chakster
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| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? Thank you Sonofjim for your comment. I assume people love this tonearm, there are not so many Reeds turns up for sale used (unfortunately). After few years of using EPA-100 on my SP10mk2 i'd love to try something better. Preffer "12 arm for my sp1... | |
| Conical cartridge question When some people talking about trackabityly or quietness of some cartridges which make then better that others in these terms i just don't understand it. Believe it or not but i never had any tracking problems with cartridges of different types (m... | |
| Has anybody tried the Reed 3P? 3 years later anyone can comment on REED 3P "12 Cocobolo + ZYX Premium 4D (SB2) combo ? Anybody use that combination ?Effective mass of "12 Reed w/cocobolo arwand is 19g.Zyx Premium 4D compliance is 12x10-6 (vertical) & 15x10-6 (horizontal) @ ... | |
| High end cartridge made in USA? Yeah, very low output MI designed for MC phono stage - very interesting., Same with Soundsmith Sussurro Paua with output of 0.3 mV I'm curious how those low output MI sound with MC phono stages. As opposite to this Some people use high output MC w... | |
| favorite phono cartridge Different cartridges for different tonearms thats for sure. On the other hand it's a lot of fun to try many good once and thats a part of the hobby. How do we know the one we like is the best without trying some others? Upgrade is endless process.... | |
| Best Cartridge for technics sl1200mk2 ********* Doesn't the Zu Audio modded Denon 103 cart require a totally different tonearm to be mounted on a Technics 1200 series TT in order to get the best sq out of it? That was the impression I got when looking at the Zu Audio Denon years ago.Y... | |
| Conical cartridge question You'd better stay away of modern dj cartridges like current production of stanton, sure, ortofon. I have 17 years experience being a pro dj myself. They are all good trackers but the sound is very thin, not involving. The best sounding dj cartridg... | |
| Which headshell to use? Surely the leds are important but silver or copper is a matter of taste. Also if your tonearm internal/external wires are copper what's the point to use silver led wires in headshell or vise-versa? If your cartridge coil is copper why you need sil... | |
| High end cartridge made in USA? I believe oustanding Argent MC cartridges are all US made in the 80s, but they are very rare and hard to find nowadays. Argent made diamond, ruby and sapphire cantilever versions. The company also made acoustic room lens before they disappeared fr... | |
| Best Cartridge for technics sl1200mk2 I have these decks since 1998 and it was my dj set-up for ages. All cartidges i have tried in the beggining were total crap in terms of sound (but it was very long time ago).The best hi-end cartidges i have tried later and liked very much on this ... | |
| BEST TONEARM FOR HIGH COMPLIANCE MM How about new Well Tempered Lab LTD MK2 tonearf with effective mass of 10g (for very high compliance cartridges) ? | |
| Stand out phono stages Well, i'm not experienced with many phono stages, but for several years i use latest WLM PHONATA MC/MM with automatic impedance and two RIAA curves (one for vintage records and another for all others). The Phonata works very well between 25 till 1... | |
| Which headshell to use? I also have lightweigh (silver) Orsonic headshell for my Denon DL-107 MM and it was ok. Later i tried Technics EPA-100 with stock headshell with my Zyx Airy 3 MC and it was ok too. But when i bought heavier Zyx Live 18 headshell for ZyX Airy i was... | |
| Are these guys crazy? I have been shopped at Turntable Lab online 10 years ago, they are not new in business. I should have placed my orders over the phone to make it possible to ship to my area (Russia). I've bough some nice Funk & Soul records from them, great se... |