Glanz moving magnet cartridges

Hi Raul,

I'm impressed by your close reading and support for sharing evolving impressions among the interested. I know you also share my experience of changing perspective with the ongoing exploration of other cartridges and bits of hifi. I think this is part of what is reflected within this thread and hope (should there be another long break between my posts) that this will not prove a problem for other interested readers.

I'll definitely contact you off site in spring/summer regarding our recent Essential discussions.

All the best in the meantime

Sorry Raul,

Forgot to mention that I genuinely did not see anything wrong with Nandric's inquiry. He was obviously interested enough to both read and comment on my reflections and so (happy as I am with your support) I don't think there is really any problem here. And as you say, we are all of course free to share our experiences and/or to choose to ignore those of others.

As always...

Hi All,

You might recall my noting that: "I have 'now' discovered that the G7 line contact stylus adds something to the G5 cartridge..."

This was because I was not satisfied with the performance of my G7 - having given it around 20 hours of testing. Hence, its M-7 stylus has been playing on my G5 for the past few months. It must have passed the 100 hours mark by now.

Well, I decided to try the G7 with its now run-in M-7 stylus reinstored on Sunday. WOW: there seems to be real grounds for a major reassessment!! However, what is apparent after only a few hours of playing this is that the G7 is an immense beast with dynamic, tonal and detail retrieval abilities that can both surprise and delight.

My task is now to assess it in light of the performance of my Technics 100 Mk4 and Glanz G5. I will feedback once any certainties are secured. This could form a review of the top of the range Glanz.

Obviously, my apologies to any reader who might take offence from what I share here.

As always...

Hi All,

I have been discussing all things hifi with an Asian friend who knows more about the Audiocraft line than any else that I know. This led to a major finding of some significance.

Some will recall that I had a rather heated response to the suggestion that I was enjoying distortions on my Glanz (incidentally, I wonder if the mechanical properties and task that they are asked to do does not mean that 'all' cartridges show some distortion). This was because I do play Cello and often use my own play to test aspects of my analogue.

Anyway, the long and short of the matter is that I have recently found that the overhang for the AC3300 tonearm that I use is 13mm. I had concerns because it did not match the standardised 15mm overhang used in my Fiekert professional protractor. On using Audiocrafts own template (slightly more tricky to set up), I found that the overhang of my favoured medium mass wand was exact.

This explains why I have constantly found near perfection in listening to the G5 and G7 cartridges on that arm. I am currently listening to the G7 as my favoured cartridge and will report more after I have assessed and confirmed every aspect.

If any one else manages to get hold of a G series Glanz, I hope you use their provided template in the first place and find the pleasure that I seek to spread through this thread and my complete admiration.

As alway...

Dear Dgob, You should know that thinking (Urteilskraft by your beloved Kant) is mostly our wrestling with pro and contra arguments about some premise(s). This however may be called an 'invardly discussion'. It is not, uh, usual , to do such thinking in public. Ie stating questions in public and answering the same questions by yourself. The usual 'procedure' (proscripted or prescripted) is to put forward the result of the 'wrestling' or the conclusion(s) and then see what the OTHER have to say about that. I don't think that Raul was wrong with his interpretation of what I intended to say in the mentioned post.

Regards,