@bifwynne Let me know if you decide to retire the Kleo. I'll be happy to liberate it. ;-)
Highest detail cartridges
Which cartridges give the greatest amount of detail? Imaging, soundstage file detail. These are qualities to consider. I know Lyra cartridges are high on that list. What others equal or better Lyras. Is there anything below, say $1500, that is in that same category? Detail with reasonably flat frequency response.
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Certainly @chakster Denon's DL-1000A MC cartridge had an effective tip mass of 0.077mg. https://www.denon.jp/jp/museum/products/dl1000a.html Even their lower-priced DL-305 got down to 0.168mg. These cartridges (as well as Technics 205, 305, 100) were from an era when various audio manufacturers competed with each other to see who could produce the more impressive-appearing specifications, whether the products were speakers, amplifiers, turntables, cartridges, tuners etc. But at least in my experience, such specs don't have much relation to how a component actually sounds. |
Welcome back JCarr. Our fear was that you left us. We need a kind of ''super authority'' in this conundrum about the question ''why do carts sound different?'' Considering the fact that technical issues are the same or similar the ''only'' other possibility is ''the art of the designer''. He must or should voice or ''tune'' his own carts and this imply a.a. musicality. So those names like Ikeda, Takeda, Lukatschek, Van den Hul, Allaerts and J.Carr are not coincidental . However by ''explanation'' we are used to think in technical terms so there are conjectures about stylus shape, cantilever material, moving mass, etc., etc. So we move from the conundrum to ''parts- wholes'' distinction with as many ''explanations'' as are the participants in the discussion. |
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