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| Boron Cantilever and Ruby Cantilever, Why Ruby? Nandric: You have my deepest sympathies; the magic is gone and your life may never be the same ;)I am curious: do you have any comments as to how your Zyx sounds with Axel's boron/shibata compared to the original Zyx cantilever/stylus?Now I am no ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Chakster: I am quite aware of everything you stated in your last post with the exception of the unique mounting of the stylus on your Zyx. Unlike you, I’d be quite content to have an aftermarket retipper do the catridge at a significant discount t... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Chakster: your position on Juki is well known (almost legendary at this stage from being repeated so much here). Anyone capable of doing a google search can come up with lots of information on Juki. He's been selling cartridges and other audio rel... | |
| Turntable got absolutely crushed by CD Here’s my (very simplified) take. My apologies if most of what I say has been covered. There are two major factors here contributing to what the OP has found. 1) Zu 103 is not a bad cartridge, but is a poor match with the VPI arm. Assuming proper ... | |
| Denon DL 103 modifications and re-body questions thread I ran modified Denon 103R's for close to five years and moved on to other cartridges about 3-4 years ago. The Denon generator is indeed very good. The weak spots in the cartridge are the body and cantilever/stylus. I ended up running 103R's in bot... | |
| Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced.. With respect to styli, "nude" does not necessarily mean that the stylus will not be glued to the cantilever (most in fact will be-laser mounting is another option); it simply means that the entire stylus is diamond. Bonded or tipped styli, on the ... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... Have bought a couple of relatively inexpensive cartridges and other items from Juki in the past. Wouldn’t hesitate to deal with him and, if I recall correctly, he did take a fairly expensive cartridge back on return/exchange once from someone post... | |
| Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced.. 5 grams heavier and $900 more. The way of the world in cartridge land. | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... @dgarretson Yes, the Accuphase cartridges tend to fly a bit under the radar, which I think is the primary reason you can still purchase one without stylus or broken cantilever at pretty reasonable prices. I paid $112 on Ebay. My system is certainl... | |
| The nightmare of the cartridge buyer... In my case, back around 1980, when I switched into moving coils I managed to listen to the Dynavector Ruby and the Accuphase AC-2, both of which had been judged neutral-sounding but "musical" by TAS, and finally purchased the AC-2. Two years la... | |
| Rega p6 RB330 how to get XLR output You cannot simply go balanced from the stock Rega arm (unlike almost every other arm out there) to your phono stage because Rega combines the ground with the left channel internally. Separating the ground from the left channel, or a total arm rewi... | |
| Phono cable advice. Good luck! As a geezer, I am totally confused by the wireless thing but have fun and report back after you're done so you can rile up the masses here a bit more haha! | |
| Phono cable advice. Wow-tough crowd here! It’s getting a bit nasty.I may as well throw in a few comments.Firstly, Dopogue is absolutely right about cable burn in, especially on phono cable which is subjected to such a small signal under normal circumstances that it m... | |
| Phono cable advice. I am not noromance or wolf garcia but yes, your link to the RCA to RCA Jelco is the same cable sold with a phono DIN to RCA or XLR as the Jelco 501 and Jelco 506 respectively. For what it is worth, the Jelco cables are constructed with Mogami 2534... | |
| Phono cable advice. The Audiosensibility Impact SE copper cable is an outrageous bargain, and an even more outrageous bargain when the US to Canadian dollar exchange rate is factored in. Significantly better than the Jelco cable, which I’ve owned, grossly superior to... |