I have five different stylus profiles including those two and I am not sure how much they affect the performance of any individual cartridge. These are all great cartridges in their own right and all a little different. Their tracking ability is a little different but I am not sure how much the stylus profile affects this either. You would have to put these styluses on exactly the same cartridge to figure this out.
shibata or microline, pls respond ONLY if you specifically have tried both.
I only want to hear FIRST hand experience, not lecturing please.
These two seem too confusing to me. I have a VM540ML AT cartridge and cannot decide whether Shibata or Microline is better. AGAIN, PLS DO NOT LECTURE ME ABOUT **OTHER** EXPENSIVE CARTRIDGES.
To me obviously the music quality matters. However, I also give a lot of importance to how durable one stylus over the other one is AND very importantly, which one is easier (less finnicky) to set up. Also, it is important that the stylus does not degrade the vinyl excessively.
If you tell me an elliptical is easiest to set up but is 10% less musical, I would probably go with that too.
So.... any ACTUAL experience with either of these two styli ?
Thanks
These two seem too confusing to me. I have a VM540ML AT cartridge and cannot decide whether Shibata or Microline is better. AGAIN, PLS DO NOT LECTURE ME ABOUT **OTHER** EXPENSIVE CARTRIDGES.
To me obviously the music quality matters. However, I also give a lot of importance to how durable one stylus over the other one is AND very importantly, which one is easier (less finnicky) to set up. Also, it is important that the stylus does not degrade the vinyl excessively.
If you tell me an elliptical is easiest to set up but is 10% less musical, I would probably go with that too.
So.... any ACTUAL experience with either of these two styli ?
Thanks
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