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| Vintage TT - looking to add one - recommendations? In this price range: Lenco L75. I own three top end direct-drives, which I love dearly, but my Lenco holds its own among them. With all due respect, IMO the Lenco if well set up will be superior in many ways to mid-level vintage direct-drives. Dep... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, Sixteen orgasms in a row is not poetry, but you do need a license for it.Dear Raul et al, You may recall my dire prediction that Raul would prefer the original 440 to the 550, after many of us had rushed to buy the few remaining 550s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? "16 orgasms in a row"!!! You could have stopped there. But it might kill me. | |
| Alternative names for "ZYX UNIverse" cartridge Dear Swampwalker, Thanks for the compliment, but I really don't deserve any such. Who could deny your central thesis: "less mass and thus lower inertia"? And it is very appealing to use Newton's Laws thusly to explain Doug's hands-on experience of... | |
| Vintage TT - looking to add one - recommendations? It would help a lot if you would give a price range. Any of the tables mentioned, including your own, can be bettered, if more bucks are involved. | |
| Dynavector 507 MKII + SPU? The 507 has very low mass in the vertical plane. If memory serves, the SPU is a high mass cartridge with low compliance. So there might be a mismatch potential in that mating. I usually see SPUs mounted on 12-inch Ortofon, Ikeda, or Schick tonearm... | |
| Alternative names for "ZYX UNIverse" cartridge Yeah, but the difference in mass between silver and copper is rather negligible, AND conductivity of silver is better by about the same amount, SO IF conductivity has any bearing on it, then one could wind a silver wire coil with correspondingly f... | |
| Alternative names for "ZYX UNIverse" cartridge Syntax, Thanks for helping me out on the Koetsu.Doug, I would have written much of what Don wrote, to justify my doubts about cause and effect, but I did not want to get into it. Also, altho the fact that the difference in conductivity of silver v... | |
| vpi super SSM rim drive vs grand prix monaco To add to the confusion, I don't think you should limit yourself to GP Monaco, as your direct-drive alternative to rim drive. And you could potentially save yourself a lot of money in so doing. | |
| Alternative names for "ZYX UNIverse" cartridge Dear Doug, Thank you for your advice. I note that you couldn't resist taking a shot at the Koetsu, any Koetsu. It's OK. I forgive you. I haven't listened to my Urushi in so long I've forgotten whether to defend it or not. Are you sure you were awa... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Believe me, I am amazed at the amount of listening and judging that you are able to do. My own "listening day" is about 2 hours long, if I am very lucky, except sometimes on weekends. During the week nights, my wife is usually wanting to get... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Do you ever go back to one of your earlier "reference" cartridges, just to get some idea where you are in your odyssey? (Surely, Odysseus himself did not chart so arduous a course as yours through a sea of cartridges.) I guess you do do... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, I particularly am interested in the Luxman tube gear. They made an OTL that looks very interesting, among many other efforts of theirs from the 70s. I still own a (solid state) Luxman T110 tuner that I bought new in the 70s. It is not quite ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Kant! Oy!Dover, Have you, or has anyone here, ever heard the Pioneer Exclusive line of amplifiers? I was for a long time especially tempted by their model 5A (I think it was) which affords balanced operation. Hifido occasionally has a pair to sell... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, Don't you think that, for audiophiles, the descriptive "crap" does have a categorical meaning? Once this or that has been designated as "crap", surely none of us would like to touch it. Unless of course, one man's crap is another man... |