Cartridge Opinions - Sorry

Dear @atmasphere : " its a tricky arm to get the adjustments right. "

why is that?, I can’t remember to have any single trouble to set up many of the cartridges I owned with.

" that something was off with the Benz; it could simply be that it had a compliance value that in tandem with its weight and the resulting mechanical resonance, it simply was not going to be able to strut its stuff where the Koetsu did..""

Way wrong. Almost any of the Benz Micro are spot on with the MMT inside the ideal frequency resonance range and the Koetsu is out of that ideal range ! ! !.

R.

@daveyf  : In that specific regards it's and is what his posts showed. It does not matters that he is a " long standding manufacturer " that has no truly relationship with the subject here.

He can be an expert in what he manufacture and this is not under discussion.

Btw, "  Are you such an 'expert' in analog reproduction .. "". I never said that and the subject issue here is about the importance in tonearm and cartridge and nothing more. I gave many facts that are the foundation of my non-expert opinion and your and his arguments showed nothing about.

Which the problem, no one is expert in all and each audio subjects and certainly you and he are not in the thread issue. Again, at least what you showed here but he showed too in other thread about tonearms too.

The people that like to speak a lot like him will tend a higher probability to make mistakes and he is talking and talking. His last post is an example of those.

R.

Dear @unreceivedogma : I love those Abbe Lane and Jean Luc exquisite LPs and the Monroe picture just Wow !

and the ones here are something to own and listen it:

https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com/albums

Congratulations !.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.

@rauliruegas  What 'facts' have you given that the cartridge is more important in the hierarchy than the tonearm? It has been shown by Origin Live and others that the hierarchy is tonearm first and cartridge second. You don't believe this to be the case, but that is far from a 'fact'.

@tyray I fail to see the relevance of the question in your last post?

Hey daveyf,

What a snarky post. I try real hard to always have a civil conversation here and somehow I think you feel as if you think you are better or somehow more knowledgeable than some others here on this thread.

The cutting tool that is mounted on the end of the arm on a cutting lathe at the time of the lacquer mastering is not a cartridge/stylus.

This statement is complete and utter bullsh*t. There’re many types of styli used in a lathe cutter head. There also are drive coils which act in a similar fashion as a cartridge.

But if you are asking if that cutter is more important than the arm to which it is attached to, i would say again.. no.

No stylus, no drive coils, no cutting head, no master, no commercial record period.

Firstly, it is rookie and not roockie.

This is where you’ve pissed me off the most. You taking issue with Rauls impeccable english writing skills. Your subliminal bigotry is not wanted, welcome nor needed here.

This is the second time on this thread that someone has mistakenly made comments about Raul’s english writing skills on this thread. Raul does not and I repeat does not use a translation tool to communicate here. If he did those of us who know, that a internet translation tool really screws up the translation. What you see is actually Raul’s very good grasp of american styled english. I would not doubt if Raul not only speaks english, but french, portuguese and italian also. It’s a damn pity the most americans only speak one language, even though we supposedly have the best schools. Go figure.

my Blackbird has built in micrometer to adjust VTA, easy, precise, wonderful,

but, the cartridge is fixed directly to the long carbon arm. Azimuth adjustment by rotating the carbon tube a speck in it’s snug rear housing, tighten with set screw.

The SOB’s put the set screw on the bottom, what misery to get it right, the worst design feature. As azimuth is critically important, many a curse was issued, I should learn Russian to curse in their language.

elliottbnewcombjr

Thanks Elliot, I think the differences between a detachable headshell w/ tonearm and one piece tonearms are are good to know.