rauliruegas
Responses from rauliruegas
| Cartridge with broken coil wire Dear @tooblue : Degaussin a LOMC cartridge always is a risk because the coil wires are tinner than a human been hair.Degaussin can burn in the coil wire. Sometimes happens and sometimes not depending on the degaussin intensity. Seems to me that th... | |
| How do tell when my stylus is too much worn? Dear @don_c55 : Yes,but M97 came with different stylus shape and inside the shape different dimension. They came: conical, two different ellipthical and hiperellipthical too.Anyway, microridge or replicant or VDH2 goes deeper in the grooves and th... | |
| Cartridge with broken coil wire Dear @leicachamp: It's not convenient to re-solder if those ones are the coil wires that needs ( is a must to. ) to go direct solder it to the output pins with no additional junction in between.Any single additional junction in the coil wires mak... | |
| How do tell when my stylus is too much worn? Dear @don_c55 : " I have old records played many times on cheap old MM cartridges from the early 70’s that sound "mint" with expensive properly setup MC cartridges of today. "in those old times cartridge stylus tip was conical that let the deep ... | |
| How do tell when my stylus is too much worn? Dear @don_c55 / @czarivey / @boxer12: The issue is " deeper " than manufacturer specs or what we think and experienced about.Many years ago Ortofon published what they found out on the stylus tip wear. They make several tests and declared that the... | |
| How do tell when my stylus is too much worn? Dear @rrm: 800 hours? looks not excessive. Now, manufacturer can tell us that stylus tip can goes over 1K hours or even 2K hours.Now, the stylus tip degradation can be faster when LP's are not well cleaned and when the stylus tip is used not well ... | |
| Mounting a tonearm over a hole designed for Rega-style tonearm Dear @nrenter: Try to find out the Rega RB900 or 1000 or 600. These tonearms are very good performers and compete with those you name it.Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Dear @chakster / friends: Now that I remember exist one cartridge " designer " ( England. I think? ) that is using chromium as cantilever material. I understand he manufacture it.Chromium measures very good on stifness and hardness. He says that p... | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Dear @chakster : Your experience with JICO Technics is exactly the same that other gentlemans took with that 205.Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Dear @chakster : " BTW the point about compliance different between JICO vs. Original styli is good. "it’s not only the compliance parameter/characteristics but the whole cantilever/stylus assembly where everything is totally different with nothin... | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Dear @lewm / @chakster : " Now, everything the same cartridges with boron in cantilevers makes a better work in that critical cartridge characteristic. "yes, cantilever does not propagate sound but movement. Aluminum is very inexpensive against ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear @fourwnds : There are several MM/MI good alternatives going from B&O to Acutex, Astatic, Empire, Van den Hul, Sumiko, etc, etcRegards and enjioy tyhe MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,R. | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Dear @chakster : """ The best Fidelity-Research cartridges with Air Core also comes with alluminum cantilevers and those cartrs considered the best of the best. """certainly are not the best of the best, not for me. Are good cartridges and nothi... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear @jls001: First than all and before you try to make the fine tunning that great MF200 needs at least 30-40 hours for the carrtridge sette down and from here use 100k-100pf and start to play with tiny changes in SRA/VTF and when be near of what... | |
| Jico SAS vs Neo-SAS(S) vs Neo-SAS(R) Dear @jessica_severin: """ I was wondering about the Sapphire vs Ruby """there is no difference is the same kind of stone: corundum ( AL2O3 ). Works the same has/shares same characteristics.Regards and wenjoy the MUSIC NOT MUSIC,R. |