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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Royj, I use a Turntable Basics protractor, which uses 2-point alignment. And as you suggest, with my Dynavector (Japanese-made) tonearm, the cartridges end up twisted in the headshell a bit to the inside. This is because the Dynavector is designed... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Royj, I don't doubt your word for a second, and you are not the first to claim the superiority of an arc protractor over a 2-point one, but I cannot for the life of me understand why this should be. After all, if the cartridge is rigidly inst... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Headshell science: Upon close examination of the Belldream, Denon PCL5, and a Yamaha headshell that was given to me by a friend, I see that there are even more mechanical contacts than I had imagined. So for Pmount cartridges that need an adapter,... | |
| thoughts on the Madrigal Carnegie One Just to confuse you, the Blue Point is the most disappointing of any cartridge I ever owned, in terms of its actual performance vs its reputation at the time I bought it, which was that it was a "giant killer". OTOH, the Madrigal still has an avid... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? What is the effective mass of the Thales? Seems as if it would be very high. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, This is a bit off-topic but what I don't like about the DA307 design is that it has a decoupling joint in the arm wand between the cartridge and the pivot point. This presents two theoretical problems: (1) vibrational energy from the cartrid... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Thanks Dgob and Raul,, I happen to own a Denon DA307 tonearm that came with my DP80 as a complete "record player". I don't use the DA307 (don't like it as a tonearm), but I think it has the PCL5 headshell. I guess I can put that into service on my... | |
| Does my phono stage have sufficient gain? It sounds like you might get by with using the 24:1 tap, which would give the ZYX a more favorable (i.e., higher) input impedance. Failing that you can replace the load resistance on the SUT secondary (the 47K resistor in parallel with phono input... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul, Lately I have been giving a lot of thought to headshells. I know you like the Belldream, and I bought one from 2juki. But the Belldream weighs about the same as the stock Dynavector headshell that comes with my tonearm (~11 gm). I am thin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? There probably ought to be a "Who needs mono cartridges when we have stereo" thread. Raul, would you care to start it? I don't know whether you ever saw the movie "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", which takes place in Mexico, but your thread could b... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Oy. So I have to buy TWO mono cartridges? One for pre-58 and one for post-57 mono LPs? Actually, I think the great majority of my mono LPs are pre-58 vintage. Thanks for posting this useful information. I did some web-based research after posting ... | |
| Best Power Cord for Phono Stage Phono stages usually do not demand much current (tubes need more than transistors however), and you probably want a shielded cable to keep out RFI, as far as is possible. So with those two criteria in mind, you should be able to narrow down the po... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Rich, When selecting a mono cartridge, it is important to consider what type of mono recordings you want to play. The optimum choice of stylus shape and diameter is different for different periods of the history of recording. You will have to do s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul et al, Over the last month or so, I have been "dialing in" the van den Hul Colibri while comparing it to the Orto M20FL and the Grado TLZ. The Colibri is in my Triplanar tonearm on a Denon DP80 with SAEC mat (thank you, Raul), while the MM/MI... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? OK, if the cartridge is affixed to the adapter by some other way besides via the pins, then your way IS superior, I would agree, because the cartridge clips are generally superior to the pins in any adapter I have seen, as you say. I haven't yet t... |