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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...
Apr 14, 2012	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...
Apr 13, 2012	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...
Apr 12, 2012	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 ...
Apr 12, 2012	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 ...
Apr 11, 2012	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...
Apr 11, 2012	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...
Apr 11, 2012	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.