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| Tracking issue with dynavector 20XL Dear Flyfisher: 2.2 grs is the manufacturer limit to warranty that the coils were centered and that the cartridge suspension will work on target.Don't worried about how it test on that test LP, the important subject is that you don't have that pro... | |
| Importance of arm length? Dear Ben: That difference in the effective tonearm lenght makes a difference too in the quality sound reproduction of the cartridge and in its overhang set-up.The effective tonearm lenght is directly related with the overhang.In other words you ne... | |
| better tonearm for SME 20/2 Dear Aubullience: I agree with Peter advice. The Sumiko Celebration is a great performer on its own but happen that during its voicing was mounted on a SME V tonearm this fact means that this tonearm is the best match for the Celebration and it ca... | |
| Review: Empire EDR.9 Moving Magnet Cartridge Dear Eldartford: The phono stages in the Essential 3150 ( MC/MM ) are similar about the inverse RIAA eq. but different in some other subjects, for example: the MC stage works with bipolar transistors and the MM one with Fets. We found that the Fet... | |
| Review: Empire EDR.9 Moving Magnet Cartridge Dear groovey: +++++ " I have been told this Empire EDR.9 outperforms many MC Cartridges costing many times the price paid. " +++++And is totally true. The EDR.9 ( that I own ) like other high end MM cartridges compete ( bis a bis ) with any MC car... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear Piedpiper: " cartridge floating ": pin 1 disconnected.Regards and enjoy the music.raul. | |
| better tonearm for SME 20/2 Dear mooner: That's right.Regards and enjoy the music.raul. | |
| better tonearm for SME 20/2 Dear Aubullience: Very good TT. In my humble opinion the choice of tonearm depends more of which cartridge you finally own.If you decide for the Lyra the SME V is a better way to go and if you decide for the SME V ( I prefer the IV ) then try to s... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear Gregadd: " As well meaning as Raul is he chose to visit those whose opinion is most trusted here on audiogon. I don't blame him. "The fact was that I choose to make a personal delivery with the Matt Essential who lives in Austin, TX, then I a... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: " Brass sounded brassier with the CAT than through the Essential ".From my point of view I would like to address this misunderstanding:other than many critical design differences between the CAT and the Essential 3150 there are at le... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: One other aspect that could help to understand the Essential quality performance is that is designed through bipolar transistor technology and that is build through only two gain stages.I don't know any other active high gain Phonopr... | |
| The final Act in a study in preamps the ART 3 Dear Brent: I never had the opportunity to heard the CJ one but I already heard the Omega, Callisto, Hovland, Spectral and Vac, all of them very good units.I own a self design Phonolinepreamp named Essential 3150 that maybe could challenge the CJ ... | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear Albert: Yes, I forgot: sorry.Btw, I don't know which balance configuration is using Purist: we recomended the cartridge floating one that is what Desmond and Mattew are using.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. | |
| Experience with Raul's Essential 3150 Dear friends: There is something that you all have to know: during each Essential presentation on those audio system the signal from the cartridge was passed to the Essential through unbalanced ( RCA ) way, no one of those audio systems had a bala... | |
| RE: set up tips for Cello Reference mc cartridge Dear Daren: Jonathan is right, that non-cantilever Cello cartridge was build by Ikeda.I own the Ikeda REX9 and if in any form the Cello one has the same sound signature than mine then you will be really happy with it.The Ikeda cartridges are reall... |