nsgarch
Responses from nsgarch
| What effect does cartridge loading have on sound? AHAA!!"I was mistaken about it being labelled Souther. Souther is printed on the headshell above the cartridge."You had us all scratching our heads real good with that one!! Anyway, somebody help him out here -- I know I've seen that cart before, ... | |
| Transparent Phono Cable By all means try the IC-70, it comes with the arm anyway doesn't it? If it doesn't, then throw one into the mix if you like, but don't buy one until you've done your due diligence and made some comparisons.I thought the van den Hul Silver Hybrid c... | |
| Transparent Phono Cable I think your list is good (never heard of Silversmith) but with the (lo output) XV-1s cartridge, I think you owe it to yourself to audition the Silver Breeze www.silveraudio.com/Max will terminate one just for you if you have any special requireme... | |
| What effect does cartridge loading have on sound? Well, like I said, if it plays through your MM input at levels similar to your CD or Tuner at a given volume, chances are 99% it's not a MC but a MM.That said, there is a class of moving coil cartridges that the manufacturers (who make them) call ... | |
| What effect does cartridge loading have on sound? Major upgrade!! Well, at the moment you have a "mystery cartridge" but I'm sure you could research its particulars -- besides here and Google, try asking on Audio Asylum.I wonder if it's a Clearaudio Wood MM cart. It would have to be a MM cart or ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Speaking of "flowers on the windshield", I was out driving around with a stoner friend of mine the same night Loreena Bobbit decided to toss her husband's severed manhood onto the freeway.Well wouldn't ya know, it hit our windshield, whereupon my ... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Tim -- so are you saying we should keep our cartridges and spend the money on pot? | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Now about those piccolos: I just listened to the LennyB/NYP Tai-Chi 4th/3rd piccolito passage(s) with my W -- sounded excellent, and I found it enabled me to dial-in the AS even closer.I don't know what recording led to the comments above, but Len... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Bc3 -- everything I've read about the Tranfg. coil former material speaks of a 35dB increase in sensitivity:"Unique ultra grade SS-µ-metal core for coil assembly. Newly developed ultra grade SS-µ-metal square core increases sensitivity by 35dB, im... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Jonathan, I wouldn't presume to question your historical perspective ;--) Though I've been intrigued with the MC cartridge (design) since the early seventies, I just can't recall which cartridge you're referring to that had an actual ring (doughnu... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Speedy, I could go along with the O being a tweener marketing ploy if they were asking like DOUBLE the price of a V or W (remember the huge jump in price from an Airy 3 to a UNIverse?) but at a mere 20% more, no I think it's simply going to turn o... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Jcarr, you're quite right re: the wire diameter used to wind the coil -- after all, the number of windings is directly proportional to the current produced when a coil is moved through a magnetic field. I only was using the impedance spec as a rou... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Jcarr -- with all due respect, I think you have it all backwards ;--( Here's some technical background for your edification. BTW, the new core material only helps improve the signal to noise ratio, it doesn't increase the output:The moving coil ca... | |
| Tranfiguration Orpheus description Mark, your response indicates a slightly different understanding from mine.Once again, I have no reason to diss those other great cartridges;--) However, in terms of further design innovation or performance improvement, I see nowhere for them to g... | |
| tonearm to fit mysterious pre-cut plinth? It't must be for SME, does it also have two holes at each end of the oval? The M series is the least expensive model in production, I think.http://www.sme.ltd.uk/However the 309 and the 3009 are classics and available used here on Agon. |