neonknight
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| Looking For A Dialogue Around Using An Ortofon MC2000 In My Current System Afraid it is not that easy, quite a bit of work has to be done before that can occur. Have no idea of the number of hours on the diamond, so it needs to be evaluated. I have a package slated to go to Expert Stylus with my Ikeda 9 for refurbishment... | |
| Looking For A Dialogue Around Using An Ortofon MC2000 In My Current System So I can a resonance calculator with the SME V as the tonearm and got 7.68 Hz. I got no idea how to run the Dynavector and get a calculation. | |
| Looking For A Dialogue Around Using An Ortofon MC2000 In My Current System @mrwigglewm Yes there was a brief mention of Intact and that you do use a DV505 with the MC2000. I started this thread to have a bit more in depth conversation than we had and get different perspectives to see what is possible. With the Supex ... | |
| How To Safely Ship Cartridges For Retip Which is why I prefer a domestic option if possible. Whenever I have my Ikeda done it will have to go to Expert Stylus, and that will require me to follow those rules and take more risk than I would like to. At the moment I have one of these new g... | |
| How To Safely Ship Cartridges For Retip So I shipped them off today. Decided to use FED EX Air Super Saver. Threw $2K insurance on it so hopefully they know there is some care needed. To go across country it cost me $64 with my discount for having an account. Hopefully in a bit Steve wi... | |
| How To Safely Ship Cartridges For Retip @chakster Yeah that sounds good and all. Until I remember my last order for a Dynavector headshell that came to a USPS facility about 30 miles from my home and never left it. Went to the post office three times to try to use the tracking number to... | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? This should be an interesting experiment. I was attempting to purchase the matching T3000 transformer from a seller on UKAudiomart, but he never responded. In the process of looking around I came across a Conrad Johnson HV1. This is an active head... | |
| Calling all Sota fans. @garkat62 I don't know if the analysis can be as simple as A>B>C or anything along those lines. When you get to upper tier tables and analog equipment in general my experience is they sound more similar than different as they succeed in rem... | |
| Calling all Sota fans. One thing worth mentioning is that many of the experiences posted above are based on the vintage tables originally produced in the 1980s and 90s, which are not representative of the current generation of tables. Over the years SOTA has undergone a... | |
| Calling all Sota fans. I use a SOTA Cosmos Eclipse and have a SME V on it, it's a very capable table. | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge @lewm Yes at this time the Ikeda is performing properly, and I get the good fortune of listening to it. However, I do not know its history, when it was built, how many hours were on it, and to be honest if it really is performing properly. The que... | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge @nandric So Expert will do a stylus repacement, but no other work? I was wondering if the suuspension or other damping materials in the cartridge can be adjusted or refurbished when the cartridge gets serviced. Mine happens to be playing well, but... | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? Yikes, I didn't think body materials would lead to such a lively discussion. Given the hardness of the body used on the MC3000 MK II, which the Stereophile review says almost 9 on the Moh Scale of Hardness, while that scale shows titanium being 6.... | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? @best-grooveAh thank you so much. Yes it certainly is informative reading, and provides a good deal of insight. It is my thought that Ortofon always seems to make level headed design choices that are aimed at the performance of the cartridge rathe... | |
| Classic Ortofon Cartridges: The MC2000 MK II or the MC3000 MK II? From what I read somewhere the MC3000 MK II uses the same body as the original MC300, so I went back to that review to gather some construction info. That info tracks what the owners manual says."The magnet material was changed to a more powerful ... |