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[quote user="Paul S"]Frank himself will often cut in at this point to head off most of the speculative nonsense. Not to co- opt him here, but I find it interesting that most of the Schroder arms (sorry, no umlaut...) are particularly subject to ...
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As far as I know the Schroder arms do not generate electricity like that. But they do use magnets for one end of their suspension and they are said to generate what Herr Schroder refers to as (quasi-electro-mechanical?) magnetic "eddy currents", whi...
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Folks, This thread caught my attention, because here Romy waxes lyrically about the failings of the Denon Cartridges. Now I only consider ONE Denon worth bothering, the ORIGINAL 103, it is often inaccuratly called 103C. It has a medium compliance (ar...
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I'm wondering what is left for those on a cartridge unfortunate market...An agressive needle, a contrast to a somehwat "romantic" TSD15 spherial......
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It's a pisser, all right, but a high-demands, OCD hi-fi nut might "realistically" spend years trying to get the most from a "serious" TT/arm/cartridge rig. IMO, most people are probably better off with something "easy to use", if that is not an ...
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Dear Romy. Is it possible to shorten 2000hours running time by using high output MM cartridge?Best regardsarmen...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
For instance the 2A3 has no tungsten cathodes and therefore its cathode might be “poisoned” in time if it was not properly pre-burned and some other methods were not taken care. Those methods are expensive but they ...
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Romy, thanks for another nudge toward Bruckner. I was not at all aware of Schuricht before your post, and I do like what I heard of his 8th and 9th via headphones, off the computer, although I realize this is a just thumbnail version. You have said s...
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I got home. I turned the thing on, I played it and it was just unjustly compressed. I demagnetized it, it got better, even though the cartridge did not pay a lot since I demagnetized it last time. It is still not where I would like it to be. It is ju...
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Yesterday I was more-or-less randomly reading Stereophile, skimming, in case something interesting to me appears, and Mr. Fremer in his Ortofon Verismo cartridge report told that top Ortofon cartridges use "6 nines" copper wire that has been gold pla...
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... through an asshole is shit.For a total of $250 and a couple of days work I was able to get much better sound out of a cartridge I paid $5K for. I understand Fremer is a jerk but in this case his article was certainly worth the time I spent readi...
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It would be nice to run a solid line from the cartridge to the SUT. I do this, but I do use connectors at the SUT; not because I think it's electrically "optimal" but because I don't want to crack the case on the unobtanium T3000, let alone glop...
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This has been one hell of a ride! The new caps had gotten so bad yesterday and this morning that I was almost convinced (again...) that my cartridge was finally, really shot this time; what else could it be? The upper mids and lower treble had suck...
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Wow! That review is filled to the brim with so much B.S. I was amazed, all that "You need this special $5000 hookup wire to get the most out of this cartridge" etc. I couldn't believe it. Has the state of audio reviewing truly been reduced to this sa...
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[quote user="Serge"] It's silly because the minuses outweight the pluses. In order to suspend the heavy disc constant magnetic field should be strong. This field will easily travel through the platter, since the platter is by definition non-magne...
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Adrian, it was my thinking that if I could have whatever I wanted, then I would have a hot-rodded Studer and a big library full of 15 ips master tapes and 1st generation dubs. But since I could not figure out/afford the tape thing, I went with the n...
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Of course I don't know if this also applies to your other cartridges that are working correctly through the same phono stage, but the VTA/bad electricity "problem" is peculiar to long line contact styluses. And as I also noted recently, po...
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Might I ask you what was the price of building this cartridge compare to but the new one NOS?...
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Today the girls took off early on a shopping bender, so I quickly fired up the rig and settled back with Cosi Fan Tutte. I enjoyed the music and the performances, but I could not help getting up every so often to tune the cartridge, trying to close ...
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Yes, it is anybody's guess how an active SS-only phono stage would sound with a low output MC, since this is usually a recipe for death (of Music). My own cartridge, for example, only puts out .125mV. I'm not so sure even the 2008 would work for my...
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Well so my Coralstone reached the ripe old age of 4.5 years and something over 2500 hrs this fall so I thought it was probably time to rebuild it. Then I got to thinking about the diamond cantilever option (which can be added to the rebuild at a muc...
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OK, I just read most of the cartridge roll out. It turns out that the "reviewer" basically told the Big Dealer what he wanted from the cartridge maker. I guess the reviewer likes small winding, low output MCs ahead of time, so the manufacturer was ...
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Today the electricity was wonderful and I had some time spent playing records. I was playing only my ill Shelter and I really did not like what I heard. At this point I might confirm that even the lowest bass is not where I would like it to be – it l...
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Last week I sent my DAW’s DAC cable for refueling. The FM programs are slow – the concert season starts in a couple of weeks and everyone are resting now. So, I am spinning some records that made me to pay attention to the status of my analog. What I...
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Excellent! Looking forward to hearing it. I have been curious about Micro Seiki's but have never even seen one, let alone heard one. A site like you describe would be very useful if it was done in a controlled fashion. The system to make the r...
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Yesterday a local audio guy to me with this idiotic cartridge experiments and I was forced to dis-calibrate my second arm. So, this morning I felt to go for Mravinsky Bruckner 8 that I have only on record and I was thinking what needle to put in my s...
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OK, I will try the SPU mono. I have some questions: It comes in a headshell with SME bayonet. I really do not need it. Can I remove the cartridge and mount it on a normal “tow-holes from top” tonearm? If it is removable then what be the mass of the ...
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It seems like most audio "auditioning" is of the hopeful sort, where we can in the best cases "hear something" that attracts us, and we can perhaps use experience to try to "intuit" whether we might be able to "extract" and use the particular compone...
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I personally think Johnathan Carr is .....well.....yeah.I've owned turntables since I was 18. I've tried many cartridges, many phono preamps, and tried the "exotic" cabling, gold connectors, etc... and I've tried capacitance loading and resistive loa...
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The TAP TVC does happen support a fully balanced topology, for whatever that's worth. I have not discovered anything difinitive about this for myself, however. I can say that I do not consider the unit's situational neutrality as anything...
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