fsonic, I hope your Lyra is "singing", not "signing". Music is no fun when translated into hand gestures. (A little time out for humor here.)
Mijostyn, Can you provide a URL to the gauge that looks just like the Ortofon DS3, only cheaper? I bought the Ortofon only because I was in Tokyo, and there it was on shelf, for sale at a cost much less than the US price or even mail order prices. I had to have some trophy to show for my trip that would fit in my luggage. So I bought the DS3 and a few carbon fiber headshells, also much cheaper there than here. Normally, I would not have paid so much as our local DS3 prices, for a stylus force gauge. On the other hand, it's been superb in use. I also own three Shure SFGs (lord knows how that happened) and one of the more conventional Chinese made digital gauges that I used for a while before discovering that with certain LOMCs that contain very powerful magnet structures, the cartridge could be attracted to the weigh pan. Almost killed my Ortofon MC2000 that way. But only the MC2000 seemed to cause the problem of all my cartridges. That is something that everyone should be aware of in selecting a digital SFG; the weigh pan must not be ferrous. Since this was one of the more expensive of the Chinese types (see URL below; there are many versions that look just like this one), I wonder whether they all potentially will have this issue, but again, only with very powerful magnet structures in the cartridge, which means very LOMCs. The Ortofon DS3, incidentally, has no such problem.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-LCD-Turntable-Cartridge-Stylus-Tracking-Force-Scale-Gauge-0-01g-Accurate/393123171892?hash=item5b87f78e34:g:zLwAAOSwULZgHhZv
Mijostyn, Can you provide a URL to the gauge that looks just like the Ortofon DS3, only cheaper? I bought the Ortofon only because I was in Tokyo, and there it was on shelf, for sale at a cost much less than the US price or even mail order prices. I had to have some trophy to show for my trip that would fit in my luggage. So I bought the DS3 and a few carbon fiber headshells, also much cheaper there than here. Normally, I would not have paid so much as our local DS3 prices, for a stylus force gauge. On the other hand, it's been superb in use. I also own three Shure SFGs (lord knows how that happened) and one of the more conventional Chinese made digital gauges that I used for a while before discovering that with certain LOMCs that contain very powerful magnet structures, the cartridge could be attracted to the weigh pan. Almost killed my Ortofon MC2000 that way. But only the MC2000 seemed to cause the problem of all my cartridges. That is something that everyone should be aware of in selecting a digital SFG; the weigh pan must not be ferrous. Since this was one of the more expensive of the Chinese types (see URL below; there are many versions that look just like this one), I wonder whether they all potentially will have this issue, but again, only with very powerful magnet structures in the cartridge, which means very LOMCs. The Ortofon DS3, incidentally, has no such problem.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-LCD-Turntable-Cartridge-Stylus-Tracking-Force-Scale-Gauge-0-01g-Accurate/393123171892?hash=item5b87f78e34:g:zLwAAOSwULZgHhZv