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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? "Astatic 4000DIII" = Empire 4000DIII?Dear Nikola, I think Fleib's proposition that NOT all cartridges will sound best into a 100K, high-capacitance load is more analogous to the proposition "NOT all Croats are traitors".I'd like some of the collec... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Flieb, You wrote, "I can't help thinking that loading some carts at 100K and adding 200 or 300pF + cables, is the wrong approach." I cannot help but take Nandric's didactic approach to this statement. It would not be surprising that for "some cart... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, An issue that came up early on in this thread, and which was never definitively resolved, was what happens to the suspension of an MM or MI cartridge after 30 years post-manufacture. There is a good possibility that it may have stiffened up ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, Despite all my efforts to cut back the gain in "our" modified MP1 phono stage, including going to the ECC99s and reducing the values of the plate resistors, I still can barely get the volume control past 9 o'clock with the Ortofon MC7500, a ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Addendum: Given the 1mH inductance, mating the 980/981LZS with a SUT into an MM phono stage would be highly problematic, I would think. At least it deserves some thought as to the choice of SUT. (A typical LOMC will have way less than 100 micro-he... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, The quoted ".06mV/cm/sec" is not actually different from "0.3mV"; it's just a different way of expressing output. Classically, cartridge output is rated at a velocity of 3.54 cm/sec. So that would be ~0.2mV by usual criteria for comparing th... | |
| Empire 498 Contact Ralph Karsten at Atma-sphere. He is a connoisseur of Empire TT's and can advise you on what you might want to do to return yours to good operating condition. Very worth the effort, as far as I know. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nikola would love Rocky and Bullwinkle, I think. There is a pretty good movie, but the original cartoons are better, Nikola. I bet you can find some on Youtube. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dostoyevski and Kierkegaard. Later, Sartre.Albert, I am green with envy that you got that Stanton. Darnit! If you hate it, please keep me in mind. I have not been watching Audiogon for that gem. I gather you have not got your Mk3 back from Bill. | |
| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? Yes, Steve's tome started out talking about azimuth, so when he got to talking about anti-skate (abbreviated "AS") I did not originally pick up on the change of subject. Mea culpa. Doug Deacon has also been a critic of the AS device on the TP, but... | |
| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? Dear Steve and Nikola, Thank you both for describing the 3P. I can't quite visualize the new way of adjusting azimuth, but I take your word(s) that there is no step backward, only forward with the 3P.Steve, can you elaborate what you mean when you... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Was my dream too, in college, to become Dostoyevski. In medical school, I lived in a basement apartment by myself, in the Bronx (blue collar part of New York City). I hated medical school in that year of my life, but I did not wish to go to Vietna... | |
| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? I agree with Geoch on the issue of azimuth adjustment. I really like the Reed tonearms that rotate the headshell but not the arm tube. Geoch (and Nikola), are you saying that the 3P now adjusts azimuth by rotation of the arm tube? Does Vidimantas ... | |
| Vocals sound slightly high pitched? Anti-skate affects pitch??? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I was feeling bad for perhaps being too harsh, Nikola, but your responses were great fun to read. So thanks for your sense of humor, Balkan or otherwise. FWIW, I do not much care for parts swapping. I take much more pride in thinking up ways to ch... |