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| Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge? Dear DT. Thank you for the kind invitation to meet up with you in Munich. However, I have a tendency to forget that my government places stringent rules on international travel by its employees, of which I am one. Under those rules, I can only vac... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dave and I communicate frequently. He is liking the Pickering XSV3000 quite a bit. I did not see his review of the Acutex. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Raul, Do you have an opinion on the LP Tunes stylus assembly vs van den Hul rebuild? I guess you would favor vdH, because I know you do use them a lot, but if you know anything about the LP Tunes stylus, that would be of interest too.The Acutex, l... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? I was lucky enough (IMO) to win a Stanton 980LZS cartridge on eBay last night. The seller says the cantilever is "straight" and that the stylus looks to be in good shape, but I am prepared for the worst. Does anyone (Raul?) know anything about the... | |
| Can a broken leg from a tube be soldered and used? By the way, pin 4 is the single "plate" connection. Pin 5 connects to both grids, and pin 3 connects to both cathodes. Despite the presence of dual grids and cathodes, this is not a dual section tube, because it has only one plate. The other pins ... | |
| Can a broken leg from a tube be soldered and used? Dangerous to just take a chance that the missing leg is irrelevant. In fact, as far as I know, there is NO irrelevant pin on a 6C33C. Anyone who told you that is "blowing smoke". Here is the pin diagram URL. I believe pin 4 is the single large dia... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul,Here it is:http://www.vinylengine.com/twisting-your-cartridge-headshell.shtmlI think instead of using the term "tracing distortion" as Seb does, the better term is "tracing error", because we don't know that these angles translate into d... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? My insights, such as they are, into this question of tonearm geometry vs chosen alignment geometry, began with a thread on Vinyl Engine about twisting the cartridge in the headshell to align the cartridge body with a grid on any protractor. The pe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Tt and Raul, Thanks for taking me seriously. I realized that my experience in these matters is very shallow. I heretofore only had to worry about my Triplanar, and it works fine with the Turntable Basics protractor, which is now very declasse... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? Right now, I have no cartridges with "bent" cantilevers, I am happy to say, but it did occur to me that the forces that bend the cantilever in the first place (usually skating force in a pivoted tonearm) are either present or neutralized by anti-s... | |
| Cart not parallel after Mint LP alignment? Dear Raul, The other reason or the main reason VP's cartridge was not aligned to his headshell was because his MintLP protractor was designed for Stevenson geometry, whereas the tonearm on his Technics tt was designed for Technics geometry. So, ev... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Timeltel, I have to disagree with you slightly, I think it is first of all important to choose a geometry that is best suited to the design of your tonearm. The offset angle of the headshell is a major determinant of what geometry would work ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, A few posts ago I asked you to compare the AT20SS with the AT170 and AT180 cartridges that you most recently have been praising. Perhaps the question got lost in the shuffle, but if you would be so kind as to let me know your opinion (o... | |
| Can a broken leg from a tube be soldered and used? Newbee makes a good point. But you do have to feel confident you have a firm contact that won't short out during use. Also, as I recall the ceramic sockets for the 6C33C are fairly thick before you reach the metal contact points, which places a co... | |
| Can a broken leg from a tube be soldered and used? Dear Ihcho, It was several years ago that I bought the 6C33Cs from Victor. I bought two sets of six matched pairs each. At that time, I think Victor had the inside rail to obtain tubes that had been built in the Ulyanov factory in the early 90s. T... |