@lewm
"Pure carbon in the form of graphite.
True carbon-graphite is not "graphite" as in carbon fiber golf clubs, tennis rackets, etc.
While such products are often mistakenly called graphite, carbon fiber is a composite material with totally different mechanical properties than pure carbon-graphite.
Commonly used in industrial applications including nuclear power plants and steel mills because of its high thermal conductivity, graphite is made from carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal, honeycomb pattern that are tightly bound in ultra-thin sheets. These sheets are themselves very loosely bound to one another - which is why powdered graphite is one of the best industrial lubricants in existence - and one of the reasons graphite is so effective at absorbing energy."
Both your your headshells called Carbon-Fiber and both share the same structure with a typical (for everything called CF nowadays) cubic surface. You can see same surface even on cars. It’s funny, but i can see even CF hats.
I like my vintage Grace Carbon-Fiber headshell from the 80’s, but it has nothing to do with modern Yamamoto or Oyaide. The Grace CF headshell looks like my Graphite Mat or those new Graphite headshells from OMA and Schick. All those products does not have that cubic structure (you have on yamamoto) and probably made of the different material, different formula, different properties as explained by Boston Audio.
The sticker on the Original Grace box says "Carbon-Fiber Headshell", but again this is not the same material as the Yamamoto or Oyaide.
This is why i think we’re talking about different things here and what i like is not what you like because the CF is different too.
The BA mat and OMA mats made from a slice of Graphite, here is the manufacturing process. They call it Carbon-Graphite.
But the Carbon-Fiber mat is completely different, just like the CF headshell you guys have.
The Grace shell i like officially called CF, but does not looks like any new CF products.
I can’t say anything bad about The Mat (which is BA mk3), but even this mat is not what some of you guys owned, because it is not BA-1 or BA-2, it is "BA-3" under SakuraSystems brand now.
I am not sure I get your point. Who is it that confused the graphite Boston Audio record mat for the carbon fiber Yamamoto (or Oyaide, or etc) headshell?
"Pure carbon in the form of graphite.
True carbon-graphite is not "graphite" as in carbon fiber golf clubs, tennis rackets, etc.
While such products are often mistakenly called graphite, carbon fiber is a composite material with totally different mechanical properties than pure carbon-graphite.
Commonly used in industrial applications including nuclear power plants and steel mills because of its high thermal conductivity, graphite is made from carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal, honeycomb pattern that are tightly bound in ultra-thin sheets. These sheets are themselves very loosely bound to one another - which is why powdered graphite is one of the best industrial lubricants in existence - and one of the reasons graphite is so effective at absorbing energy."
In addition to my two Yamamoto CF headshells, I also own the Oyaide one, just to see for myself if there is any qualitative difference in their sound(s). So far, no.
Both your your headshells called Carbon-Fiber and both share the same structure with a typical (for everything called CF nowadays) cubic surface. You can see same surface even on cars. It’s funny, but i can see even CF hats.
But Noromance does not like either the graphite mat nor the CF headshell, and he knows the difference. Bill Stevenson doesn’t like the CF headshell either. You, Halcro, and I do like the CF headshell.
I like my vintage Grace Carbon-Fiber headshell from the 80’s, but it has nothing to do with modern Yamamoto or Oyaide. The Grace CF headshell looks like my Graphite Mat or those new Graphite headshells from OMA and Schick. All those products does not have that cubic structure (you have on yamamoto) and probably made of the different material, different formula, different properties as explained by Boston Audio.
The sticker on the Original Grace box says "Carbon-Fiber Headshell", but again this is not the same material as the Yamamoto or Oyaide.
This is why i think we’re talking about different things here and what i like is not what you like because the CF is different too.
The BA mat and OMA mats made from a slice of Graphite, here is the manufacturing process. They call it Carbon-Graphite.
But the Carbon-Fiber mat is completely different, just like the CF headshell you guys have.
The Grace shell i like officially called CF, but does not looks like any new CF products.
I can’t say anything bad about The Mat (which is BA mk3), but even this mat is not what some of you guys owned, because it is not BA-1 or BA-2, it is "BA-3" under SakuraSystems brand now.