lewm
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Robert (Gaugin). I had another thought which almost got me up at 1:30 AM to post this, but I waited til morning. You don't specify which Lyra cartridge you own, but if it is an MC cartridge, your phono stage may be set up with a low load resistanc... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Also, Robert, you remark that your other cartridge sounds fine in the same tonearm and with the same phono stage. Is this correct? If so, check to see whether somehow the stylus assembly in the Ortofon was jarred loose in shipping. If that's not t... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dear Dertonearm, Sorry to see you go. We could discuss it privately. I allowed all along that my reasoning could be faulty, but I have yet to hear the science-based counter-argument from you for your thesis that higher mass of the slate would resu... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Siniy123 and Axel, You guys have opened another whole can of worms - the effect of cantilever construction on sonics. Downunder (or Phaser?) and several others here and elsewhere seem quite taken with the new Ortofon MC A90. Even Raul mentioned th... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Thuchan, you are so right. In the end all of us, except for Dertonearm who was in the business of turntable R&D, have opinions based on very narrow experience. That's possibly why it is of interest to consider the physical principles involved ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Siniy123, What is the "signature" of the alloy cantilever? Can you put it into words for me? I don't even know what metal or metals are used in the cantilver; a search for the information on Google turns up nothing. Apparently Ortofon stopped maki... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dertonearm, I am thoroughly enjoying this discussion, and I do thank you for your patience with my recalcitrance. I feel like this is a Socratic search for truth, not an argument. So.... you wrote, "The larger the difference in mass between two si... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dertonearm, The billiard experiment you cite is an interesting analogy. It seems to me that when the billiard ball encounters the billiard table, it is first of all sitting on the felt cover. The outcome of the experiment would seem to depend on h... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Axel and Downunder, I have been doing an analogous comparison to Axel's, listening to the Ortofon MC7500 and the Ortofon M20FL Super. The MC7500 was in effect replaced by the Per Windfield but is different in construction. The comparison is confou... | |
| Anyone own a Pioneer Exclusive P3 ?? When the Mk3 is finally ready for audition, I will replace the Mk2 with the Mk3 on the same shelf with the same tonearm/cartridge. Then we will see. Those who have owned both tell me the difference in sound is not "amazing". Over on another thread... | |
| Anyone own a Pioneer Exclusive P3 ?? Downunder, What you say seems to be true. In ca 1980 the standard for measuring S/N ratio changed, to give everyone bigger numbers to brag on. I think then Exclusive re-defined the P3 to P3a with maybe some minor changes, if any changes at all. No... | |
| Anyone own a Pioneer Exclusive P3 ?? Congrats, Downunder. I thought you had settled on, or settled for, a P10. I've now got a Kenwood L07D and an SP10 Mk3, neither of which are yet in service. But can a P3 be far behind? | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? Dertonearm,In the spirit of this discourse, you wrote "all great turntables able to provide those lowest 2 registers (and by doing so donating to the listener all the upper registers with increased ease and transparency as well...) will feature a ... | |
| Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what? We all agree. We just may or may not agree on what is a cow and what is a racehorse.Syntax, I am blown away by the description of your speakers. They must be remarkable. | |
| XLR waste of time ? Dear Gallant_Diva, You wrote, "XLR circuit has two to three times the complexity of RCA, not to take away the transparency and purity of the signal."That is the old argument for those who believe that single-ended circuits are per se superior to b... |