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| Parasound JC3 or Ayre P-5xE Jeepers, I am a tube guy, but I owned the Ayre p5Xe for a year or two as a second phono stage, where the primary phono is a tube unit. The last thing I would ever say about the Ayre (used by me only in balanced mode) is that it is "bright". I foun... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Henry, Groove modulations increase friction, so they are in that sense one and the same. Further, i think you hit on something with your low compliance v high compliance post. If we say that on average low compliance cartridges do not track a... | |
| Do you use variable speed on your turntable? Halcro, When you made your observation with the laser, did you then actually do the experiment of seeing whether you could observe the phenomenon of wandering speed with the Raven, using your KAB strobe and disc? And did the KAB fail to detect the... | |
| Do you use variable speed on your turntable? Ummm... Boys.... How is one to tune one's turntable to A440 or some variant thereof without an LP that bears a recorded A440 tone? A tone generator is only half of what one needs. I know of no test LP that has such a band on it, but possibly one e... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Henry, Why do you think absolute stable speed is more of a factor with MC cartridges than with MM ones? Unless your MCs are mistracking, it should make no difference. And mistracking would have little to do with speed stability, so I am puzzl... | |
| Turntable speed accuracy What Viridian said and Halcro hinted at. More important is stable speed regardless of groove modulation, as opposed to bang on 33.33 rpm. If a table can stay at 32 rpm whilst tracking any and all passages, then it could probably be adjusted to run... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There is much merit in what you and Durand say. For what it's worth, I attend live performances at least twice a month, mostly jazz, either in night clubs or at the Kennedy Center in DC. The Terrace Theater at the KC has some of the best acoustics... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? You guys scared me into checking the contents of the box that came to me from Italy. Fortunately for me, I seem to have gotten a bona fide 420. One wonders how an NOS 415 (or 412?) crawled into an NOS container for a 420, if I understand the situa... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Rich (Rnadell), Please tell us what WAS inside your box that was supposed to be a 420. And what excuse did you get from the vendor, and what is he going to do about what should be HIS problem, not yours? | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, As to your post about the absolute judgement of cartridges vis a vis the real sound of music, my opinion is "yes and no". As you say, it is a very complex subject. It would be easy if there were one cartridge that could be taken as "the... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nicola, The prices you quote are for the whole cartridge with stylus, correct? The last OEM D98S stylus I ever saw for sale was from pickupnaalden. He wanted about $300 for it. While I digested the asking price, it got sold to someone else, a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, If you read my post, you can see where I clearly say that I own the 980LZS. (There is no such thing as a "991", as far as I know.) I have never heard the 980HZS. I know that Raul has stated here that he prefers the HZS. It's an acade... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Griffithds, I believe there are one or two Grado MMs that do cost over a thousand dollars. However, in general you are correct, and even the most expensive Grado is not in the ballpark of the cost of the most expensive MCs. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, To answer your question, I would have had to be present at the original performances. There would be a difference too in terms of where I was sitting in the concert hall or night club. I accept both cartridges as alternate facsimiles of... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? Dear Halcro, Prompted by Geoch's posts above, I read up the thread from there and came to your post about the unusual behavior of your motor/platter with the 1.8kg M-S copper mat on it. What is the weight of your platter alone? If the weight of th... |