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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Second thoughts. Dear Raul, In your method for altering the Pmount adapter, how do you maintain a rigid association between the cartridge and the headshell? It would seem to me that the cartridge tonearm wiring poking thru holes in the adapter wou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Great idea about "modifying" the adapter. Will do. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, In most cases that I am aware of, the adapter mounts to the headshell, and the Pmount cartridge is held in place by sticking it into the female receptacles on the adapter. Then the adapter is connected to the tonearm wires. So, how does... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? DT and Atma-sphere, The Triplanar bearings are needle-type bearings, are they not? Hence I don't know how they would be comparable to ball-type bearings and whether the same quality ratings apply. Of course, they are not from Schweinfurt so obviou... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I have no intention of buying any more cartridges for now. I stopped a while back. And in fact I think the Azden seller on eBay has only P20E's remaining. I did not see the P50E for sale. The 20 series seems down a notch in specs from the 50 serie... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, I am glad you are out there investigating these cartridges. You are doing the work for the rest of us, or at least you are leaving good ideas behind you. I, for one, do appreciate your efforts, but I cannot hope to keep up with you. Tha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Yes, Rich, up in the back or "positive VTA" as we say. Don;t be afraid to raise the pivot of your tonearm by quite a bit, but listen as you go up to find the sweet spot for your own ears. You are not at all "behind", or at least you are not more b... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? Livemusic, Good point about lateral mass. I have lately started using a Dynavector tonearm, which is deliberately designed to present a high mass in the horizontal plane. I can only say it is a great sounding tonearm with lovely bass response. How... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Has anyone tried the P20E version of the Azden? There are some still for sale. Raul? Remember that you and others were surprised at the performance of the elliptical version of the Ortofon M20, compared to the exotic FL stylus.Whither the poor old... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Rich, I did not mean to lead you down the garden path. For what it's worth, I did find the MKII stock mat to sound just fine, even though I did like the SAEC a bit better. The 2A mat and the Denon DP80 mat are both thicker and more rigid than the ... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III I have asked myself how the mat got warped in the first place, for a clue as to how to remove the warp. I assume it absorbed moisture, but I question my own hypothesis; why should rubber absorb moisture? Anyway, it's got to be totally flat to be u... | |
| Are linear tracking arms better than pivoted arms? I think the difference in the stress on a cantilever caused by a straight line arm vs a pivoted arm has to do with inertia, primarily. Lets assume there is zero friction. The cantilever is therefore bearing only the inertia (in the horizontal plan... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III Pryso, I had both a MkII and a Mk2A for a while. You are quite correct; there is a difference between the rubber mats supplied for those two tts. The MkII mat has those fine concentric rings, as you say, and may be more flexible, made of less rigi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, that Signet cartridge still has no takers. The seller states that he used it on his Rabco straightline tracker. For this reason, I would be worried about the cartridge; the Rabco depends upon the stylus/cantilever to drag itself across an LP... | |
| SP10 Mk II vs Mk III John, You wrote, "The MkIII had a SAEC SS-300 with a sorbathane "like" material on top of it. The MKII had the orignal rubber mat." Perhaps that had something to do with the across the board superiority of the Mk3. But with quasi-sorbothane on top... |