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| What defines a good tonearm Dear Stevecham, You wrote, "A properly designed unpivot arm does not rock due to stylus tracking simply because the design has the stylus aligned with the pivot point". I completely agree with you, but who said that in the first place? I did not s... | |
| What defines a good tonearm This is a very intelligent, reasoned discussion. It seems we all agree on certain major points as regards the advantages and disadvantages of unipivot designs vs fixed bearing designs. And I like that Hiho mentioned the issue of azimuth adjustment... | |
| Grace F-9 Hi Rich, The Ruby by all accounts is by far the best of the bunch, so maybe you should look for a spare stylus assembly rather than an F9E. I could be wrong. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dlaloum,So your Pickering would be equivalent, I think, to my Stanton 980LZS vs the HZS version. As I mentioned earlier I was fortunate enough to find an NOS Pickering 7500 stylus to be used eventually to replace the D98S stylus in my Stanton... | |
| EAR 324 vs Einstein The Turntable Choice I think it is "dangerous" to draw conclusions after only a very brief listen to two components, especially when it sounds like you are not being rushed to make a decision. The aphorism "all that glitters is not gold" is applicable to audio compone... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Nandric and Acman, I am a bit disappointed in the integrity of some who sell these unusual items. One company we know about says on their website that "all" their styli are NOS, when we know thanks to others that this is not so, at least for their... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? With regard to Acman's question, I am wondering whether or not there is some double-talk on that eBay ad. The seller is allowing us to think that the elliptical stylus on the cartridge is an original made-by-Nagatronic stylus that was offered as a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Here it is:http://www.kubotek.com/haniwaaudio/p_cartridge.htmlInternal resistance (shown here as "output impedance") = 0.8 ohms!!!Inductance = 1.3 microhenries!!!! Yes, that's "micro", not "milli", as we are used to seeing for MM cartridges.Yet, o... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Nandric, I don't know about the totality of your report of what Mr Lukashek says, but yes, as far as I know the number of turns of wire in the coil is the major determinant of cartridge inductance.Dear Travis, You got it..."Haniwa" was the gu... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Hiho, I was looking for your dog. Thanks. But be careful using the word "syntax", or you will conjure up Syntax himself, that man of mystery. | |
| What defines a good tonearm But it is the stylus tip that follows the groove, not the tonearm. If the pivot is not fixed, then energy transmitted to the stylus tip by the undulations of the groove wall, which is "music", can be lost via "wiggling". Ideally, the arm wand shou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I have often seen the statement that LOMCs make current rather than voltage. Since I lack formal training in electronics (beyond college physics), I am always cautious about my own thoughts on these subjects, but it seems to me that this is market... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Mike,You wrote, "anything not a unipivot will always be fighting itself to travel the groove correctly". I don't get that. Can you elaborate? IMO, the "issues" facing unipivot design are precisely those related to the possibility that the bea... | |
| What defines a good tonearm Dear Manitunc, To respond to the closest thing to an answerable question that you have posed, with a unipivot there are issues related to not only adjusting azimuth but also maintaining a constant azimuth across the surface of an LP. The Graham an... | |
| Reed tonearm w/ Raven One table-how's the match ? Dear Opus88, I guess I meant it either way. If you own the tonearm, then pick your cartridge to match it. If you own the cartridge and are shopping for a tonearm, it's vice-versa. The important point is that assuming the tonearm can be mounted on ... |