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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, I am not going to say you are categorically "wrong" in some of what you wrote above, but just to say that my set of facts about the 980LZS are different from yours. First, my 980LZS came with an OEM D98S stylus, which is much more of a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? By the way, Raul, what on earth prevents you from revealing the identity of the LOMC that has you so excited? Do you think naming it would cause a stock market crash? We are mature enough to deal with the information without serious consequences t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Albert, I did a search to find the specs of the 980LZS. Apparently the internal resistance is only 3 ohms, which makes it suitable to drive even a 100R load resistor, and in fact I may have tried that with good results, now I think about it. (My 9... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Albert, I would be very careful if using a SUT with the 980 to be sure that you don't end up with a load impedance that is too low for it to work properly. (I am now forgetting what Stanton recommends.) But I think these low output MMs presen... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Albert,Based on previous exchanges with Raul, it seems I like the 980LZS much more than he does. In my system and IMO, it is much more than a "very good performer". If you are dissatisfied with yours in any way, I would be happy to take it of... | |
| Fine tuning azimuth When you say that "the balance is lost", are you referring to channel balance, i.e., are you saying that the signal output from each channel is unstable? I ask because azimuth per se has little effect on channel balance. Azimuth affects crosstalk,... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Ct, I am just like that guy in the video, only without the 'fro.Re customs abuse. I have found that the border between the US and Canada is a much more problematic one across which to send packages than any other. I get capacitors from Russia in b... | |
| Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry? My opinion is that if you care about really precise alignment according to any single one of the standard geometries (you pick), and given that your tonearms all have different recommended P2S, effective length, headshell offset (which may or may ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I will be selling those rubber bands suitable for "cartridge dampening". They will be made of special 100-year-old rubber extracted from the first automobile tires, only. They are then impregnated with silver, gold, pixie dust, and antivibratorium... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? But Mike, the audiophile "can't get no satisfaction.... No, no, no!" | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Long before I encountered this thread, my first inkling that there may be some merit in these "old" MM cartridges was the result of listening to a Pickering cartridge at the home of a friend who was already open-minded enough, sans the input of Ra... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nikola, I did not realize my attempt at camaraderie left you bleeding a la Caesar. No insult was intended. Since I am a doctor, I will send a band-aid and a lovely nurse to install it. Please give me your Paypal address. On a more serious not... | |
| Multiple arms, multiple cartridges and geometry? Dear Mapman,Your alignment template works for your tonearm. It's specific to the Linn tonearm. I cannot imagine how to design a "standard template" that is turntable specific. The turntable does not give a rat's butt what tonearm is mounted on it,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... |