mijostyn
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| Moving Iron Adventures @dogberry , Mylar will shrink when heated with a heat gun. After final assembly Acoustat panels were run under an infrared heater to tighten the Mylar. If the speakers were not crossed to a subwoofer, with age the diaphragms would loosen a bit, an... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @mulveling , that is why you hold the cost of the cartridge in escrow. Yes, in some instances one might actually prefer the less expensive cartridge. A cartridge screwed down tight inside it's box is virtually impossible to damage without obviou... | |
| Blue Note Tone Poet Series I just finished recording the Classic Records 45rpm Led Zeppelin set in 24/192 ALAC with an 18 Hz 48dB/oct digital rumble filter. On my system using 8 foot 645 Sound Labs electrostatic loudspeakers nobody can tell the difference between the actual... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @ghdprentice , If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. I would never let anyone else touch my turntable. The question would be what percentage of turntable owners who might be interested in a site like this are comfortable handling cart... | |
| Recording Degradation on Recording to reel to reel I grew up with my dad's Ampex tape machine and hundreds of prerecorded tapes, jazz and classical. The tapes were all 7.5 ips. Back then turntables, tonearms and cartridges were not near the quality they are today and in spite of considerable tape ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @daveyf , I have discovered , having purchased 3 top cartridges recently, that online stores will give distant buyers a 10% discount by adding a trade in if they are comfortable with you. You still have to buy the cartridge. What would be fun wo... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas , My thinking on the price is that with MSL cartridges there is one less middleman. Humans being the way they are would typically make their own product better than one made for another company. But regardless of motivation they are b... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @dover , That was my feeling exactly which is why I opted for the Platinum Signature. It is in the bass where the physics of analog playback become really difficult. No such difficulty occurs with digital playback. Digital bass reproduction is u... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas , The Luxman was a good cartridge. Since then Yoshio Matsudaira developed a new core for the armature that gives him higher output ( 0.5 mV) with one layer of wire keeping the impedance very low and the moving mass very low. He starte... | |
| Sublima Chakra tt mat @fsonicsmith , The Funk Firm Achromat is as good as a mat gets without resorting to marketing BS which in the case of Sublima is of the highest order in comical proportion. @deadhead1000 , as a Phil Zone addict I encourage you to try the Achromat... | |
| Sublima Chakra tt mat @tablejockey 1++ Thank you for not making me be the jerk this tine:-) | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? The more I listen to the MSL Platinum Signature the more I am impressed by it and the Seta L it is attached to. This is the quietest cartridge I have ever owned. Records that I thought were on the noisy side are now reasonably quiet. Quiet records... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @noromance 😁😁😁 @mikelavigne , Listening to music together and sharing the experience is a totally different proposition then trying to describe what something sounds like at a 2000 mile distance. In listening together you now have the framework t... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @frogman , The problem with your statement is that there are millions of music lovers who "honor" the music by listening to it on systems that many of us would find mediocre. Music is no less valuable to them than it is to any of us. We chose to e... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @noromance , Please and really, I do not mean this as a reflection of you but I have seen people tolerate a lot worse! Any cartridge will track at 10 grams. Don't you remember the days when we put a penny on top of the head shell? @rauliruegas , ... |