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| Vintage DD - Any modern cartridge recommendations? Modern vs vintage has nothing to do with it. If the tonearm and cartridge are well mated, the turntable needs to do its own job, vintage or otherwise. So if the JVC is in good working order, you should have no problem regardless of cartridge. IOW,... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, do you guys celebrate Halloween? Tonight is Halloween Night here in the US, and the TV stations are running all horror movies all the time, so I could not help but think of the "Saw" analogy. Actually, I have never had the guts to watch mo... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea I meant, dear Nandric, that the Talea and the Schroeder are just tonearms. | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Thanks for defining synchronic and diachronic. I am a better person for it. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I can see it now, a series of horror movies - "Halcro". There would be sequels, a la "Saw". In Halcro V, he finally stomps an Ortofon MC A90, after torturing several different Technics throughout the early parts of the movie. The cartridges are so... | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Hi Soren, Do you like your L07D? Since this thread started, I bought one and am using it regularly after having the electronics refurbished and upgraded. I absolutely love it. The tonearm has a lot wrong with it in theory, but sounds wonderful in ... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea None of this stuff, no matter how expensive, will ever get me back to that night when I was 17 years old, sitting in a tiny nightclub in New Haven (Connecticut), listening to John Coltrane play and watching him at work, as he was standing about 6 ... | |
| Whest MC REF V - my new christmas present The % mark-up by the importer is not unusual. Japanese-made phono gear is often subjected to the same treatment. Some Japanese cartridges can be bought in Tokyo for less than half their cost here in the US, with no special effort required. It rema... | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea Ummm... Syntax, I fear you have misunderstood my post, which you saw fit to quote. To say that the named tonearm designers "attempt(ed) to advance the state of the art" is not to say that in my opinion they have actually done so. I am not in a pos... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Good one, Travis. | |
| Schroder sq and the new talea DT, Herb Papier, inventor of the Triplanar, lived in Wheaton, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. Hence the origin of the original full name of the tonearm. Triplanar moved to Minnesota after Herb died, so the "Wheaton" moniker is no longer appr... | |
| Whest MC REF V - my new christmas present The Whest website is singularly uninformative as to what goes into their products, except to intimate that they use bipolar transistors, "high voltage", "high current", and lots of voltage regulators (20 in the case of the Ref V). Also, they use C... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Halcro, That's an Aussie solution to hum that I never had thought of. It did occur to me to apply the same treatment to my recalcitrant amplifier, but it's too large to be crushed into dust. I never had any hum problem with the Azden, but I just c... | |
| Whest MC REF V - my new christmas present Is there any good information available on how the various Whest phono stages differ from one another? It would interest me to know what is inside a $20K phono stage that justifies such pricing. I do think it's fair also to charge for brilliance i... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks for your candor, Weseixas. Timeltel, Yes, the distortion I was hearing back then almost certainly had to do with the incipient problem in my amplifier. It is the R channel amplifier that is now on my operating table since the early summer. ... |