Glanz moving magnet cartridges

Hi Nandric,

Thanks for your thoughtful reflections on what I am sure is a more common experience than it might generally appear. I agree.

A case in point might be in comparisons of the famous interpretations/performances of Bach's Partitas by Arthur Grimaux (Philips, L 02.207 L) and that by Nathan Milstein (Deustche Grammophon, 2721 087). In my experience, the latter seems to be favoured by many professional violinists while the former tends to be favoured by hifi buffs. Go figure, as they say!!

Happy listening

Hi Nandric,

Just to clarify a little: I agree with your distinction about perceptions of art and about the extensive complexity of any judgement of art.

However, I think that Baumgarten's work on aesthetics/taste/truth and Kant's critical response to this seems to have left the issue of 'art', 'knowledge' and 'truth' as equally complex and aporetic concerns: probably an insignificant pointer, given the general flow of your views as I read them.

Dear Dgob, that "the issue of 'art','knowledge' and 'truth'
are equally complex and aporetic" does not mean that we should confuse them. To me those aredifferent 'categories'.
But I am an 'Fregean guy' and you are, I assume, an Kantian kind of person. So I must underline that 'the art'
is not about the 'truth' in contradistiction to science.

Regards,

Hi Nandric,

I agree to some extent: although the third Critique might not quite uphold the distinction. Personally, I'm not quite certain where my philosophical leanings should be categorised but I obviously find much of great relevance to our concerns in certain German philosophers.

With kindness in gratitude

Hi All,

Been spending quite some time with my Glanz cartridges and doing some thinking. I recall certain Japanese cartridge makers (Audio Technica etc) have produced high quality models for the Japanese and Foreign market but kept one or two "special" models for the Japanese only market. These have apparently often outperformed the top models offered elsewhere.

Well, Glanz produced their cartidges for the Japanese and European market. However, the literature that I have been able to find suggests that the G5 and G3 models were not exported but kept for the Japenese only market. This would partly explain the distinct performance characteristics that are given on the cartridge database etc for the G5 when compared to the G7 or MFG71L/E.

This makes things a little more complex than an alphabetical serialisation in which the hierachy of these gems would run from G1, G2, G3, G5 to G7 at the top of the sonic food chain. This makes for interesting comparisons between my G5 and G7.

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