rauliruegas
Responses from rauliruegas
| Best MM? Dear @dgarretson : IMHO the Etna needs a better tonearm and preferable no-knife bearing and certainly not an all metal headshell that's not a good " friend " for any cartridge. You own the Kuzma that's very well damped tonearm. In the other side ... | |
| Best MM? Dear @orpheus10 : Well, in life all is relative and from that point of view what for you is " heaven " for other gentleman can be BS.I think that everything depends on the overall context/scenario where " things " happens, how are surrounded and t... | |
| Best MM? Dear friends: I always talk only with cartridges that I listened/lisent in my own system and some of them in other system too and all my cartridges mounted in different tonearms.I bougth over 150+ vintage cartridges ( with some of them 2-3 samples... | |
| Colibri or Hummingbird? Dear @jtimothya : The best adapter is NO adapter, always makes a high signal degradations.R. | |
| Best MM? Dear @dhcod : If you are really specific on those 3 cartridge mentioned then you can't go wrong with either.Something else? the Ortofon 2M Black, Audio Note Iq3, Reson Reca and many more.R. | |
| Phono cable and preamp for soundsmith Carmen mk2 Dear @invictus005: The 2m Black is a MM not MI, the Nagaoka is an IM one ( a copy cat of the ADC ) and the usual Stanton’s were MM and only a few of its models were MI. In the past Ortofon had MI too:https://www.ortofon.com/ortofon-2m-black-p-329-... | |
| Best MM? Dear @dhcod : Please read carefully this thread:https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/adc-26-best-pritchard-cartridge-ever-or-best-cartridge-everRegards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? There is no more boron pipe for cantilevers. Useless to continue with you.R. | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? Dear @invictus005: No are not:https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/young-modulus-d_417.htmlhttps://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/young-modulus-d_773.htmlin this page you brose at the end and make click in tensile/strength.....http://biotsavart.tripod.c... | |
| 'Diamond' cantilevers: a man's best friend? Dear @edgewear: " have reinforced my opinion that not much real 'progress' has been made in the sonic capabilities of MC cartridges,..."Well, till today the transducer/cartridge foundations are still the same and nothing can change about due to ... | |
| ADC 26 BEST PRITCHARD CARTRIDGE EVER? or BEST CARTRIDGE EVER? Dear friends: After talked with the designer of my ADS I decided to take his several advises and to make those up-dates I unfortunatelly need money and even help about.Contrary to my desire I will put on sale one of my beloved ADC 26 with the guar... | |
| The Devil is in the Cartridge Setup (and a good phone pre)... Dear @jbhiller : """ the op amp "upgrade" made less difference... " and perhaps not a true difference for the better. From some years now BB is prt of TI whom bougth it.nyway, good that you come back to the vinyl fun.R. | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Dear @downunder : """ Here we have a report on Tang’s wonderful system ... ""Wonderful for who? maybe to you. What I see and read there is a very whealthy gentleman with very log MUSIC/sound knowledge levels that’s the worst combination: to many m... | |
| SAT 30K+$$ TONEARM: W O R T H T O H A V E I T ? Dear @lewm : You know that I know you very well and the same respect that you have for me is exactly the one I have to you.We can disagree and as a fact we did it several times but always there are no insults in between. Things are that sometimes ... | |
| Audio Technica AT ML-180 Cartridge Advice I never answer /ignorantstupids that never learn. An unfortunatelly the world is full of them.R. |