mikelavigne
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| 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 | |
| Field coil dava cartridge spent the weekend (5 hours Friday, 12 on Saturday, and 8 hours today) with Kedar (Bonzo75 on WBF) doing compares between the DaVa on my Tosca tonearm and Saskia tt, and my 2 other tt’s, the CS Port LFT1 and the Etsuro Gold ’special’ cartridge, and... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? i think it's a mistake to use generalizations about materials to be the final arbiter of choice. it does take the pressure off actually investigating with an open mind and ears. i do respect it is simpler just to read specs and throw out pronounce... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? some develop their own mental listening reference for decisions, and their own decision process. some prefer to rely on other’s opinions and trust their references. for some the process of investigation is work, or maybe not something they have th... | |
| Where did you buy your first audio gear? when i was in my first year of college in 1969 i bought an AR turntable, Sherwood receiver and KLH speakers from Len Tweten of Magnolia HiFi when it was in a house in the Magnolia neighborhood (where it got it’s name) of Seattle. i did buy a used... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? @rauliruegas i changed my mind. had something to say, so i said it. and i deserve flack for being a putz. bring it on.😀 as far as digital ’smears peaks’ what i mean is that in a relative sense, digital rounds off the top of the transient compar... | |
| What is the “World’s Best Cartridge”? i listen to Dizzy Gillespie’s Big 4 lp pressing on the DaVa Reference cartridge. then listen to a digital transfer. with the Lp Dizzy’s trumpet hits 95 watt peaks on my dart 468 monoblocks. at the same SPL’s the digital hits 45 watt peaks. the Da... |