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Apr 18, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? No question that when a particular LP gives a sense of depth and stage location with a particular cartridge in a particular system, there is a lot of serendipity involved. And it certainly has a lot to do with microphone placement and the original...
Apr 18, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I am sure you are all nice guys, but this is going nowhere because we are all talking past each other. We are having to take turns denying that what the other inferred about our position is accurate. Yes, I agree that the language of audio is ofte...
Apr 17, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Plenty of saxophones in a jazz big band. They generally do sit in front of the trumpet section or the trombones if such are present. I hear big bands live all the time in the DC area; I try not to miss such performances, because I do love the soun...
Apr 17, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Larry, Because I disagree with you completely on the subject of "3D". Some systems with some software sources can sometimes deliver an image that has "depth". Sometimes not. I perceive this, so you cannot legislate it out of existence by maki...
Apr 17, 2012	Cartridge upgrade for $600 In that price range, I would suggest you consider remaining in the MM or MI domain. Low end MC cartridges are not necessarily going to be superior to any of the better ones. You could just move up the Ortofon line or consider a Sound Smith MI cart...
Apr 17, 2012	Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? Sorry, John,and anyone else. I did not check the periodic table or even think hard before calling them heavy metals. My bad. Your point about the relative lack of toxicity of Boron (at least in ionic form) was exactly what I was inferring to begin...
Apr 17, 2012	Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? No need to do that, Nikola.I was merely alluding to the fact that on the website, Vidimantas himself brings up the issue of how different woods sound and also how wood in turn compares to various other materials. He then shows some interesting dat...
Apr 17, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, Perhaps I came down to hard on you, but that's because I know you can take criticism as well as deliver it. Anyway, as regards tubes vs transistors, we can agree to disagree. I surely do concede that solid state in the modern era has co...
Apr 17, 2012	Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? Chris, I don't know what you are getting at; it goes without saying that the armboard, the plinth, the coupling between bearing and tonearm or lack of same, etc, etc, will all have a further effect on sonics, beyond the choice of a material with w...
Apr 17, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? OK. The term "musical" to describe an audio component has indeed become controversial in some circles. Those who, like Raul, are on a quest to eliminate all distortions might take it to mean that the component adds a pleasant coloration. "Euphonic...
Apr 16, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, "IMHO", I know what these terms mean and what they do not mean. I know what spurious "colorations" are and are not. I should have known better than to use the term "musical" on this thread. Some audio bits help convey the sensation that one ...
Apr 16, 2012	Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? There are now data on the Reed website that are interpreted to mean that the Red Cedar, Pernambucco, and one other wood are the three best in terms of lowered resonance. I need to go back and look at the data again, but I do not recall that the wo...
Apr 16, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? No question about it, and this is the very first thing I noted about the very first MM I auditioned after joining this thread, the MM/MI alternative does piano better and more realistically than MC, plain and simple. There may be individual except...
Apr 16, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Don, My post on the possible identity between the two 4000DIIIs was a question, not an assertion. Hence the question mark. Does seem beyond the range of chance that the two companies could have arrived at identical names for their styli. Not impor...
Apr 14, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nikola, Do you think Axel can do ruby cantilever/elliptical stylus, so as to restore my broken Ruby to its original equipment? Can he deal with an email in English?It is interesting to me that most of us in the US, especially those who do not trav...