sampsa55
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| Fidelity Research FR-64x @nandric (Slightly off topic)One should use the weight which can be moved nearest to the pivot. The least inertia is the result.Is this actually true? As long as what you're balancing doesn't change (i.e., the cartridge & headshell stay the sa... | |
| Audio Craft AC-4400 and related AC tonearms You could also use a heavier headshell for the other cartridges. I don't know what the part number for the lighter one is. My FR64fx came with it and I bought the heavier W250 separately. | |
| Audio Craft AC-4400 and related AC tonearms I have the W250 for FR64fx, which I think was needed for SPUs as the default weight was too light. The default weight for FR64s is very heavy, but I have a lighter one for it. | |
| Audio Craft AC-4400 and related AC tonearms The fx-models are later than the s-models, I think. The difference isn’t just the weight, but also the material. Steel & aluminium resonate differently and the surface treatment might make a difference too. The FR-7 cartridges are so heavy in ... | |
| Audio Craft AC-4400 and related AC tonearms @chakster I think you read too much into the color match. The headshells that came with FR66s & FR64s were also black. | |
| Audio Craft AC-4400 and related AC tonearms The AC3300 & AC4400 were in production for quite a long time. Here's a review of Platine Verdier from 2001 and it came with an AC4400, which looks to have been one of the recommend tonearms to go with the Verdier:http://hifishack.com/jcv_plati... | |
| Audio Craft AC-4400 and related AC tonearms Some notes, possibly obvious:- AC3300 & AC4400 are later, more advanced models that command much higher prices (~3-5x) on the used market. I think they were manufactured until the early 2000s. - AC3000 & AC4000 are unipivots and AC3300 &am... | |
| Vintage DD turntables. Are we living dangerously? The only differences between the GT2000 and GT2000X are that the latter had brown veneering, bigger plinth, bigger motor shaft, and better tonearm (sold as an option on GT2000 as YSA-2). The bigger plinth & bigger shaft cannot be installed lat... | |
| Isolation Feet for Garrard 301 wood plinth One option:http://www.amcanaudio.com/?product_cat=footers I've also used Audio Technica AT616 & AT636 with success, depending on the weight of the turntable. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Most were made to run on 100V, as per the Eastern half of Japan.All of Japan, actually. The East vs. West is 50Hz vs. 60Hz, respectively. | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Wouldn’t the amplitude (movement) of the cantilever be the same for both families of cartridge?Not necessarily. In both cases, the stylus follows the groove, but there could be differences in the extent to which groove modulations move the cantile... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Obviously the words "guessing" and "implies" means it's conjecture, but it's a possibility, a likely one. "Implies" is a logical conclusion, not a conjecture...Find a master tape dub of the recordings in question and you'll find out.Why would he o... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond So far, there is no perfect cart and I doubt if this is. I'm guessing the trade off is harmonic detail, texture and layering. Being able to unravel the Stephen Stills or Respighi implies omission,Are you really saying that being able to enjoy a pr... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond From Lewm:Besides damping spurious resonances one can also sink the energy that affects the magnitude of the resonance. This is what I think might be happening with the FR64S/66S. It may be that the tonearm is efficient at draining resonant ener... | |
| The Palladian-A step beyond Halcro: Thanks for bringing this up. Sounds very promising, though pricey.Is it the quest for seemingly greater detail retrieval demanded by aging audiophile ears and the ‘rational’ that higher pricing is synonymous with ‘revealing’ (I hate that w... |