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| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Must be a strain gauge cartridge. It’s not a matter of simply removing offset. The stylus tip must also underhang the spindle. You don’t want one without the other. | |
| Coil vs. Cart impedance To be specific, "impedance" is a frequency-dependent reading of resistance. The impedance is different at different frequencies, so to be completely useful, the frequency or the range of frequencies should be stated, but most often is not stated.... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Just to note that Tom uses the term zenith and the term headshell offset angle as if they were synonymous. For me, and in all my comments above, the term Zenith is used to refer only to the angle of the mounting of the stylus tip in the cantilever... | |
| Coil vs. Cart impedance “On paper” your cartridge should be loaded with 500 ohms or higher. However, whatever floats your boat. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm It would seem to me that the skating force does much more to prevent the stylus from being “centered in the groove” than TAE. AS is all we have to counter skating but AS can only be correct at one or two moments of play, because it’s constant in m... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm What if the issue is skating force? | |
| Retipping Rega Apheta 3 Stylus By Andy@ Needle Clinic This is the 3rd thread devoted to the wonderfulness of Andy Kim. Just saying. | |
| Technics SL 1200 GR If it’s P3 vs GR, go with GR. You’ll be satisfied for years to come. Or even vs P6. | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge Trust but verify. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm No RIAA correction? | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge I am saying that inspection by a competent disinterested professional third party is what I would require if I were to buy a pre-owned megabuck cartridge. Speaking for myself only. I guess you don't agree, and that is fine. | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge If you are inferring that there is some risk to the seller, I would think not, if you both (seller and buyer) choose an inspector who is well known to the audio community and with an impeccable reputation, like Peter Ledermann, etc. Or even bette... | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge Like I said, trust but verify with an independent expert. I'd go that route without a second thought. | |
| Experience purchasing a used high-end cartridge I don’t know how anyone else’s experience could bear on your decision, unless you unearth another person who bought an LOMC from the same source. If you’re really insecure, ask the seller if you can have the cartridge inspected by a trusted retipp... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm This morning being a leisurely Sunday morning, I re-read the entirety of this thread from beginning to end, although I admit I skipped through some of those from naysayers that I already knew by heart. What struck me is that each of the major prot... |