Magic Diamond vs Airtight PC1?

Not only do they look the same, they essentially spec the same except for the slightly lower recommended range of tracking force (2.2 to 2.8 grams for the 103).

On top of that, the manufacturer was apparently a huge fan of the 103 many years before marketing this cartridge, extolling its virtues and ridiculing other moving coils as being inferior in design and overpriced!

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/73/736555.html

This one really does look like a duck and walk like a duck.

We can determine that it is not a 103R as the yoke and generator are gold in color on that cartridge.

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That small bit of fudge factor is trivial. The 103 can play over it's 2.5vtf; the suspension is tuff enough to take it. And the 42ohms? Close enough as many of us know.

To make some overhead in this field is common. To charge what looks like $5 all the way to 30K?!?! shame shame shame. It is the most egregious case of this kind of sham.

And what about the customer? What of him? I am sure he will defend his embarassment to the end.

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Do you think he'll 'Rush' to it's defense?

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He may just want this whole thing to blow away. Don't you feel a responsibility to keep the issue afloat?

I don't hear any of the other posters chiming in anymore in defense either.

ps: Raul did not like the 103 but loves the MD. Does that not invalidate the cat, or what?

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