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Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Travbrow, Deed you try (USA) Customs? With your tracktracenr. they shoud be able to find your packet. That is whatLew deed with a packet that I posted to him some time ago.If I remeber well he waited for two months for this packetand was also not ... 
Has anybody tried the Reed 3P?
Dear Henry, There is this Aristotelian teaching reg. the distinction between 'essential' and 'accidental' qualities in objects. You are of course familiar with this obsessionwith rigidity by tonearms. I was aware that this teaching was totaly wron... 
Has anybody tried the Reed 3P?
Hi Maril 555, Coincidentaly I also own the SP 10, mkII and installed one of my FR-64S on the TT. I use this combo as my second system in order to test all those carts that I still buy on ebay. The removable headshell as Henry pointed out is the pr... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Trovbrow, Just had Axel on the phone. He is still one man company, the secretary Eva is invented by our German speaking New Sealander. For you the 'damn foreigner' he needs to drive 10 km to the custom office in order to get your discount of ... 
Has anybody tried the Reed 3P?
Hi Sonofjim, Glad to see you at last got your Reed 3P. Coincidentaly I just got the Benz LP S but my objective was to substitute the Ruby 3 S in my Triplanar VII with the LP S. My Reed 2 A got the Miyabi Standard already as 'upgrade' from Phase Te... 
Is Nagra BPS The Best Small Phono Pre?
This little 'Benz Phonostage' should actually be called 'Lukaschek Phonostage'. I had a visitor, a former technician by Benz with this 'little thing' and 5 Benz carts. This guy totaly neglected my Basis Exclusive (Gold version !) and persisted to ... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Raul, I hope the family bisiness will prosper so you can buy whatever you like. I must also confess to still search for , uh, 'interesting' carts. Btw the secretary Eva is probable still busy with Christmas shoping because I got Axel's wife o... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Raul, You anvy Lew for his two styli? I thought youown 'second to none' system and > 100 carts. If it was hiselectrostatics (the best the are and plural) or, probable, his slate plinths I would understand your envy better.Regards, 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Hi , I am Eva , Axel's secretary. I am sorry but I was busylately with Christmas shopping.( kindly translated by Nandric for all those who are not Germans or from New Zealand). 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Raul,I understand your passion although my is of a different kind . Something to do with the upbringing. The Balkan kind is more bloodthirtsty: revenge at any cost forthe rest homo economicus. Since the (considerable)price incrise by Axel his... 
Glanz moving magnet cartridges
Dear Dgob, I think that the Glanz 5 is the best MM cart that I own. To give some idea about the other: AT 180, Signet TK 9 CL, Virtuoso black with boron/super elliptical,Acutex 420, Stanton 881 S , AKG P8Es VdHul, etc.,etc.But since 4 days I am bu... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear comrade Don, With all those MM carts I was forced to 'invent' some 'exit strategy'. In my case this strategy consist of hypothetical assumptions regarding the resellpossibilities of each cart I buy. While I like Axel very much he gets from me... 
Glanz moving magnet cartridges
Dear Dgob, I was not refering to your interest in philosophy... but was wondering why you deed not post this contribution in the MM thread. Meanwhile you already corrected this. That is to say if you want to keep your Glanz thread, uh, 'exclusive'... 
Glanz moving magnet cartridges
Dear Dgob, Are you mad at MM thread? To my knowledge thestylus and the cantilever by Acutex 420 are pretty goodso I assume that one or the other was broken? Or deed youorder by Axel the 'exotic' beryllium or boron cantilever and Gyger 2 stylus? Ot... 
Re-tipped cartridges
The 'retip' in the past consisted in replacing the stylus only. The quality was dependant of the 'quality' of the master or his craftmanship. Since the manufacturers produce the cantilevers with styli already fitted the 'retip' become the substitu...