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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Funflyer. Thanks for your input. I agree with you that the thread has become a little too focused on minutiae, and perhaps I am a major culprit in that trend. Please know that I am totally aware of it. To some degree, I went ahead with my posts to... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks, Dave. Adjusting VTA to neutral gives an improvement in the sound of the Azden. The lower mids and mid-bass filled in quite nicely and edginess was ameliorated. Also the sound of a clapping audience became more "real". I don't quite have th... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? For goodness sakes! What Vinyladdict wrote and what Markd51 seconded and what Dertonearm and others suggested is exactly what I wrote way back at the top. How much more reassurance do you need? The ultimate would be to get Yip to confirm that he u... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? Dear vocalpoint, The answers to all the questions in your latest and recent previous posts are all to be found in my and Tvad's posts that went before. Please read them and think about it. The protractor does not give a rat's behind about your hea... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? Tvad, but if cantilever is straight and cartridge is parallel with the long axis of the headshell, then the cantilever is also parallel with the long axis of the headshell. "QED", as we used to have to say in geometry class. So, since your cartrid... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? By the way, I agree with Tvad's very first post: If the cantilever is indeed bent a bit then that accounts for the "problem" you note, which is not per se a problem in fact. | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? Dear vocalpoint, You might be interested to read the following post from Vinyl Asylum addressing just the question you are raising, whether you knew it or not:http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/90/901608.htmlThe post supports my recol... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? I presume that you had your protractor specifically built for your turntable/tonearm. With that as a given, you ask, "Question: Is this non-parallel result in the headshell normal? It's making me think I may have a bent cantilever or something." I... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave, To me "negative" VTA means that your tonearm pivot point is slightly lower with respect to the headshell. Do we agree on the jargon? Is this in your Trans-fi tonearm?Halcro, Yes, my wife now regularly pops into the living room around midnigh... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I guess there are two Lofgren alternatives (A and B), one of which is quite similar to Stevenson. So as Downunder says, that Lofgren would also "work" with vintage Japanese tonearms. (By "work", i mean you can align your cartridge with the grid on... | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Dgob, I am so slow at this business of evaluation that thus far I have only got a feel for 3 cartridges: my own Grado TLZ (so-called because I bought it at least 20 years ago, and it was my one and only cartridge for several years), the Ortofon M2... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul and Halcro, Some would say that the very excellence of these relatively inexpensive cartridges when inserted into your top quality tonearms on your top quality turntables proves the supremacy of the arm or the turntable in determining the qua... | |
| Glanz moving magnet cartridges Dear Dgob,Sadly for me, I had never before heard of Glanz cartridges until you brought them into the discussion, and I have never seen one for sale since then. I take it these products were largely sold and used in Europe.I am not sure I hear the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? But the point of my long-winded post was that in this particular case, where a tonearm designed for Stevenson geometry was set up with a protractor designed for Baerwald, I had to twist the cartridge in the headshell in order to make it line up wi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Yep. Nearly all the vintage Japanese tonearms and/or turntables with dedicated tonearms do use the Stevenson geometry. However, I am not sure that using the Baerwald or Lofgren geometries with these tonearms will bring on the problems I experience... |