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Dear chakster, I was only teasing you. On the Balkan we have veryexciting folk music. It is more popular than classical or jazz. But what do you mean with ''My age is also way different''?  I see that you admire many carts which I also admire. Tho... 
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Dear chakster, there was an thread about ''old school tonearms''or similar. There are of course also ''old school  gentlemen''.Your kind of music was (back) then not considered as ''decent''.Decent was only classical music with exception of nation... 
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My Gosh what an romantic picture. If this picture say somethingabout you than I understand your problem. But there is this prosaic saying : ''love make people blind''. 
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Dear chakster, comparing apples with pears is curious business.  
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Yes , special  for ''choose chakster'' . I am wondering why hebought Ikeda 9c, III without insurance that the precious canbe repaired in the West? But he may think that provided the cartis new or NOS it will function for the rest of his life. 
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Addition, I forget to mention the following. The stylus by Ikeda's9 series cantileverless kinds are fastened in different way to their''holder''. This means critical reg. stylus length. However ''Expertstylus'' also produces styli and can cut them... 
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bukanona,  the new stylus  for Ikeda's cantileverless 9 seriescost 278 GBP by ''Expert stylus''. If other repair possibilitiesare available is unknown. But, as I already mentioned, theowner of ''Expert stylus'' is good friend of the Decca ownerso,... 
Micro Seiki MA-505LS tone arm, anybody familiar?
EMT TSD-15 is actually 0.9 mV . They used other record tomeasure output and got different (low) output. Excellent cart for a modest price.  
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Dear chakster, ''not so convenient?'' You should chose some otherhobby . Say stamp collection (grin).  
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bukanona, the biggest worry of us both (my friend Don and  I )was if and where possible repair can be done. It is nice  to have two repair services. I will ask Don about the price of his repairfor comparison sake.  
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Dear chakster, We in Europe are very fond about those ''Encyclopedia's''. They cover 3 m in one's library and testify about ''high ranking'' of the person involved. ''High ranking'' in academic sense. Lucky us we don't need to spend so muchmoney o... 
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@bukanona, My friend Don Griffiths has one FR-7f for sell(dgriffiths et gmail dot com). What do you mean with ''different suspension''? All cantileverlesskinds have the same suspension. You may mean compliance? My Rex can be used with 1.5 g VTF th... 
Kiseki and Lyra Cartridge Dealers in Japan and Taiwan
Kiseki is invented by Dutchman Van den Dungen. Better knownas owner&designer of Prima Luna amps. Kiseki was meant asrevenge against (old) Sugano-san who wanted payment inadvance but then forget to deliver... Back then Van den Dungenwas Koetsu ... 
Need help finding a new phono stage.
ASR Basis Exclusive with battery power supply introduced newmodels nearly each year. The consequence is that the ''oldermodels'' can be get for cheap. For those who live in Europe Ican recommend ''audio-markt.de'' site as ''place'' for search.  
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Dear dover, ''the holly grail'' is metaphorical name for therelation of comparison. The schematics is : a is beter than b,b is better than c, etc.: R (a,b,c...n). Your statement was that(your) Nova 13 D sounds better than my REX and your ownKiwame...