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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I have no idea whether the Glanz mf31L and Astatic MF200 are brothers from another mother, or not. But one could take the specifications you quote for each as a way of proving they are not the same and turn the data around to use as evi... | |
| Mono Cartridge Zyx Airy 3 or Mayajima Zero I have heard the ZYX in another guy's system. It sounded excellent. IMO, you cannot go wrong with either choice. Having said that, I have pretty much decided to buy a Zero or Premium Be Mono, for little more than half the cost of the Zero. | |
| Techinics Sp-10 Mk2a break-in period Norm, Here's the thing: The lamp cord, as I recall, is/was hard soldered to the PS. Then when you ditched that you or someone else installed an IEC connector, to which you plugged in the Nordost PC. In all my audio experience, NO connector has ... | |
| Grace F9 F8 F-9 F-8 Andante F9 F-9 H S Sumiko Pearl Supex Phono Stylus GAS Sleeping Beauty As mentioned above, I recently (less than 2 weeks ago) sent my Grace Ruby, previously OCL re-tipped by Sound Smith, back to SS for re-evaluation, more than 2 years after the original work had been done. As also previously mentioned, it never soun... | |
| old classic phono cartridges You've got several interesting cartridges there. Yes, some of them are competitive with some of the upper end cartridges (in terms of cost) that are available currently. In the end, it's a matter of taste. On the other hand, you've already abso... | |
| Help me choose a mono cartridge I agree that all those are issues associated with choosing a mono cartridge or even just choosing to buy one at all. | |
| TTWeights closing their doors I suppose you could say that my feelings are selfish. The more players there are in the vinyl game, the better and more novel will be the products from which we can choose. The loss of TTW products, good, bad, or indifferent, is a loss to all of... | |
| 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... |