You'll find it hard to find a cartridge that doesn't work with this creation
SPU. Or at least the counterweight in mine wasn't able to balance it. I bought a bigger after-market counterweight on eBay though, so should be fine now. 😎
halcro You'll find it hard to find a cartridge that doesn't work with this creationThere's no such thing as a universal pickup arm. An arm must be matched to a cartridge that's suitable to the arm's mass. |
There’s no such thing as a universal pickup arm. An arm must be matched to a cartridge that’s suitable to the arm’s mass. A mid-mass arm like MA505 with a removable headshell is as close to a universal arm as you are going to get as the weight can be tailored to a great degree by changing the headshell. (Some other arms allow changing the entire arm wand, like my AC3000/4000.) Ignoring my own comment above for the moment, here are examples of people on this same forum claiming the MA505 sounds great with a high-compliance Empire and a low-compliance Koetsu: http://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-empire-scientific-co-4000diii-cartridge (in_shore’s comment) http://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/micro-seiki-ma-505-arm-how-good-is-it |
There's no such thing as a universal pickup arm. An arm must be matched to a cartridge that's suitable to the arm's mass. You're welcome to live your audio life by this spurious maxim but I would have missed out on dozens of glorious arm/cartridge combinations had I not discovered the error of this 'myth' 😎 |
I bought a bigger after-market counterweight on eBay though... Oh yes...I forgot about this. The limiting factor with the MA-505 is that its counterweight is undersized for heavy cartridges. I bought an additional weight for just such events although I rarely used it due to mainly running MM cartridges. |