chakster
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| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black I did recommeded a much better turntables if he would consider it with $1200-1500 budget (not with $700 budget), those turntables are brand new Technics direct drive. If you think an upgrade from one belt drive to another belt drive (actually just... | |
| Ortofon 2M Bronze I gave you a link, it has nothing to do with the magnets, it's about cartridge inductance and the difference is so little that you will hardly notice. The difference is cartridge inductance (700mH for Blue and 630mH for Bronze), 1db higher chann... | |
| Ortofon 2M Bronze @mjcmt Where did you get that information ? What do you mean by different magnet? Please read this thread on Steve Hoffman forum and read feedbacks from people who swap the styli on any 2M series which you think are incompatible (that's not true). | |
| MC suggestions @johnss would suggest you change the load resistors from metal film to Vishay bulk Foil. no comparison. the noise floor will drop and micro detail will come through in spades without any sort of frequency balance changes. Absolutely, i have re... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black @uberwalts There is also an Astatic mf300 on ebay, NOS including headshell for $599. No idea if that is twice as good as the mf100? No, it’s notAstatic MF-100 is like Glanz MF-71L, Astatic MF-100 is like Glanz MF-31L. Huge upgrade over all of th... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black @pbnaudio good, remember it was one of Raul’s favorites back in the day in MM thread. For higher price that seller may have Glanz MFG-610 LX (you can ask). Glanz is better (different cantilever and different tip), but for double price. The seller ... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black @jji666 why do you think a tube phono stage (especially a cheap one) is a good idea ? After a years of tube rolling with some expensive NOS tunes i ended up with SS gear and it is so much better. Regarding the phono stage i think the tube must be ... | |
| MC suggestions @lewm By all accounts, the original MC2000 bears an aluminum cantilever with a "fine line" tip. That’s another way of saying "line contact". According to our friend, Nikola, Axel had a small supply of actual original alu cantilevers with "fine li... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black I would second the idea of NOT ever buying a used cartridge/stylus unless you know the seller well. @chrisoshea We are talking about NEW OLD STOCK cartridge, not a USED CARTRIDGE? Do you know what is New Old Stock ? Never used, never mounted, lik... | |
| MC suggestions @lewm I guest you don’t have an Ortofon booklet with your sample refurbished by Axel for Nandric? There is all info about the cantilever in the booklet every NOS owner have in the package, there are some nice pictures of the cantilever and stylus ... | |
| MC suggestions First of all you have to read this article about tonearm/cartridge resonance. This will help to select a cartridge for your amr correctly. If your cartridge is made in japan then compliance measured @100Hz, but for correct calculation you must kno... | |
| MC suggestions Ortofon MC2000 is spectacular if you have an appropriate high gain phono stage or dedicated SUT for it. I’ve been able to find unused NOS (New Old Stock) and the package is very impressive with invitation to the ortofon Golden Ear Club. This is a ... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black If I install the 2m black cartridge (with black body) on my mmf 2.2 and properly setup vta, vtf, azimuth, overhang etc. will I be able to at least extract 90% of the 2m blacks potential in performance? No, you will never get the quality of 2M Bla... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black @viridian And I will respectfully disagree... With turntable and tonearm like yours you're indeed free to disagree, you sold it as i can see, hope you can buy a coreless direct drive to forget about the "sound" of turntable forever. Personally ... | |
| Ortofon 2M Bronze It would be around $440.00 to purchase the entire new Bronze cartridge. Just would like to save a little cash if possible. Thanks, Boogerhead. If you want to save, It would be better to purchase an entirely different cartridge for $280 with Nude... |