Mono Cartridge

@billstevenson

For those of you with knowledge of Miyajima, why are they requiring such high VTF? I would buy one otherwise.

i’m not a cartridge designer. so i’d be guessing about the VTF aspects of Miyajima’s. but 3.5 grams is not crazy heavy. many MM’s are that or heavier. i’ve owned a 1.0 mil Miyajima tracking at 3.5 grams for 9 years. zero apparent groove wear and some of my records have been played many hundreds of times.

my moving coil Clearaudio GFS tracks at 2.8 grams.

lot’s more groove damage occurs when a stylus is not solid in the groove (miss-tracking) with light tracking like a VDh Colibri at 1.35 grams VTF, than when it’s solid at 3.5 grams.

keep the alignment and anti-skate right and keep the records clean. that’s most important.

If anyone needs a TT with 2 or 3 arms, it's you!

Mike,
You make good points and I agree that mistracking is worse than heavy tracking, but I can't get comfortable with 3.5 grams either.  Is your experience at that tracking force with a spherical stylus?
Bill

Bill,

all the Miyajima's use a conical diamond stylus. so that experience is with the conical shape at those tracking forces.

Mike