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Halcro: S3 headshells?: mainly!!!!, no-azymuth adjustment and a pain to align the cantilever.R. 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Stanwal: I prefer the alternative I posted to the one you are using that I tryed several times.Maybe where I worked and work hard in my system is trying to improve the system bass frequency range management, for me is a critical audio system ... 
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Dear Halcro: +++++ " Do I ever want to just listen to the music?' " +++++of course every day, things are that that is our target: " just listen to music with the best quality performance I can achieve through each one audio system ".Regards and en... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Dgob: I never heard the PC-100CMK2 but one of my favorities is the 100CMK4.Well, differences with the Pioneer PC-400 is a gradation subject and I can't make a review right now but the main difference in between is on the dynamic performance l... 
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Nandric: That is a proccess, step by step till you be THERE, you will know when arrived!R. 
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Dear nandric: +++++ " What are we supposed to do with 'distortions' that weare not able to hear? Whatever componets we own the unknown one may have 'less distortion'. How are wesupposed to get the right unknown component of any kind? " ++++first b... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear Stanwal: IMHO in almost all audio subjects alternatives exist trade-offs, which one we choose is up to each one of us: nothing is perfect till today.As with passive electronics parts as: inductors, caps, resistors, transformers and the like t... 
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and of course that we/our self have the knowledge level to distinguish between mere distortions ( any kind ) and music, because sometime what we think is music in reality is only " nice " distortions.R. 
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or showedit in a wrong way!!!R. 
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Nandric: The other critical side about is that if our audio system has not the necessary resolution level then we can't hear we can't be aware of an accurate set up/alignment against a " so, so " set up because the audio system can't shows those d... 
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Dear nandric: +++++ " there is no way to avoid distortions with any pivoted tonearm " ++++there is no way to avoid it with any tonearm and if our target is to achieve lower distortions then the cartridge/tonearm/headshell/ set up/accuracy alignmen... 
Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC?
Dear friends: As I posted here it is ( just confirmed after evaluation. ) an unexpected/unknowed " new " winner vintage MM cartridge the: PIONEER PC-400.A humble and ugly cartridge body, it looks like another one of the pile with nothing to look t... 
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Dear Halcro: Now I can confirm why you like what you like ( I was not wrong about you. ) , why you like those kind of distortions.Yes we are way different about audio system music priorities. Your last post is your " testament ". Good for you.Rega... 
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Dear Dover: I can't agree more with you.+++++ " If we cant rely on cartridges costing US$2k-10k to have diamonds accurately placed in the cantilever then ..... " +++++Mediocrity is a " polite " word to say is a SHAME, there is no excuse for that a... 
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Dear Nandric: My take on that subject is based on facts not theory.Btw, almost all Japanese tonearms alignment by manufacturer advise were made it through Stevenson. I don't want to go inside again to that subject but IMHO Stevenson is the " wrong...