neonknight
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| Reasonable moving coil cartridge For about $350 you can get an Audio Technica OC9 II cartridge, and its a mighty fine sounding LOMC for that kind of money. Boron cantilever and microridge stylus, its hard to believe you can get one for this kind of money. Heck retippers would cha... | |
| Bare cartridge design, Sumiko Blackbird Low Output I have owned a couple of the Blackbirds, but they were the HO version. Very nice sounding cartridge, reminded me a lot of my ZYX, similar kind of voicing. As I remember the wires are pretty well protected by a channel guard. There are not flying ... | |
| Casual Listening Attempt #2 Brinkmann Audio So this afternoon I moved the table off the Graham Slee Accension and Elevator phono stage. Moved that combo over to a Well Tempered Reference with Ikeda 9 Kawami cartridge, which I know works very well together. I then installed the Brinkmann/Aud... | |
| Casual Listening Attempt #2 Brinkmann Audio Just roughed in the set up this afternoon. Installed the ZYX first but its a bit spirited on this table. Put the Ortofon A90 on it and its a very nice sound. Excellent combination of refinement, smoothness, and detail. This ia not a table/arm comb... | |
| Casual Listening Attempt #2 Brinkmann Audio I have the micrometer option. Its great for small vta changes. | |
| Casual Listening Attempt #2 Brinkmann Audio Was a share. I am curious to see how this works out as its design is a bit different than my SP10 MK II or DP75. Would be nice to find a source for alternate arm boards, especially those made from different materials. Have struck out finding any t... | |
| In praise of the mighty SOTA Sapphire They certainly are nice tables. I bought a Star Sapphire MK III as a proof of concept table. I hated the oak finish, but loved the table. I ended up buying a Cosmos Eclipse in bloodwood, and have a Nova Eclipse on order for my casual table. Belts ... | |
| Linear Tracker ...I was wondering Surprised there is no mention of Advanced Analog MG1. An affordable linear tracking option. Their site is under construction. But there is info there.adanalog.com | |
| Guest suddenly takes it upon herself to move my speakers My JBL 4365 weigh 195 pounds each. You gotta do some work to move them. | |
| Best Tonearm for Thorens TD-124. When I had my TD 124 I used an Eminent Technology II on it and that was a fine combo. I also had an Audiomods Classic II as another choice and that was a fine arm. I bet the SME M2-9 would be a great choice also. | |
| Cartridge suggestions I am not a huge moving magnet fan, but I did get to spend quite a bit of time with the LP Gear Vessel R3SM. It uses a ruby cantilever and Shibata stylus. A bit spendy for a MM cartridge but it sounds glorious! Nicely detailed, refined, even tonal ... | |
| Tonearm ...... Acos Lustre GST-801 ..... Yea/Nay I have a parts Gst 801. Have the heavier counterweight, a factory head shell, a cloned weight ring made od stainless steel. The wand and cue device are like new. Missing the on the fly base, but have a macined Rega style, and the magnetic vtf piec... | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge @vortex I have only seen one reference to this cartridge and it was at Audiocircle. 5th image down refers to it as a 9 Rex Kiwami. This appears to be the same cartridge as I have. Any thoughts? https://audiocirc.com/2016/06/12/moving-iron/ | |
| Assistance Identifying an Ikeda Cartridge @vortex I have never figured out how to post images here. This is a link to AA with the image of the cartridge. https://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=vinyl&m=1190847 | |
| Tonearm ...... Acos Lustre GST-801 ..... Yea/Nay I have owned that arm, the 801 is a nice arm if functioning properly. The price is about market, but its not complete. There should be a auxiliary ring counterweight that goes around the regular one, needed if you run heavier cartridges. Also the ... |