timeltel
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Headsnapin: Have little input for the Signet MR 5.0. Haven't found a body yet, do have styli for the Basic, 5.0e and 5.0me carts. From memory, the 5.0 has a fairly high output impedance, 3200 Ohm and coil inductance of 490 mh @ 1k Hz, val... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Raul: I have great affection for the old Pio. Weighs 79 lbs. & consumes 1400 watts AC, when pushed it'll heat a room. As there are no neg. feedback circuits, the phono section is quiet & clean, maybe a little too much so for some.... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Halcro: Four coils, hand wound from pole to pin. Like a recriprical steam engine, works on the push/pull, never stops to take a breath (c'est moi, c'est moi) ;-). Lew, A/B'ing between the Acutex & Sigmutt can't say either is better. T... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Lew(m): Thanks for the comments, you're being gracious again. A model of modesty, too. I'll see your bid and raise you one Voltaire. The French wit mentioned an individual who "demonstrates his ignorance" by having an answer for everythin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Lew(m), Halcro: A three dog night, inside and out. An Esquimo term, the colder, the more canines piled on the pallet. Inside the domicile, the three dogs were three styli tried in rotation with a Signet TK3ea and 5ea cartridge. Cartridge ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Lew(m): I recall from perhaps fourty years ago the narration by an audiophile who kept his "best stylus" carefully stored and used it only on special occasion. Your 320STR may be one of these exceptional styli. No experience with the Acut... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Lew(m): Please re-read, titanium has the lowest weight by mass as compared to either berillium or boron. It's rigidity exceeds that of alu. and it effectively damps resonances. I do hear, as you note, a discernable difference in the way t... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Halcro, Dlaloum: "so David is onto something here?". Great posts Dlaloum.An experienced "I fixed it until it broke" fumbler's firm impression of the subject:Absolutely, maybe, in an apple-oranges way. Isolated parts performance and integr... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Halcro: Did someone call my name? IIRC, beryllium, boron and titanium (in that order) offer the greatest strength-to-mass ratio of materials frequently used in cantilever construction. Boron, beryllium and then titanium for damping qualit... | |
| A Copernican View of the Turntable System Regards, Dover: You wrote: "There should be no cantilever suspension". Please reconsider, a Motionless Electromagnetic Generator (MEG) would violate the first law of thermodynamics. One able to overcome this small obstacle will recieve Princes as ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Raul, Halcro: Ran the TK9. The unmarked stylus I think all concluded was an ATN22. Initially mounted on an ADC LMG 6.5gm headshell, the performance was overly polite, absolutely uninspiring. Tepid. Boring. Travbrow suggested 1.3gm VTF, an... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Halcro: Wash the octopus, drain well... and use the water in the garden.The TK5ea is slightly more resolving than the 3ea, four coil, 6n's OFC copper winding instead of the production wound 3ea's 5n. Hand wound coils for the 5ea, individu... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Lew: That wasn't a long post, just a preview of the first chapter of my new book. (-; Acutex got it right with the LPM 320. Have you tried the 315 stylus yet? A source of a different color, don't be quick to judge. I remember Raul comment... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Halcro: Henry, you failed to mention VTF, headshells, leads, IC's, isolation devices, clever little clocks and teleportation tweaks. I understand some go so far as to render their TT's "nude" and then proceed to garnish it with arms enoug... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Regards, Inna. Thought I'd throw this one out, just so others don't think you killed the thread:It's downright comical, my mid-fifty's friend, doing the air guitar thing while listening to the most lifeless, screeching, undynamic and tuneless mid ... |