Dear @atmasphere : "
the choice of cartridge is far less important than people make it ou...""
Since when?. Everything the same the cartridge self quality level performance is an makes a difference.
All those cartridges I posted are diferent even that all are very good designs but performs " different ". Different cartridges in same tonearm performs different and what we listen is different too. You can take an " universal perfect " tonearm and not two different cartridge models will sounds the same.
Every audiophile knows the importance to match the cartridge/tonearm combination and to make an accurated geometry alignment.
Vintage and today gimball pivoted tonearms are well designed with bearings and build materials beyond reproach of anything.
We can take vintage ones as: Lustre GST-801 or Technics EPA 100 or any Grace gimball design that after 30 years are still working really fine or today tonearms as SME V or Kuzma 4point or Triplanar and the like.
Where exist a serious problem with tonearms is in the unipivot designs.
Anyway, after the LP the cartridge is the king and the tonearm is an slave of the cartridge an obviously an important item too.
R.
Since when?. Everything the same the cartridge self quality level performance is an makes a difference.
All those cartridges I posted are diferent even that all are very good designs but performs " different ". Different cartridges in same tonearm performs different and what we listen is different too. You can take an " universal perfect " tonearm and not two different cartridge models will sounds the same.
Every audiophile knows the importance to match the cartridge/tonearm combination and to make an accurated geometry alignment.
Vintage and today gimball pivoted tonearms are well designed with bearings and build materials beyond reproach of anything.
We can take vintage ones as: Lustre GST-801 or Technics EPA 100 or any Grace gimball design that after 30 years are still working really fine or today tonearms as SME V or Kuzma 4point or Triplanar and the like.
Where exist a serious problem with tonearms is in the unipivot designs.
Anyway, after the LP the cartridge is the king and the tonearm is an slave of the cartridge an obviously an important item too.
R.