mikelavigne
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| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @atmasphere yada, yada, yada. your love affair with balanced circuits is legendary. are you wrong about them? no. are balanced circuits the ’main thing’ about how circuits might perform? no. balanced circuits = one advantage....but not the who... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? yes; the EMIA phono corrector + MC Trio is a package deal; which then can be compared directly with the two high gain internal phono’s inside the darTZeel preamp. the dart phono’s are very good; overall i prefer the EMIA approach. but then i migh... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? fundamentally using an SUT potentially brings a musical touch, inner artistic view and envelopment that high gain phono preamps such as the darTZeel can’t quite do in the same way. this effect varies with actual execution of the phono and SUT. my... | |
| Nearly all manufacturers do not advertise/exhibit their product measurements? Why? screw measurements. yet to really get get excited reading measurements. nothing wrong or right about measurements......they are data points with dubious value. OTOH listening to music does get me emotionally involved and it’s fun. and i have fai... | |
| Upgrade path question. Upgrade analog or turn to digital? i’m as all in with my vinyl as anyone, own 3 great turntables and 12,000 records, yet also all in on my digital and streaming, since that is where the new music is. my point being follow your musical tastes. if you love to explore musically then ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas the answer for the ’PC’ meaning Phono Corrector’ is the same as my other answer, but it involves a little more detail to describe my evolution. step one for me was my first ’exotic’ LFD din<->phono cable i used on my CS Port t... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas i’m not qualified to judge the tech of LFD cables (Dr. Richard Bews) other than what my ears tell me. for those curious about what Raul is referring to here is a thread with information about them. https://www.whatsbestforum.com/th... | |
| Trios “Chapel” Live - Lloyd, Frisell, Morgan my first pressing of the Lloyd; Chapel had a lead in groove severe warp, both sides. replacement arrives today. enjoying ’Ocean’ which arrived Sunday. it does have some ’peak’ moments like you mention. i’ll pay attention to see if i agree with yo... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? really the MC Century, Anna Diamond, and MC Diamond are really all equivalent. all three excellent cartridges. maybe nuanced differences at most. the MC Century was a limited volume, so they had to bring out the Anna D., then war, thus the MC Di... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? Ortofon Anna Diamond = Ortofon MC Diamond Anna Netrebko became persona non grata.... Russian Ukraine Politics required renaming......to side-step conflict. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas you either you respect listening opinions, or you do not respect listening opinions. you don't need to agree. tell us about your listening opinions. all the other is noise and nonsense.. | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas in my decades of activity i have yet to meet an audiophile, any audiophile, who does anything but listen to gear to make decisions. whether it’s gear, or pressings, or digital files or whatever....we listen. and to interact, we have... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? careful never to listen to a DaVa. you might then choke on those words, which could be fatal. don’t say i never warned you. btw; owned an Ortofon MC Diamond, along with a couple of MC Anna’s and A90’s. all fine cartridges not quite in the DaVa’s ... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? now an 8 month wait for a DaVa, wait getting longer all the time. and as it’s sold direct it’s a steal at the price. best approach is to order one, then when it comes in, easy to sell it to those on the wait list, if it does not float your boat...... | |
| Field coil dava cartridge DaVa Reference FR graph... https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/vinyl-upgrades-dava-fcl-tone-arm-emia-silver-phono-corrector-mc-trio.34405/page-5#post-826777 |