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| Lyra Delos and Soundsmith Mofimadness: 90% of the year I am deep in design and development, so I don't check email so frequently. Nonetheless, I don't see any of your emails (or cannot find them). No idea why. Overactive spam filters on my side? Something else?The followin... | |
| Lyra Delos and Soundsmith The Delos dampers were formulated and shaped with boron in mind. If (and that is a huge if) I would have used an aluminum oxide (ruby/sapphire) cantilever for the Delos, I definitely would have altered the damper formulations, and possibly their s... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi Raul:>So, I think ( with out any prove of that ) that a stylus glued design is an advantage.If you are only concerned with tracking performance, rather than hearing what the stylus is picking up from the LP groove, perhaps some kind of suspe... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Hi all, Raul:>I understand that the cantilever transmit no sound but the stylus " movements ".Ideally the cantilever will only transmit the stylus movements, but in reality a cantilever will have its own resonances and eigenmodes, which will be... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? From the perspective of a cartridge designer, the most commonly used figure-of-merit for a given material is propagation velocity - how rapidly it transmits sound. And this is determined by the material's specific gravity (lower is better), and Yo... | |
| Do 45 RPM records need higher anti-skate setting? I have a device which can show the actual side-forces imposed on the cantilever. Although the instantaneous side-forces are affected by groove drag (and therefore groove modulation), it appears to me that the general side-forces experienced by the... | |
| Retip for zyx Hi Nandric: Namiki, Ogura or Gyger can and will build completed cantilever assemblies. But regarding the designs of the cantilever assemblies that can be delivered, although these can be straight out of the catalogs (in which case retippers can bu... | |
| Retip for zyx Also keep in mind that, if you use a retipper rather an ZYX, the dimensions of the stylus block as well as how the stylus block is affixed to the cantilever will differ, along with the shape and dimensions of the stylus sections that contact the L... | |
| Lyra Atlas compared to Lyra Titan i There are zero engineering reasons why the Titan should be Lyra's best-performing cartridge. Likewise for the Olympos.The only logical reasons for why the Titan and/or Olympos could sound "best" in a specific audio system are ease of setup, compat... | |
| Fremer's review of the Anna cartridge A few comments about the Atlas:In the original article, Stereophile managed to get the SRA photos mixed up. Stereophile put someone other than Michael in charge of matching the photos to the captions, and they dropped the ball. I believe that Ster... | |
| Need recommendation on mono cartridge please Roby:>any true mono cartridge should not be used on stereo LP's as they have no vertical or up and down compliance!I've designed mono cartridge both with and without vertical compliance, and can confidently state that the hallmark of a true mon... | |
| Kuzma Stabi S? Need a small footprint turntable Dhcod: You could also consider the direct-drive Brinkmann Bardot, which is structurally similar to the Stabi S in that it has a minimalist plinth (I don't consider either to be plinthless).Turntable Weights is advertising that they have a pre-owne... | |
| New Delos cart The point is that what we normally measure and how we hear are not necessarily the same things.Usually when the sound changes, _something_ will be measurably different, but in many cases it won't be anything as simple as a 20 - 20kHz frequency swe... | |
| New Delos cart In the 2010 August issue of the German audio magazine "Stereoplay", the Delos was subjectively and objectively reviewed against other cartridges (at roughly comparable price-points). In addition to listening impressions, the article is complete wi... | |
| Skala or Kleos? Hi Syntax:>Every Audiophile will have his own kind of rating, what fits for one, doesn't for the next.This is often true.>I go for performance, to get the most information out of the groove,So do I.>Nice to listen to but hardly the right ... |