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Great cartridge mate for SME lV arm
Dear Jtimothya: The 90x like any cartridge could be re-tipped.I own both cartridges and my vote is for the XV-1. At least mate better to my music priorities.The 90x is a very good cartridge and a lot better than the 901 and not " bit forward ".The... 
ZYX Universe, Dynavector XV-1s, vdH Colibri, ??
Dear Mike: Now, that your XV-1 is fully broke-in ( I think but I'm not sure ) can you give us your experiences about.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Have EMM cdp and DCC2 - what turntable to buy
Dear Kjl: I know very well your cartridge ( I owned ) and I think that your tonearm is not the best match for it. The Discovery likes a medium-high mass tonearm with solid and very well made bearings, like SME or Ikeda tonearms. I think that you h... 
Has anyone ever used 40 grams effective mass arm?
Dear Nghiep: Yes, two of my tonearms are around that figure.No, I don't think it can deforms the cantilever, at least that does not happen with my cartridges., at the end the cantilever " see " the VTF and the anti-skating.Regards and enjoy the mu... 
Great cartridge mate for SME lV arm
Dear David: Good choice. You will be happy with what the 90X has to offer to your music.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Have EMM cdp and DCC2 - what turntable to buy
Dear Macallan25: +++++ " It would be my first TT " +++++How many LP's do you own?, here the software is really important too.Btw, I agree with Cincy about the cartridge and tonearm. For the TT: Acoustic Signature, Verdier, SME or Basis.+++++ " a t... 
"oldskool" tonearms
Dear Doug: There are many subjects about the high quality of those " vintage " tonearms, one of them is that almost all were manufactured more than 20 years ago and are in perfect operational/performance conditions: bullet proof!!!!Nice to see tha... 
9", 10" or 12" tonearm?
Dear Sdcampbell: I agree with you, but: +++++ " the longer arm may provide less tracing distortion, and therefore better sound, than the shorter arm. " +++++The theory told us that that statement is true. In three of my tonearms where you can inte... 
"oldskool" tonearms
Dear michael: Go a head for the MAX 237. Don't wait.Regards and enjoy the music.raul. 
"oldskool" tonearms
Dear Michael: I owned the ET and Dennesen linear traking tonearms and I had the opportunity " to play " with the Air Tangent.I really like this technology but I prefer the pivoted tonearm music presentation: solid and very well balanced, with the ... 
"oldskool" tonearms
Dear Anthony: Good luck on your Satin hunt. I owned the RS-A1 too, it had many interesting " things " ( like the headshell design ) but overall it is not a " great " one unipivot.Btw, why your love for unipivots?Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
"oldskool" tonearms
Dear Astock: You Alphason tonearm is a very respected one and a " vintage " one for sure.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
Motor & Bearing or Cartridge upgrade?
Dear Richard: I agree with you: cartridge. If you really like the Lyra sound stay with it: Titan i, but if you want something a little diferent you could try the Dynavector XV-1 a Transfiguration or an Allaerts.Regards and enjoy the music.Raul. 
"oldskool" tonearms
Dear Anthony: The Audiocraft AC 3300/4400 in fact is a dual point. It is a very good tonearm and better than the Graham 2.2 , this one take the Audiocraft design for its own design.As unipivot the Satin is at the top ( extremely hard to find ), wi... 
ZYX Universe, Dynavector XV-1s, vdH Colibri, ??
Dear Tangram: With out the rumble filter at 30Hz you have one stage less where the critical signal pass through and this help to " clean " the sound and our ears are very sensitive on cymbals reproduced frequencies and that's why you heard this im...