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| 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 ... | |
| Reed tonearm w/ Raven One table-how's the match ? I am surprised that no one else seems to have focused on this, but there seems to be a consensus (elsewhere) that you pick your tonearm to match your cartridge, not your turntable. If the turntable is doing its own job well, then it will collabora... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Depends on how you define "LO", does it not? LO for an MM could be anywhere from around 1.0 mV at 5cm/sec down to 0.15 mV. That's a ~10-fold range. So if we have a reasonable output of say 0.6mV, that's only about a 7 to 8 fold different... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dlaloum, Could you be channeling the Golem from Lord of the Rings? My kids and I loved that character as he was depicted in the movie. "And what does it have in its pocketses, my precious? A Sussuro?" | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Thuchan, Lest anyone else pick up on what you wrote, I did make a point of saying that I was NOT making a "judgement" of the MC A90 as compared to the Sussuro. To further quote myself, "the [listening] conditions did not permit that". Believe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Fleib, I heard the Sussuro in several systems at RMAF last October. It sounded consistently excellent, and IMO sounded less "mechanical" than some very expensive MC cartridges, including in one case the Ortofon MC A90, but this is far from a ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Not to beat a dead horse, but I think Dertonearm posited that the difference in observed capacity to pass a square wave was due to differences in moving mass, and in so positing, DT stated that MC cartridges have lowest moving mass. I only respond... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dertonearm, Nice to know you might have been an admirer of my Grado TLZ. It was my one and only cartridge during the mid to late 80s. Over the years, I kept it in storage while I was preoccupied with a variety of high output MCs and finally low ou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I don't pretend to have a lot of technical expertise about how cartridges work, except on a basic level. But here is a quote from M Fremer, from his review of a SoundSmith cartridge:"Moving-iron designs such as the SMMC1, or the Grados, use statio... | |
| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy Thanks, Rob. You are most likely correct. Fletcher's idea of how to use the motor was closely allied to that of Lloyd Walker, except Lloyd uses a much heavier platter than did any of Tom's designs (well, never saw an AnnaLog or a Dias in the flesh... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Dertonearm, To elaborate on what I think T_bone was getting at, of the 3 basic types of cartridge, MM, MI, and MC, the MI type will tend to have the lowest moving mass, not the MC type. This is a matter of fact as told to me by Peter Lederman... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Who is pushing you to talk about FR tonearms? I don't even have an opinion yet about mine. I am trying to talk about your dogmatism regarding your equipment choices. It's OK to love what you have chosen to own, but that does not make everyon... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Henry, Both knees at once? You definitely do deserve a sponge bath from a "private duty" nurse.Raul, I am sorry to have made that crack about your need to feel superior, but you must know it is very aggravating to discuss these matters with you, b... | |
| Nottingham spacedeck motor - driving me crazy As you may know, that motor is never "off". The push you give to the platter seems to engage some sort of clutch to then drive the platter properly. My guess is that there is some critical loss of torque for some reason, such that the motor cannot... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Fleib, The other factor, which I have mentioned before, is the accuracy of the data we are given for tonearm effective mass and for cartridge compliance. We never know how fastidious tonearm makers are about calculating the figures that th... |