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[quote user="Wojtek"]Look what you have done to jack up pricess of vitavox (nobody was buying before your wistle) , Micro Seiki (gathering dust after Art Dudley wrote they bored the hell out of him) meittner dacs (suddenly the most musical in the...
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How nice that Chopin changed his mind about the waltz, and how nice that W. Malcuzynski tarried long enough to record these for us, using an instrument worthy of his talent and good engineers and equipment.Nice stereo, just a little over-blown. ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I finally concluded that I need a better mono cartridge. Screw you Denon-102! I can’t listen this midrange pusher anymore![/quote]Send it over to me Romy, I'll make sure the little offender doesn't escape! :) Brian (who lis...
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I don't suppose the input tube was a 437A?And perhaps (at that price) silver trannies? I have never never knowingly heard silver trannies (apart from my Ortofon step-up), and I wonder why anyone would pay that much for them when amorphous ...
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Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...
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I have been running my new Ortofon SPU Mono cartridge and can’t figure out why SPU has such a strong positive reputation and why some SPU users when I ask them about Sound of those cartridge they roll up their eyes. Yes, it is all around fine cartrid...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I juts got home, put a record to play and suddenly discovered that my SPU has it’s cantilever bent 90 degree and then even twisted vertically. It was perfectly fine last night!!! I have no idea what kind forced what appl...
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I would think that one would opt at least for a cartridge able to distinguish between different violins (well) recorded in different spaces. Although aural memory itself remains suspect, still one does want to entertain an illusi...
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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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I can’t figure out what it is since it is a first Ortofon that I opened. Can you tell me what it is? Anyhow, I am little disappointed as I anticipated that it should be a purely mono cartridges. I wounded what I have to do with it if I have only 2 ca...
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I don't think it is possible to deconstruct as you desire. Perhaps you need to talk to Per Winfeld at Ortofon (I can give you the email address).
The SPU Mono has 4 coils rotated 45 deg and connected for vertical modulation cancellation. The CG 25...
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It has been 1 year since I started working with the ML2s with all new tubes installed. The ML2s have been, by far, the biggest step I have taken in hi-fi in 45 years, and the "upgrades" I have done since the ML2s have necessarily been in a...
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As you can imagine, the ML2s simply surprised me. I thought only of optimizing my speakers, what might drive them to their best, to see what they could do with fewer amp-induced limitations. And the ML2s have done much of what I want...
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[quote user="zako"]It is not unusual for famous people to use there name for ENDORSEMENT,,SPORTS MEN HAVE MADE MILLIONS that way.. AMPEX used Frank Senatra..JBL used Benny Goodman...Its easy mony standing next to a product for photo Op and getting p...
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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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Since I painted myself into a corner with only one tonearm and one cartridge, and my one cartridge has gone to the Ortofon Spa in DK, I am sans phono until my cartridge returns. This means I have too much time to think about a phono stage, as oppose...
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Steve Leung, VAS Audio, saved my Ortofon MC3000II
cartridge after SoundSmith told me it was trash. Further, the cartridge tracks
better than ever now, and transients are better than ever now. Particulars are:
My right channel went dead “out of now...
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I touched on local electricity problems in a recent electricity post. Briefly, the local nuclear plant has been shut down by concerned politicians after "leaks" were detected. Setting aside mutated flora and fauna, sound has been worse more of the ...
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For a while now I have been regularly listening to "Big Works", something I did not even try a few years ago. Yesterday it was my most recent "pet" piece, another iteration of Ein deutsches Requiem. Something I have not really dwelt on to date is h...
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Well, I thought, $2, why not give it a go? In fact, if you like the stuff, $2 should set up you - and all your friends - for life!Meanwhile, who really owns and routinely uses a 200X stereo microscope to check his styluses? Not I. I can say howe...
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OK, this is useful also, in that you have not noted a "pattern" as you say. My point is closer to your suggestion, that I do change cart --- and sometimes buy new ones, B U T I do not buy other SUT (at least I try to avoid it). I'm currently waiting...
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After much talking with people I am still at lost what cartridge to get in order does not worry about cartridges anymore. It looks like I “fixed” the Shelter but now I need to take it off and to remove dust from within the cartridge – the ceremony I ...
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I remember the old Decca cartridges as quite maddening, a real love/hate connundrum. Unrivaled, totally addictive "immediacy", and dynamics that made anything else sound muffled and plain wrong, but also about as user-unfriendly and unrel...
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I'm not sure why my DAC cut out, other than it's a short. Meanwhile, I am listening exclusively to vinyl, as opposed to mostly vinyl. I sure wish I had FM, but no sense worrying about that in these parts, not to mention all the records I'...
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Interesting article, Guy. Typical of people to pursue something from the POV of reinforcing their own prior observations/investments, with no "control" and no "blind".Not that I'm any different here. Of course what I am doing is homing in...
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Needless to say, my arm (the Well Tempered Reference) is all about silicone. And indeed, damping does change - somewhat - with the temperature. However, it takes extreme temperature changes to make me feel the need to adjust damping (whic...
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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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Adrian, I have not tried the top Deccas for many years. My last experience with them was as ever: I absolutely loved their unrivaled immediacy and presence, which I found totally addictive, and it also made other cartridges sound pretty pathetic by ...
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[quote user="Axel"]OK, this is useful also, in that you have not noted a "pattern" as you say. My point is closer to your suggestion, that I do change cart --- and sometimes buy new ones, B U T I do not buy other SUT (at least I try to avoid it). I'...
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Looks like I skipped a couple years, there, and might as well skip this one, too. Nothing at all profound or noteworthy on the audio front, except I know where I want to go but need some "manufacturing" ideas and better focus to get there from where ...
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