Thank you for your vigilance, dogberry.
Still looking for a new Moving Coil Cartridge
I noticed that Music Direct has 20% off cartridge sale on select cartridges. I am still using a ZU/Denon DL103 MC cartridge Series 1 with the cartridges tightest tolerances. I purchased it here from “Audiofiel” back in 2010 and have used it sparingly since. I had been using a Dynavector DV20XL cartridge which I bought a couple of years ago but my 6 yo nephew destroyed it (that’s another story) so I am back to the ZU/Denon.
My table is a Technics SL1200G which I truly love. I have been looking at the Hana Low out put MC cartridges. I am interested in the low output “S” series as the $600.00 price is right where I want to be. Now, the million dollar questions: I listen to 95% 60’s, 70’s and 80’s Rock and want whatever cartridge I purchase to make the records sound good without excessive surface noise. Will the Hana S be up to the task? My Mac C2500 tube preamp has cartridge loading from 50 ohms up to 1000 ohms so I should be ok. I just want to be sure this cartridge will be very musical and full bodied sound. I do no want a thin sound. So there you have it, yay or neigh?
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"MC carts have fundamental problem of coil wire' affecting moving part resonance etc. that’s why MC carts typically require higher tracking pressure, which is no good for diamond needle etc." I am not a big fan of low cost MC cartridges, either, but the hypothesis expressed here requires some evidential support. Otherwise, it strikes me as yet another case of connecting a cause with an effect, without any real basis for the connection. This is an all too common practice in our hobby. Not to mention the fact that "higher tracking pressure" is not necessarily a correlate of increased stylus (or LP) wear; you want the VTF to be high enough to prevent mistracking, but not higher, for a given stylus shape. |
If you are now considering forking over for a new Dynavector 20X2, that opens up a whole different price range of cartridges. You should look at the Hana ML (on sale now everywhere for $960), the Ortofon 2M Black LVB as mentioned previously, Clearaudio Maestro V2 Wood, and the Audio Technica AT33Sa or AT-ART7 cartridges. elusive DISC currently has a number of cartridges at discount. |
@knownothing , Thank you very much for the tip on Elusive Disc. I haven't been to that site in years, forgot about them. Not a big fan of the Ortofon 2M Black but the AT cartridges look promising. |
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