Glanz moving magnet cartridges

Hi Nandric,

All I can really say is that the Glanz G series are designed with the aid of fortune. By this I mean that they are perfect fits for the Audio Craft AC3300 LB tonearms (with AP300 wand) and can be checked against their own protractor. My fortune was simply to have tried it on the AC3300 in the first effort and JOY!

I am certain you could find similar fits with other arms but I simply have had no need to assess their stunning performance in any other combination. Maybe it would be a fine fit on one of your other arms. I know that the only expert that I know on my cartridges (G series) suggested they might also be a good fit on the SME 3012R. I do hope you have the opportunity to try one to assess their performance for yourself. You already have some experience of the direction that these cartridges take you musically and I share your positive and mature assessment of that experience.

As always...

Dear nandric: Not only that but even you can't make a precise/accurate cantilever alignment!!!

R.

Dear Raul, I am sorry but I don't understand what you mean
with 'not only that but even you can't make a precise/accurate cantilever alignment!!!'. I have no idea to what 'not only that' refer nor what you mean by 'precise/accurate cnatilever alighment'.

Regards,

Dear Nandric: With an integrated cartridge design you can't move the cartridge to the left/right side incase that the cantilever came in with a tiny side deviation. Remember that when you make the cartridge alignment/overhang with the protractor ( MINT LP, for example. ) you must align not only the stylus tip but that the cantilever coincide with the protractor " lines "/align-lines and almost always to achieve that in precise way we need to make tiny very tiny cartridge changes to one or the other sides ( left/right. ).

Nandric, in those all times many of the cartridge alignment subjects that we already learnend were almost no " important " for the cartridge designers ( for different reasons, between them: no-knowledge about. ).

I know many of us already grow-up through the years ( and still doing every single day in favor of music. ) but unfortunately some of us ( including cartridge/tonearm/TT/phono stages designers. ) did not.

IMHO any tonearm/cartridge combination where you have set-up/alignment limitations means that what you are hearing is a higher distortion performance against the ones with out those limitations.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

I just received a Sony xl33 w/integrated headshell. The owner's manual asserts that on a Sony tonearm overhang error of +/- 3mm (!) is not a problem for it's "practical use". Either Sony is crazy or else they have a loose conception of practical use. Evidently, they are not crazy since the cart sounds pretty darned good, but I'm pretty sure that it could sound better if adjustments were possible.