rauliruegas
Responses from rauliruegas
| Some cartridge recommendations Dear @westcoastaudiophile :No, I never listened and I never do in my system due that around 16-18 years ago we designed and builded an active high gain phonolinepreamp that was the Essential 3150 and today is the 3180. Even that I still own s... | |
| Some cartridge recommendations Dea @westcoastaudiophile : Obviously you don't know the very high quality transformers in the vintage AU-340 where this SUT beats with out doubt the ones you mentioned. Been a vintage SUT this Denon can even be up-graded with internal rewiri... | |
| Some cartridge recommendations @backwash : The Denon AU 340 beats almost all today SUTs under 3K-4K and you can find out for less than 1K and this is just an example what I'm talking about. Is up to you: https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/650049812-denon-au-340-step-up... | |
| Vinyl rips - still worth it? Dear @o_holter : Through the next months/years the streaming will goes better and better when analog just can't improve. The best recording library it belongs to the diferent streaming sources making the rip a no sense to me. MUSIC lover tar... | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. @mijostyn : " but I cannot say there is any advantage in a diamond cantilever over boron, ruby or cactus spine. " That was your very specific " dude ", you not even mentioned " everything the same " but in your next post following my answer you ... | |
| Cartridge Change Overhang Difference-Fixed Headshell Dear @wlutke : Accuracy at 100% is just that we can be " there ". So, this " battle " is losted before we arrived to it. The first hand experiences by almost all audiophiles is that always we are out of target and the issue is that your ears alo... | |
| Cartridge Change Overhang Difference-Fixed Headshell Well obviously exist higher tracking error and this means higher tracking distortions. If overhang change in any geometry kind alignment it needs to change too the P2S distance to mantain that alignment parameters. The calculated set up parameter... | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. @mijostyn : The last on those vintage diamond cantilever cartridges that used natural diamond was the Audio Technica MC 1000. After AT all diamond cantilevers are synthetic. R. | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Dear @lewm : It can looks that way but it's not builded of one pice, this is absolutely sure. Not even its vintage top of the line 13D. R. | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. @mijostyn : " I cannot say there is any advantage in a diamond cantilever over boron, ruby or cactus spine.. " There are one critical advantage of diamond for cantilevers and it’s about stifness ( Young Modulus ) where diamond hast the higher YM... | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Dear @tomic601 : No, chackster owns no single cartridge with cantilever diamond even he does not likes LOMC that are the only cartridges with diamond cantilevers. chackster here in Agon was a seller of vintage MM/MI cartridges, as a fact when he... | |
| Cartridge Change Overhang Difference-Fixed Headshell Dear @bigwave1 : You don't have to worry about because that very small distance what it can makes is that instead to have Löfgren A set up you will have Löfgren B that several audioiphiles prefer over A ( Baerwald ). Btw, very nice room/syst... | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Dear @mijostyn " I'm sure your Excel cartridge is excellent, but that is an anecdote. I have seen all sorts of defective styluses and mountings coming from very reputable companies. " First it's not an anecdote Excel quality whole levels as are ... | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. @mijostyn " " When a stylus leaves the groove and bounces back and forth it permanently damages the groove. " All cartridges with out mistracking " leaves the grooves " at microscopic levels because the tracking is not posible that be continuous... | |
| Thinking about switching cartridges. Dear @mijostyn : " I never said you can not replace just the stylus tip of some cartridges.. " ? ? ? ? ? from where came your statement, seems you have a misunderstood because that is not the subjects of my post to you. What’s going on ? ? ? ... |