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Mar 21, 2012	Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry? "...you mean that when I set up a cartridge on one arm with, say.....Baerwald geometry......it doesn't mean that it will be correct if I change to another arm with a different pivot to spindle distance and overhang?"Yes; it will not be correct. Bu...
Mar 21, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, Have you read "Spies of the Balkans", by the American novelist Alan Furst. A great WWII spy story, one of many written by Furst, but it shows that Balkans have guile, if not always a sense of humor. Of course, the Nazis were not funny...
Mar 21, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think the Fukushima earthquake as registered several hundred miles away in Tokyo was in the 7's. My son said all the office buildings on the street where he works (in Tokyo) were swaying in unison, like a group of hula dancers. He was terrified,...
Mar 21, 2012	Turntable speed accuracy No argument here. It does use fishing line for a drive belt, which would have little elasticity, at least.
Mar 20, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,I just read about the major earthquake you have suffered in Mexico City. I hope that you and your family and friends are all OK.
Mar 20, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Don,IMO, neither Audiogon nor Paypal will help you with this problem, so your best bet is to stick with the seller and hope that eventually he will see the light. You do quote him as having written: "I don't know how I can help you but I'm wi...
Mar 20, 2012	Turntable speed accuracy Albert, Will talk to Bill this week on that subject, I hope.I guess there is not much juice left in this topic. Here's a tidbit. I noticed someone on Vinyl Asylum out up a URL for a new line of turntables, made by a company called "George Warren"....
Mar 19, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I tend to think you can trust Steve's (Vetterone's) judgement. He is a pro, and he says he has done it for many different MMs. But read his instruction carefully (I am saying this to myself as well as to you); just a tiny drop in a f...
Mar 18, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dean, I guess some are tight and some are loose. There's a joke in there somewhere, but I am not trying to find it. Someone else sent me a long directive on how he actually does major surgery on Stantons to correct the loose fit. It involved ...
Mar 18, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, Yes, I think of our friend Raul as a GPI, while I walk through the forest of vintage cartridges. He tells us where we are.Dear Raul, I take your point about distortions, but for me it is a distinction without a difference. I take it ...
Mar 18, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Citizen Steve, By the term "stylus holder", do you refer to the "stylus assembly", the entire element that comes out when one removes the stylus from the "body"? I found a similar strategy worked very well with my Stanton 980LZS. Apparently S...
Mar 17, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, Did you listen to the Acutex LPM420? If not, perhaps you should open one up and give it a try. It is not a given that the opinions of others will govern your results. Raul got into this MM stuff by having an open mind and by disregard...
Mar 16, 2012	the perfect tonearm Dear Franz, Unless the bearing of the Clarify CF is radically different from that of the Clarify, I don't know why you would even consider it, given your experience with the latter (and assuming you correctly assessed the cause of the problem). Th...
Mar 14, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Tom, I bought a second Grace Ruby that is really like new except for the small detail that its cantilever was wiped out along with the stylus. I intend to have it rebuilt, most likely by SoundSmith. As you may know, they offer a ruby cantilever...
Mar 13, 2012	Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think it boils down to the fact that what you hear when listening to a record is the sum of a myriad of factors that govern the sound quality. And to make it more complex, those factors interact with each other in unpredictable ways. Therefore, ...