rauliruegas
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| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear friends: As I said the 4MD-20X is very good performer with less drama than the great Acutex M320 and this less/lower " drama " makes that its sound been more relaxed that music in a live event but this you can be aware only trhough same time ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear @lewm : I already tested my 981HZ and I made something similar as you with the original Stanton cartridge and yes there is an improvement but in direct comparison with the same 981HZ and the Pickering stylus this one defenitive outperforms th... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear friends: This thread is full of discusions and some of them really hot ones. Opinions coming from audiophiles with different experience levels is what makes a good discusion and that’s why I always say: time to learning, each day is a learnin... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? @j2d2: Very good the Maestro and you can look too the Ortofon 2M Black or the Reson Reca or the Audio Note IQ3 or 2.R. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear @halcro : I own the original A&R, the original Garrot and the SAS replacement.I know you are a real expert on these cartridges and I know this fact not because your latest post but from many years ago.Jico makes very good cantilevr/stylus... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear @audpulse : The LOMC characteristics that made the " differences " are: transient response fast decay time at both frequency extremes. The quality performance at both frequency extremes is better in the LOMC cartridges.No, I'm not saying tha... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear @audpulse : Maybe I have it, who knows rigth now. I still own several cartridges that I never listened the 4MD-20X was an example of that and if @halcro did not posted here maybe I almost never " look at ".Even that this JVC MM cartridge was... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Something a little weird with this JVC cartridge is that its serial number has 8-9 digits !R. | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" Dear friends: Not only here but through other threads ( different or similar subjects. ) were exposed/spreaded/posted several lies that per sé is totally dishonest. Lies in favor of what? because here are facts that proved those lies and inexper... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" As the GST 801 the EPA ones are four point bearing. There is lmost nothing new with pivot tonerms designs but the Thales Statement design that is true evolution in pivot tonearm designs.R. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear friends: Here something important listen experiences with my JVC 4MD-20X sample. As you can imagine it's an extraordinary tracker, its abilities are second to none: through my very demanding evaluation/test cartridge proccess its run both fr... | |
| Tri-Planar Vll "SE Upgrade" Dear @bdp24 : EPA 100 models by Technics uses 20 of those rubies in its bearing. Terrific tonearms, very high quality performance levels.SME uses ABEC 9 bearings. Brickman are very good too. I think that today there are no true bad tonearm designs.R. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear friends: I already listen for a few days my JVC 4MD-20X MM cartridge that as I posted was manufactured by Audio Technica expressely to JVC specs/characteristics.Comes with Shibata stylus shape and berylium cantilever and with a 2mv of output ... | |
| NOS Grace F9E question As I said every day is a learning day and time to analize some great sounding LP recording labels where engineers used audiophile systems. This is an exception because normally it’s not this way.Examples: Wilson Audio where D.Wilson was a recordin... | |
| NOS Grace F9E question Dear @halcro : I was thinking as you and as a fact I was whom brougth to Agon that link. Unfortunatelly we never had the opportunity to ask them directly about and today two of them pass away.But in other forum with several recording engineers I h... |

