one of my all tim... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Sorry. I get it; you meant to say that the person who claimed that the Zero would not damage a stereo groove was incorrect, and you cite the blurb from the Miyajima website as evidence. Seems like you're correct. Fremer misspoke, if it was Fremer... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dover, It has long been my observation that your major goal in participating in this discussion is to "prove" by the force of insistence that your particular Final Audio turntable is "the best". Secondary goals are to prove that the finest direct... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game I know much less about the subject of stylus tip shape than does Fleib, but I don't see a problem using a conical (also known as "spherical") tip to play a mono LP. The "more advanced" shapes, from elliptical on up, were designed primarily to enh... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? For me, there's no perfect way to measure the phenomenon we are trying to understand, so I prefer listening tests. Listening tests are inevitably subjective in nature. However, lately I have been doing a lot of listening to my SP10 Mk3 as the Kr... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Sorry, Dover. I was cranky that day. | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Thanks, Johnny. I've been staring at the ads for the AT33Mono on eBay for at least several months. After re-re-reading the Ortofon blurb on the 2M Mono SE, which so far as I can tell is ONLY available from Ortofon directly, I am now in doubt as ... | |
| A new player in the quality Mono cartridge game Fleib, I am rather surprised that a person as knowledgable as you are would say this: "That cart tracks at 3.5g (4g max) with a spherical tip and will tear up a stereo groove."First, if I would ever use the Zero (or whatever mono cartridge I event... |