Hey Dover, I realize that you live to skewer, but the Oxford English Dictionary gives 2 definitions for “insoluble”, one of which is a synonym for unsolvable or incapable of being solved. If you want to argue on the subject at hand, go for it. Otherwise bugger off.
Fidelity Research FR7F history/changes
Recently fell in love with a front end I was supposed to be trying to sell for a friend that included this cartridge. Wonderful bass,dynamics, delineation of instruments with nice harmonics,... I bought the front end & recently bought a back up cartridge as well. What prompts the question is the minor cosmetic differences (believe they both are 6 digit serial numbers) - the 1st one (the magic 1) has a vertical stripe in front and seems to have a slightly different body size (the stylus guard of the 2nd cartridge does not quite fit; and the marked playback differences-the 2nd cart does not have the "technicolor" presentation of the 1st. It is OK but not what I was hoping for(It was supposed to have low hours and I saw nothing under the scope to contradict that). If there are experts or resources out there to fill me in, please do since when the time comes to retip, I assume that the magic might go away & I may need to hunt down another one & will need to figure out what criteria to look for to make sure I do not buy another that has less magic. Best wishes, LS
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Our former member dertonarm ( Der Tonarm) or Dietrich Brakemeir owner and designer by Acoustical Systems was long term admirer of FR-7 fz cartridge . He retipped his sample 4 times in Japan. I think he uses at present his own cartridges. But he is also interested in Ikedas cantileverless kinds so he got my REX to investigate. I assume he will try something in this ''direction''. But my intention in this post is to ''refute'' chakster ''prejudice'' against retips (grin). |
@chakster looks in the mirror each morning he sees a young 17 year old man, hasn’t aged a bit in 50 years. I’m 45 soon, not 67 Some of my NOS cartridges are a bit younger than me, but we are good. Some of my tubes are much older than me and they are still better than new tubes. |
You have to understand that in Russia nothing ages. When @chakster looks in the mirror each morning he sees a young 17 year old man, hasn’t aged a bit in 50 years. LoL :D |
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