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| Is this a bargain? How can one dream of the AT33 competing with the AT1000 without having auditioned both? AT make several LOMCs that lie on their product spectrum between the AT33 and the AT1000 in both cost and performance. Of course one is free to prefer the AT33... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters This is why I am an alignment nihilist and now very fond of an underhung tonearm that has no headshell offset angle (or significant skating force) to worry about. All that’s left to worry about is zenith error. Even a 1 or 2 degree error in zenith... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Mac, I think you’re referring to adjusting the cartridge (not the tonearm) for zenith error, which is worth doing but has nothing to do with setting overhang. OTOH, Wally can probably advise on how to alter headshell offset and P2S, if you’re usin... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters I don’t think I explained it so much as I was trying to point out that if you change recommendation for overhang, you have to change other parameters like headshell offset and P2S, if you want your two null points to lie anywhere in the playing su... | |
| Feel Silly Asking This Question Alignment Parameters Whether you can hear a difference or not, even an 0.5mm error or greater in overhang, provided you don’t also alter other standard parameters, certainly CAN make a drastic difference in locating the two null points, or even whether you actually ge... | |
| Micro Seiki MA707 vs CF-1 17 years later. I’m still here, but my MA505 is long gone. Never even used it but loved the quality machining. | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Mijostyn, I am curious what you mean when you use the phrase "match by a few ohms", where you applied the term to SUTs. As to tubes vs SS, I think you would have trouble supporting the notion that the best tube phono stages are categorically less... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? Mijo, I was under the impression that these re-tippers buy their cantilevers with various styli pre-mounted, for installation on our various cartridges. In other words, I would not have thought the amount of fastener and its placement are choices ... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? Lalitk, Thank you for your kind words. I do nothing now, except occasionally I consult; I am retired. Why I can spend so much time on this forum. Too much. Although I trained clinically in internal medicine and infectious disease, my career was ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? My MC2000 cantilever and stylus are OEM, according to the seller. And the assembly looks like on-line photos of OEM. | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? Inagroove, if you saw glue covering the stylus tip, then there’s no doubt you’re correct, and you were justified if you sent the cartridge back for a re-retip. My Grace Ruby was retipped with sapphire/OCL by SS, and it has a disconcertingly large ... | |
| Step Up Transformers….Are they Worth the Trouble? Simaudio Sutherland (also make outboard head amps operating in current or voltage mode) Pass XP series Atma-sphere MP1 J&R 3180 Phonolinepreamp Manley Steelhead or Chinook Goldnote DarTzeel Many, many more.... (Mind has gone blank.) ... | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? Inagroove, you have some expertise that allows you to judge the proper amount of glue used to fasten a stylus to a cantilever? Did you also look at zenith angle, when you examined that cartridge under magnification? You might be right about the gl... | |
| Anyone ever listened to a vintage Victor Laboratory X1 cartridge Chakster lives?!!! Viva Chakster! | |
| Refurbished / Re-tipped Cartridges - Are they worth Buying? lalitk, You don't need the original designer to replace the cantilever/stylus assembly with parts identical in physical characteristics to those of the original. The question is whether such parts are still available, if the cartridge is very old... |