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Cartridge Opinions - Sorry

Yeah, another dumb "what's your opinion on these cartridges" thread. Back in the late 80's we had dealers where you could listen to the stuff.

So anyhow I have a Linn LP12 with Ittok arm and a 30 year old Audioquest B200L cartridge. I'm running it through the phono stage of a Jeff Rowland Coherence One into a Spectral DMA90 through a set of Kef R300's.

I prefer a little more laid back sound (err on the side of forgiving instead of fatiguing) but I like a lot of upper end detail, precise soundstaging, air, etc.

So far I'm considering an Ortofon Quintet S Black, Hana SL or a Benz wood - something at or below the $1k level.

I'd love to hear any opinions, suggestions, and experiences with those cartridges or others in the price range. I could possibly go higher if there is something out there that really shines for less than $1,500.

Thanks.


klooker
rauliruegas
13,129 posts
 
Dear @kennyc :  This comes from WBF, one of my posts and in this thread you can read that Myles is or was the  senior editor in Positive Feedback magazyne: he is a professional reviewer :

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/counted-out-way-to-soon.34/page-2#post-14134


and the Administrator on this audio forum:

https://www.audionirvana.org/forum/the-audio-vault/analog-playback/turntables/65787-i-said-i-would-never-buy-another-turntable-argh


Rwegards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,
R.



rauliruegas
13,129 posts
 
Dear friends:  https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/jan-allaerts-cartridge-experience

I posted that link because was posted in the WBT forum:

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/zyx-diamond-vs-jan-allaerts-mc-2-formula-one.23879/#post-468266

btw, @kennyc : you can see that lucy25 and jfrech posted in both forums.

Btw too. In the Agon thread I made a mistake because the MC cartridge was invented by Grado not Ortofon and what I wanted to post in that thread is that was Ortofon the first whom put LOMC cartridges in sale till today.

Kenny, in all interned audio forums exist some gentlemans with very high knowledge levels: AA, VE, WBT, AudioKarma, etc, etc and obviously in Agon ( one of those Agon audiophiles is M.Lavigne who post here and in wbt ) but as always the high amount of audiophilñes in those forums have not that so high knowledge levels and like to learn exactly as me.

@mijostyn , maybe you can find out an Allaerts MC2 finish gold second hand. In those times jfrech puts in sale his sample and solded. 

R.


rauliruegas
13,129 posts
 
@kennyc : good that you are near an expert on set up but till now you don't answer my questions to you:

"  How do you mantain exactly those 90 degrees ( which groove do you choice to make the alignment and why and where in the LP surface and with which LP. ? ) and 92 degress at each single groove ? ""

or you are only trolling in the subject?

R.


lewm
13,721 posts
 
Raul,  The Allaerts cartridge REALLY exhibits 70db separation at 100Hz?  That's about as unbelievable as the other specs on stereo separation you posted, not to mention 0.1% distortion!!!
Allaerts can say what they want, but don't tell me you believe those absurdly good numbers.  You're too smart for that.
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mijostyn
8,570 posts
 
I do not buy used cartridges Raul. It is too risky. I am tempted to buy an Allaerts cartridge. Hopefully he will still be in business when I get the chance. I have other fish to fry first. I REALLY want to get a Schroder LT and put it on a Dohmann Helix 2. Dream on.
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