Replicant 100 stylus

I am a big fan of Ortofon's Replicant 100 stylus.  My Cadenza Bronze has that stylus and upon first hearing it I was pleased with its SQ but also pleasantly surprised with how much quieter older LPs sounded.

Bronze in any form is an excellent cartridge 

@kingharold

The Cadenza Bronze’s predecessor, Kontrapunkt "c", was also quite excellent. I’ve had both (still have a Bronze). The Kontra used a Fritz Gyger FG80 stylus. Supposedly the FG stylus was discontinued and they switched to Replicant for the line refresh. Someone from Ortofon (Louis?) mentioned that they thought the Replicant did splendidly well on its tapered aluminum cantilever.

My memory is that the Kontra "c" w/ FG80 was a bit warmer and more "fun" sounding, with a bit more bass bloom. The Cadenza Bronze w/ Replicant is a bit cleaner, neutral and more detailed - but still with a touch of warmth from that particular cantilever and motor. But yes, the Replicant also seemed better at rejecting surface noise. I think the stylus is the only major change of note between these 2 models (well, also the plastic inner body on Kontra vs. aluminum on Cadenza), so it’s a rare opportunity to compare just styli. I preferred the Kontra c and Bronze over the higher end Jubilee and Windfeld MC, for their warmer sounding motor & cantilever configuration. Honestly wish I’d kept the Kontra around, though :(

The Cadenza Bronze or Kontra c with a Sonic Frontiers Phono 1 was a badass combination for the money.

''From a logical point of view'' ( Quine) names lack ''predicative function''

that is why we need predicates which ''say something'' about , say,

bearer of the name. So names are supposed to only refer to ,say,

objects (old expression) or entities (new expression for objects). But

as we have just ''seen'' the different names for the (same?) stylus

are more confusing than clear. So we have not easy task to first

''discover'' if  Replicant = Paratrace= Decca or like by Wien also

Vienna , Wenen (Dutch) and Bec (Serbo-Croatian) are different 

names with the same reference. The logical statement ''whatever is

true about Wien must be true about Vienna , Wenen, etc. because

they all refer to the same city in Austria. But what about those who

have no idea that, say, Wenen and Bec refer to Wien in Austria?

@mulveling so good to hear your experienced input - always valuable.. Have you heard the new Black - Beethoven anniversary model ?

My best to you on the music journey

Jim