Dear @halcroĀ : Yes, the ceramic SAEC headshells are way resonant but the 8000 was designed with that angled headshell and its low weigth.
The S3 headshell you are using is the one you like it with the 88D but ( again ) that " alive " you mentioned maybe is not all about music sound but added distortions.
Look, I owned that S3 and owned other similar " functions " headshell and both makes more harm to the sound that almost goes against qualityperformance:
in the S3 headshell does not exist a direct intimate contact between the cartridge top plate and the headshell body because the cartridge is mounted in a separated metal plate and is here where the cartridge is atached followed for other link/screw that fix the plate to the headshell with another screw.
I owned the Goldbug Brier that comes with exactly with similar characteristics ( in that regards. ) than the S3 and even that the Goldbug headshell is a true beauty and with a lot higher excecution and quality control than the FR still develop additional distortions that I proved when discovered that the Goldbug Brier cartridge can be mounted in stand alone fashion in any other headshell.
Yes, I know that that way is what you like the more. You are more tolerant or less sensitive to those additional developed distortions than me.
R.
The S3 headshell you are using is the one you like it with the 88D but ( again ) that " alive " you mentioned maybe is not all about music sound but added distortions.
Look, I owned that S3 and owned other similar " functions " headshell and both makes more harm to the sound that almost goes against qualityperformance:
in the S3 headshell does not exist a direct intimate contact between the cartridge top plate and the headshell body because the cartridge is mounted in a separated metal plate and is here where the cartridge is atached followed for other link/screw that fix the plate to the headshell with another screw.
I owned the Goldbug Brier that comes with exactly with similar characteristics ( in that regards. ) than the S3 and even that the Goldbug headshell is a true beauty and with a lot higher excecution and quality control than the FR still develop additional distortions that I proved when discovered that the Goldbug Brier cartridge can be mounted in stand alone fashion in any other headshell.
Yes, I know that that way is what you like the more. You are more tolerant or less sensitive to those additional developed distortions than me.
R.