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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, I am surprised no one else brought it up, but the Acutex 320 series also have titanium cantilevers, IIRC.Nandric mentioned AKG. We all know that the unavailable P100LE is nectar of the gods, but what of the P8ES and its derivatives (vdH, etc)... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Voraratc, I suggest you purchase Panasonic capacitors that are available from Digikey, on-line. If they won't ship to Thailand, then perhaps you can do a search in your area for a source of Panaonics. Nichicon and Silmic are superb choices, as wel... | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge Actus, The short answer is, it shouldn't, and it doesn't reflect the actual cost to the manufacturer of that repair. That's why SoundSmith and many others can do the same repair for much fewer dollars. The manufacturer is counting on audiophilia n... | |
| Transfiguration Proteus If anyone wants to sell his or her Orpheus L, in order to purchase Proteus, I am interested. | |
| Ayre Phono P5xe settings low / Med / High ? Sarcher, In principle you are correct, but this cartridge ought easily to drive the Ayre to full output, even at its low gain setting. (I have owned one, and I used it with MM and MI cartridges in balanced mode.) Thus, there is little to be "gaine... | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge Raul, I kind of agree with you on cartridges at that price level. But I am not so sure (any longer) that there is much that is proprietary regarding cantilevers and the styli that are attached thereto. It seems there are only a few businesses in t... | |
| Ayre Phono P5xe settings low / Med / High ? 5mV is about the upper limit for voltage output of a "modern" phono cartridge. Certainly you should use the "low gain" settings in your p5Xe. Be sure also, if you are inexperienced, that the cartridge resistive loading is set for 47K (which I beli... | |
| Moving from CD to analog Here's a shot from the hip: Buy the very best turntable that leaves room in your budget for the other things you will need (tonearm and cartridge, I guess). This means you can spend around $8000 on a turntable. If you are willing to buy a used tur... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, There are so many "best cartridge(s) ever produced" that one could start a collection only consisting of them. I have several "second best cartridges ever produced", but none of the "best".Tomorrow or Wednesday, I will have received my Grace ... | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge Nandric hit the nail on the head. Up until a few years ago, I took the purist approach; if the cartridge needed retip or repair, it needed to go back ONLY to the original maker, regardless of cost. However, at present I have done a "one-eighty"; I... | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge Thanks, Actus.I saw the review by Fremer and just cut to the chase by reading his concluding remarks. Therefore, I missed his description of the issues you have raised. It is very surprising to me that Ortofon would be guilty of such sins of omiss... | |
| Brinkmann vs TW Acustic Dev, I and Suteetat were referring to the audible difference, if any, between 33.3333 (I don't recall how many decimal places Suteetat proposed) and 33.3334, or the like. The software itself (the recording and mastering process) is not accurate to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, By specifically citing Fleib and Dgriffiths, I certainly did not intend to exclude anyone. I realize now that I left out you and a few others who also seem interested in the theory behind these devices. My apologies.I quite agree with y... | |
| Brinkmann vs TW Acustic Suteetat, I quite agree with you that the differences in absolute speed you posit are trivial and probably not at all audible to anyone but a super golden ear, of which there are very few. The real issue is speed stability, the ability of the turn... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I don't really know JE, but he is a frequent contributor on VA and seems to have a legit engineering background. That said, he tends to go by the numbers rather than by the ears in most of his opinions (except he does admit to loading his Denon DL... |