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| Azimuth observations and importance Dear Hiho, I am not sure what you mean. Any well designed tonearm should have no play in the bearings, regardless of the offset angle. Unipivots are uniquely likely to induce a variation in cartridge azimuth during play, because they can potential... | |
| Azimuth observations and importance Dear Teres, You make a good point, mostly because with most all the cartridges that I have ever bothered to align electrically, there IS no one "correct" setting. Usually I have ended up choosing a setting that gives seemingly the least possible c... | |
| Azimuth observations and importance I first realized the importance of proper azimuth adjustment when someone demonstrated it to me using his Triplanar tonearm. From that point forward, I lusted for a Triplanar. For a very good treatise on azimuth, how to adjust it, why you are adju... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I am using 28g 5N silver solid core, cotton-insulated wire, available from M Percy in the US for a couple of bucks per foot, and it is spectacular. I use it in my interconnects as well. IMO, it is a good move to get rid of the mechanical connector... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Headsnappin, Raul, et al,Last night I listened again to the Azden set up as per my original. It was evident to me half way thru the first side of the first LP that the objectionable qualities were still present. ("Grainy and harsh" are very a... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, As I wrote further up the page, I have bypassed two out of the four mechanical connectors that normally exist when one is using a P-mount adapter in a removable headshell. It is impossible to do away with the mechanical connection betwe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Downunder, I have the Ayre on its lowest gain setting, as you surmise. This gives 44db gain in single-ended mode, but I am using balanced in and out, which is why I bought the Ayre in the first place, to feed my all-balanced MP1 with a balanced ph... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I am not put off or insulted by your remarks on the Ayre. I have no dog in that fight, BUT I really don't think that the "problems" I am hearing, such as they are, reveal a qualitative shortcoming in the Ayre, except as noted the possib... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Mepearson, Grounding is a black art, to say the least, but I suggest that a separate wire from tonearm body to the ground plane in your preamp might very well eliminate at least some of the residual hum you talk about. The ground achieved via the ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I applaud the use of metaphor, but I am afraid you've got me this time. Can you explain your remark? Did you mean to say that the Ayre is not good enough for the Azden? I doubt that. But it may fall down in the respect that it cannot ha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? At some point perhaps I will get around to the Empire 1080LT, but at the rate I am able to evaluate these cartridges, that day may never come (as the Godfather said). In my sonic memory dating back probably 30 or more years, the Empire cartridges ... | |
| The merits of slate plinths or not Dear Vertigo, Due to your rigorous requirements, the only opinion you are going to come to respect is your own. So try it both ways. I owned a Lenco L75 in a giant Jean Nantais wood plinth. I used it for more than a year and then switched to anoth... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Gosh. Everyone wants to pick on the M20FL. What do you mean by "refined"? Yes, the FL is a bit on the Technicolor side, but that's not a bad thing entirely. If we move away from that, we also move toward MC-ville. Been there. Problem is we are sca... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Tim, That's exactly what I was trying to do, list the ones that are readily available new or NOS. I think you one can still find an NOS Andante P76, which would be the only one on my list that is indeed open to question as regards its availability... | |
| Ortofon MC A90 Cartridge VTF This reminds me of advice that was given me after I got my old Grado TLZ cartridge out of mothballs in connection with the MM/MI craze. Someone wrote that someone else on VE wrote that the one and only "correct" VTF for the TLZ was 1.62 gm. This m... |