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Brian (or someone else who knows...)-I just obtained an SPU mono today, believing it was the 25 micrometer stylus version when I purchased. In fact, it is the 65 um version. Is the 65 ONLY suitable for 78 playback, or is this thing usable...
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Thank you Brian - you confirmed what I feared. Caveat emptor. The seller is the former Van denHul repair guy in Germany - Detlev Brod. He offered a new SPU mono, at a price too good to be true. I specified the GM25,...
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John, I had nothing to do with Voyd or Pink Triangle, I also not a big fan of Audio Note UK.
Mono cartridges is good, in fact I feel that Mono Cartridges IS A MUST for anyone who do analog more of less serious. Defiantly a second arm is more conveni...
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That sounds a decent price, less than my (Japan-sourced) SPU Mono.However, SPU's the gal for me and I reckon we're married for life.I listen at civilised levels too John - tho' neighbours have just left for 3 months in Kenya........Brian....
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[quote user="Axel"] …did you experiment with either primary or secondary SUT loading using your various carts? If so would you mind to share any of your findings? [/quote]
Or course I did, anyone did. I am not sure what findings you would like...
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I have for a month or so the Allnic H-1500 II SE Plus phono stage sitting in my home. It is two chassis phonostages with tube rectification, tube regulation, LCR 600R filters, own Allnic step up transformer for MC needles, 5842/417A in gain stage...
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Romy, a true old-fashioned mono cart, like the Ortofon C Series, has NO vertical compliance at all so theoretically could cause heavy damage to a stereo trace. However I am in correspondence with a chap who does play SOME old stereo pressings with a ...
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Thanks, starboy.
It is educational. Your Mantis might be an interesting cartridge and it is too bad that there is no way getting any frame of its performance besides buying it. Among the people I know, in whose listening rooms I was and why were and...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] When you used your 25Dia then can you recall a similar experience at the beginning of the cartridge live (sharpness and bass)? [/quote]
I have yet to own a CG25 Romy, my very first Ortofon - SPU Mono - is on its way fro...
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...but whether it would be a better match to your speakers than the SPU who's to say.
I am planning an SPU Mono vs CG 25 comparison in my system in the fairly new future. Unlike your speakers mine could do with a little help in that area.
Maybe...
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This kind of freakish subject and the title of this thread is most likely is very misleading. Commonly the term “last something” is used as “best of the best” after which there is nothing else to explore. This definition grotesquely stink with heavy ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It would be more complicated then that… as they do better or worth under the different conditions… I will be posting my further comments into this thread… Stand by….[/quote]A few words about the measurements above. When I m...
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Hi Paul,WTF is probably the right question. The time has been the problem - in the past 2,5yrs Ive set up my own audio company and only recently came back to working on the front end of my system.I changed the concept and bought the FR64S arm togethe...
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What really pisses me off is that my second arm/cartridge has a very strange effect that I did not see neither in this arm (Micro 282) not in this cartridge (Ortofon SPU Classic). I am taking about dynamic compression. In fact it is very seldom you c...
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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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"Bugger dogma!". Romy is quite right challenging my obeisance to the Series 1. These things are so rare and when found are likely to be in a somewhat less than pristine condition.
However, it is not only the arm tube that is more massive but the ...
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I am all set with my reference arm but my dally arm with SME 3009/Otophone SPU Classic severely underperforms in my view. The arm use Otophone SPU Classic that is all together is OK balanced cartridge. Nothing overly exciting but more or less neu...
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What impedance is the SPU working into? My recollection (10 years since I used one) is that it liked to see a very low impedance load. I would expect puffy, diffuse low frequencies if the impedance was too high. I do recall that it was a very 'm...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] So, I would call Jubilee as a noise highlighting cartridge. (BTW, there is one subject regarding it that I need to look further ….) [/quote]
This is VERY interesting phenomena that I am trying to decipher but so far unsuc...
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Yep, I fixed it. If does sound very good now, exactly how it has to be. It turns out that my suspicion were correct: my Micro’s fat cable has died on me. I absolutely assure you that no one would believe that a regular phono cable able to introd...
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While it may be that a given "basement" operation really means to "do a better job" in terms of QA and/or sonic results, the technical difficulty (and cost) of actually doing this with tiny "critical specification" parts must be daunting, to say the ...
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Fi-analy started listening the FR combo! The setup is somewhat haphazard:* P2S unknown - trying to get 231.5mm recommended by the Germans, took the pains and the cost to design and make a special collar but missing a laser engraved protractor to see ...
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Brian,
Thanks again, I heard about this guy but never dealt with him or heard his cartridges. Can you dig his phone number or his email (I do not do faxes)? Certainly it is t might be an interesting opportunity to do something with it. My current SP...
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Hi, George
First off all I have to mention that I use Max 282 as my “second” arm. I mean my best stereo cartridge I use with 3012 as I feel that it has more interesting lover bass and upper bass then 282. The 282 has slightly hollow and slightly bor...
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It is actually sound like a promising cartridges and it does not sound like nether SPU nor Shelter
Before mounting I made a few shots of the needle to see how it will be wearing. Where is the best place to keep the pictures as not at my site? At t...
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I believe the $5000 Swiss-built "Magic Diamond" cartridges use the SPU motor assembly - and weren't EMT cartridges also based on Ortofon?
Truly the Momma and Poppa of MCs.
Brian.
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Ronny, I might not be necessarily silicon, volcanic stones or compressed particles from the Galileo comet. Any none-magnetic mass will do, I use any bronze bolt if I wish. My selection of silicone was just because it is damping and convenient. I use ...
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drdna wrote... the Mantis is probably still thin, inner detail and no connection to sound...As you have never heard it please explain this not to me (as I write this just to amuse myself) but to yourself while smoking a Cohiba Esplendidos.Romy wrote....
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[quote user="N-set"] While I agree that they are typical "full of nothing" boxes and in no way I'd like to defend anything connected to them, butI doubt that the SUT-to-grid distance is such a critical layout parameter: 1) this wiring is within the b...
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Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know:
“I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner? There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...
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