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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nikola, I felt that way only rarely as a student, and never after I left high school. If one feels that one is smarter than one's teacher, one ought to move on to another teacher or another school. Anyway, Luigi can think whatever he likes. And an... | |
| Cartrige choice - Zyx or Ortofon or ??? "without getting too crazy as far as price is concerned."I agree.Until now. Nevertheless, their products are always very well made and seem to be totally from in-house, nothing farmed out or generic. | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's Should read, "I will be GETTING the demag soon." | |
| Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's Doug, I am really surprised to read that your nephew thinks the effect may be to reduce or alter static charge. Can you ask him how that could be, when one generally thinks of magnetic fields as they relate to ferrous materials and not at all to s... | |
| Anti Skating adjustment Tobes, I was reporting what I actually did hear. But you have reminded me that on the day I made that observation, the tonearm leads may have been crossed. I just read the Vacuum State reference you kindly provided. What I hear is not quite like w... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? In Japan, I think it is a tradition to pass on high level manual skill from one generation to the next, which is apparently what happened with Koetsu and probably other companies I do not know about. Men who build cartridges for a living are like ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I think we all need to gather our rosebuds while we may. Axel is "over 65". Peter Ledermann is no spring chicken. Mr. van den Hul is elderly as well. I have heard that the guy(s) at Expert Stylus repair are also past middle age. Who will repair ca... | |
| Custom Power Supply for 6v DC Motor Tobias, It's terrible when experience teaches us that there is indeed no free lunch. | |
| Anti Skating adjustment Agreed. I do it by ear. With no AS at all, I hear a dominance of the R channel output and some distortion in that channel. I add AS to the point where the image seems to centralize and the distortion disappears. That endpoint usually requires only... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi, Tim. "I'd want to keep the sonic character as close to original as possible." That's always a concern when one is very fond of a cartridge. Who was the original maker of the Shinon Red? Perhaps they have transmogrified into another company nam... | |
| Pete Riggle Woody tonearm I gather that Mr. Riggle will build the arm with effective mass to suit one's chosen cartridge, which is pretty nifty and rather unheard of among snootier tonearm makers. Of course, anyone far gone enough to order a hand-made wooden tonearm is lik... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? While we are at it, the word is "Shinon", not "Shinnon", for god's sake. "Honnestly", I just don't know why you guys can't spell.If it's OK to talk MC cartridges here, that Ortofon MC7500 must be like unto the Shinon Red. It is very "in your face"... | |
| Clearaudio " Innovation" - What? Dear Rockitman, There can be some "play" in the attraction or repulsion between two magnets. "Play" = compliance. So, even a direct-drive turntable could in that sense be said to have some compliance built into the system. All other turntable driv... | |
| Anti Skating adjustment Dear Maclogan, I really don't know what you are talking about. The fact that the cartridge seeks the spindle on a rotating ungrooved LP does not in any way disprove my statement that it is not a good idea to set anti-skate using an ungrooved LP. T... | |
| Pete Riggle Woody tonearm Dear Mark,I gather you are an aficionado of ZYX. I have heard only one model (the UNIverse) in one tonearm (the Talea), and the combination was superb. So good that I wonder whether there is a special synergy between the UNIverse and either wood t... |