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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.


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rauliruegas
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Hi @kennyc : Always is time to learn, you posted:

"  degrees is measured vertically, while null points (zenith) is measured horizontal. Therefore, once vertical is set up, it should remain the same across the entire record surface.  ""

A pivoted arm is tangential to the grooves only at null points where I understand we can to set up in that groove the stylus tip at 90°.
You said that after we make that set up " should remain " in all LP recordedd surface and my question is: 

how can remain when at the next and before the null points in all grooves the stylus tip is not any more exactly in the grooves but with and error ( tracking error. ) that impedes the stylus tip stays exactly at 90°  in the grooves ?  why distress about when of the hundreds of grooves we can achieve that in only 2 grooves.
 Of course that maybe I'm missing something/I'm wrong and you have the explanation about for I can understand your statement and all of us could learn something that it's way critical and important as you show it.

Your answer appreciated.

R.




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rauliruegas
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kenny: dead silence, why is that? only because I'm wrong and did not understand your posts?.

Well do it a favor and at least come back and post: You are wrong.  That's enough for me and maybe for all of us.

R.
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coltrane1
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A good Grado is good enough. Period. 
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Coltrane, as long as it does not hum on your turntable!

Rauliruegas, there is a slight change in VTA with tracking error but it is so slight that it is most probably meaningless. The current standard VTA seems to be 92 degrees. I use a usb microscope and set VTA so that the oncoming surface of the stylus is exactly at 90 degrees. This seems to work well. I went through the process of changing VTA in about 20 minute increments up +- 1 degrees and could not hear a significant difference. This was with a Clearaudio Da Vinci a cartridge with a fine line stylus. 
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@mijostyn That 92 degree SRA thing is an approximation- an average. Any LP will actually be slightly different. Hard to know how much of it you'll actually hear.
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