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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I have never done anything like this, save to observe (as a child) that after you mess around with paper clips and a magnet, the paper clips become weakly magnetic themselves. So my experience is comparable to that of a cave man with fire. On the ... | |
| Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers.... Violin, The Micro is an excellent set-up, but I would say that the value of that tonearm puts the combo out of the "budget" category for many, and the 505 is hardly undiscovered. None of this matters to your enjoyment, of course. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? The Cardas test LP has a band or two that are supposed to demagnetize an MC cartridge. I wonder whether that might help or hurt your stylus assembly, if indeed your hypothesis is correct. (Although you might think it would be bad for an MM cartrid... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea What do you mean by "too clear"? I ask because "clear" would seem to be a desirable quality, and I don't know that one can have too much of it. Do you mean to imply that the sound is "clinical", in the way that solid state can sound if you are use... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, If Shane had written "Moops" the first time, we could have been further along. What's a "Mook"? I thought it might be another one of those uniquely Australian marsupials.Timeltel, Would it be possible to attempt to restore the magnet by pl... | |
| Direct Drive TT...vintage era....sleepers.... The Technics tables have already been "discovered", but like others have said, I would look for the better Pioneer, Kenwood, Victor, Sony, and Denon tables. IMO, they are all "sleepers" and still quite affordable. (Well, maybe the Sony and Denon p... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Mike, I did not want to bring it up the other day on this thread, because I thought it was OT, but I thought the Puritas sounded fabulous in the Reed on the Beat turntable. In my brief listening, I preferred it over the A90, in that system. I gues... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea I am really sorry I did not stay long enough to hear the Basie LPs. I am very familiar with that music and that session and might have gotten a better idea about what was going on with the tonearms. Prior to that, and up to the time I retreated to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dgob, Neither disappointed nor angry. (Why on earth would I be angry?) Please re-read it if you don't get it. Trying to say we should not take ourselves or this discourse too seriously. Trying for a bit of humor.I do plead guilty to going OT about... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Those of us who have lived in the US for the past 20 years cannot have entirely escaped the Seinfeld show on network TV. It was what we call a sitcom, but a very unconventional one that I enjoyed immensely. In the context of the show, Jerry Seinfe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I guess I am guilty of pushing the thread in an OT direction. I was just continuing to point out how widely we differ in our listening preferences, which has a lot to do with our judgements of audio equipment, including phono cartridges. Why Raul ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Truth be told, I have never allowed myself to think about the real top of the line subwoofer systems, because I don't want to pay the price. The JL subs do have a great reputation but do cost a fortune, AFAIK. I have considered the top of the line... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? That's OK, Dan. I take your point. Mine are Sound Lab M1s, but I love Quads, too. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Here is where more may be more: All rooms have nodes that especially bother the reproduction of extreme low frequencies. With two subwoofs, you can place them so that nodes or null points resulting from the output of one are cancelled by the secon... | |
| Does EAR324 phono stage sound like tubes ? I just wonder why it would sound "grainy" at all. Of course, that word may mean different things to each one of us, but it seems to me that transistor audio has evolved beyond the point where it should ever sound grainy. And I am a confirmed tube-... |