Replicant 100 stylus

dear pinda, as you already know there not only '' levels of styli'', but also

''levels  of knowledge'' involved in our ''discussions'' . Alas I am forced

to add ''the level of humour'' in order to react to your contribution. I must

also confess that my ''associative thinking'' was not capable to connect 

Replicant with copy. I had to many variables  to think about.

Anyway personal psychology is not an accuse, Thanks for your

contribution and I am glad that you deed not start your own thread.

dear pinda, I checked your reference . I theached civil law and intellectual

ownership. According to me one can't speak about Gyger styli in general.

As i mentioned elsewhere Van den Hula designed Gyger I, II and S.

So those are different animals in the sens of patent law. ''Symilar '' will

not do, The reason is that ''all are similar to Shibata''. Anyway Gyger I,

Ii and S have different  dimension  and imply different patents for

Van den Hul. So Replicant may look as but can't be ''identical'' with

any Gyger kind.

In my experience with dozens of cartridges over the years, Shibata styli tend to pickup every bit of surface noise from the grooves. The Replicant 100 as used by Ortofon on their Cadenza Bronze (which btw uses a tapered aluminum cantilever) on the other hand is somehow able to avoid such surface noise to an amazing degree. On several records where I was used to hearing the surface noise with all other carts had the background become virtually silent when I switched to the Cadenza Bronze. Several friends who have also switched to the CB have had the same experience as far as how eerily quiet it is in the groove.

No mercy no wine? Oh well, life is hard and than you die!
But life’s too short for the sort of stylus naval gazing as witnessed by pindac’s link. Jeez.

identity conundrum

There are two criteria:

1. leibniz  indiscernibilis based on properties 

2. Frege's based on meaning or sense

What we can discriminate or not is not easy to say ,say one egg and the

other.

The evening star and the morning star 

Those say, names , are obviously different but both refer to the same,

uh, planet Venus. However before discovery that both stars are

the same people had the right to give them different names. Aka

geocentric world view,

Well we think that Geiger refers to something else than VDH. 

But Van den Hul invented ,uh, Geiger stylus , but with his own

patent . He even claimed that Namiki has  stolen his invention.

Aka not paid royalties. 

So it seems that our Replicant , Paratrace and Decca are

copies of Van den Hul. But which one ? Geiger I , II or S?

edgewear I am really sorry but I could not resist .