lewm
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| They should charge more for it… With all due respect, the testimony of your buddy delivered third person and without any backup information (like does your buddy have a conflict of interest, what else in the system besides Wilson speakers, which Wilson speakers, what TT did the ... | |
| They should charge more for it… Funnily, I have never liked anything audiophilic that is made from carbon fiber, except some Yamamoto and Oyaide headshells I bought in Tokyo. CF tonearms (e.g., the one made by WB) and speakers to my ears have a dull-ish coloration that I find a... | |
| antiskate disc Yeah, the AR XA tonearm had many more flaws than merely the absence of AS. But Vilchur was an articulate and erudite defender of it. | |
| MM Cartridge recommendation Forgot to mention the obvious and often noted fact that Nagaoka MP cartridges are MI types, not MM. Not that there is anything wrong with that. They work fine into any phono stage that offers a 47K ohm load and at least 40db of phono gain. (A lit... | |
| antiskate disc Come to think of it, when the original AR XA was marketed (late 60s or early 70s), most of us were using very light weight, very low VTF MM or MI cartridges (e.g., Shure and ADC). Low cartridge weight and low VTF make for a low skating force, com... | |
| antiskate disc Say what you may about the low recommended VTF of Shure, ADC, and several other vintage cartridges, but the fact is they had very high compliance and tracked LPs just fine at the factory recommended VTF. It’s not logical to condemn low VTF per se ... | |
| MM Cartridge recommendation Mwh, when you say MP200 is a sweet spot, does that mean you have auditioned several others in their line-up? | |
| White debris on front of cartridge Schmutz won't foul the operation of an optical cartridge? | |
| EAR Phonobox = HORRIBLE Viridian, Sorry for my somewhat vitriolic response. | |
| EAR Phonobox = HORRIBLE What you are experiencing is certainly NOT due to an impedance mismatch between phono stage and linestage (contrary to Viridian's suggestion). The ratio is about 1:9. That is barely different from 1:10 and anyway at that level there would be no ... | |
| EAR Phonobox = HORRIBLE One would have to agree there is a problem, but you provide no information on which to base even a guess as to the cause. If you just bought it, complain to the seller. | |
| White debris on front of cartridge Seriously (as opposed to my previous post), the difference you are seeing between the two cartridges accumulating white schmutz is probably only due to some difference or differences in the shape of the cartridge bodies such that one is more prone... | |
| White debris on front of cartridge The technical term for that stuff is “Schmutz “. | |
| Luxman PD121A - PD441 Sometimes posts you expect to be deleted, don't get deleted. And sometimes vice-versa. Depends upon the beer supply I expect. | |
| Opinions on a Grace F8c for a freshy chridabs, The other guys correctly point out that you need not buy the most expensive replacement stylus assembly for the Grace. I did, however. Mine has the sapphire cantilever and their precision line contact stylus. I think I paid $350. No do... |