Fidelity Research cartridges

Dear chakster, there was an thread about ''old school tonearms''
or similar. There are of course also ''old school  gentlemen''.
Your kind of music was (back) then not considered as ''decent''.
Decent was only classical music with exception of national (folk) music. The excuse was of course patriotism. 
Curious how ''decency'' can change as function of time. I got
so to speak an reproach in the sense ''those old people like only
classical music''. However those ''old scold'' regarded your kind
of music as noise not as music. Comparing funk with, say, Bach
is a kind of sacrilege. No wonder you like MM kinds (grin).

However those ’’old scold’’ regarded your kind
of music as noise not as music. Comparing funk with, say, Bach
is a kind of sacrilege. No wonder you like MM kinds (grin).

@nandric

Impressionism in Art was considered as rubbish in the beginning, so what?

Different strokes for different folks.

I was working in Saint Petersburg Philharmonia for half year and was listening to classical music live on stage, not on the records. This is one of the best place for classical music in Russia.

But my musical taste is different than yours, what’s the problem? My age is also way different.

For me and for many others the 70’s is probably the best period of time for music in many genres, no matter is it rock (which i don’t like) or jazz-funk and soul. If i stuck in 20th century then where you’re, in the 18th century?

P.S. I like both MM and MC cartridges, but i do not listen to classical music at all, sorry.

I have Bach LP, local pressing from the 60's, never played it, the cover looks very nice :) 

Dear chakster, I was only teasing you. On the Balkan we have very
exciting folk music. It is more popular than classical or jazz. 
But what do you mean with ''My age is also way different''? 
 I see that you admire many carts which I also admire. Those
are primary MC kinds but our consensus suggest no relation to
age (grin). 

Discovered an interesting sample of the Fidelity-Research FR-7f

The cartridge body is silver color just like older FR-7, but the model is FR-7F (which is normally black). 

Silver body version of the FR-7f must be rare, probably from the first bunch with low serial numbers. 

The difference is only color (since visually it's FR-7f) ? 

Anyone ? 

Diggin’ deeper in Fidelity-Research products from the past I finally received the latest models. It’s MCX-3 designed by Ozawa-San for FR in the 80s, later in 86 Ozawa established Shelter.

Look at the images of my NOS MCX-3
This New Old Stock sample has been stored for over 30 years and I’m a second owner. Opened the box yesterday, what a beauty!

Some interesting facts from his webside:

“Born in Tokyo Ozawa-San was fascinated from boyhood by the timbre of music instruments and started self-designing audio products to realize high fidelity sound reproduction. He designed many tube amplifiers when he was in junior high school age, and majored in electrical engineering at the university with aiming an amplifier designer, but he found the charm of analog pickup which can practice the whole design of sound reproduction that he imagines. In 1982 he joined Fidelity Research (FR) and started his career as a phono cartridge designer. He participated to design MC phono cartridges of MCX-3, MCX-5 and other products during his work at FIdelity-Research.”

Few month ago I bought my first Shelter, it’s model 5000. Same style of packaging, very nice display case (similar to PMC-3, but bigger).

So many great cartridges in the vaults now. I’m excited