Glanz moving magnet cartridges

Dear Lewm: Integrated headshell cartridge designs were a trend a fashion on those old times. As I said the way of thinking on that subject was how 40 years ago manufacturers thinked.

What Nandric pointed out has no sense: how any one could think that magnets can't go in an stand alone design??, IMHO Nandric can't assume that he assumed but with out foundation and about the SPU/EMT that's only to fans ( mainly in Asia. ) of that kind of sound.

Anyway, I made my points and till here I can't see/read any argument that was/is strong enough to convince the common sense and experiences about.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Raul, What I assumed reg. the FR-7 is that I quoted
J. Carr correctly . He called the FR-7 'big,heavy monster'
(FR 7 thread; 05-26-09).It is also a fact that FR-7 was never produced as stand alone cart. Why not? With your own 'foundations' you should be able to answer the question. You also dismissed Ortofon SPU and EMT with a very strange 'foundation' : for some silly Japanese? Both carts are still produced so obviously there is demand for them. I don't believe that those who buy them care very much for your arguments. BTW from the same FR-7 thread I 'deduced' that you are pretty fond of this integrated cart? My own objection is that they are impractical . That is to say impractical for me. Everyone else is free to think what he likes.

Regards,

Hi Nandric,

"You also dismissed Ortofon SPU and EMT with a very strange 'foundation' : for some silly Japanese?"

I am not wholly surprised. Cartridge/people? An easy digression!

As always...

Raul,

Everyone is free to read and judge your comments and make their own decisions: hopefully in the light of a few facts:

1. You have simply NEVER heard the cartridges about which you have repeatedly announced a keen dislike!? [That underpins your desperate scratching around to find things/a logic that - "apparently" - support your hatred.]

2. You have now contradicted every tenet on which you argued the case for antique MM/MI cartridges and you have done so in a manner that would have been more fitting of the received wisdom that often stated that MC's were more modern and therefore better?

Is this mere dishonesty? Or is it an ego related failing? I am not certain. It does make we wonder about your constant exclamations that "I have said all I have on Glanz" (assumedly here meaning, 'nothing').

No, your willingness to spit out negative comments about a cartridge that you feel no shame in admitting that you have never heard seems to suggest more hidden motives and recalls the recently mentioned bard. As the infamous Iago concludes his part in the drama that he has helped to unfold:

"Iago: 'Demand me nothing. What you know, you know. From this time forth I never will speak word."

And yet, as though some monarch-like ghost wondering the battlements of his demise, here you stand providing what seems to me to be the same blind criticism.

I'm only saying

As always...

Dear Dgob, Because your thread , as I already mentioned,
become 'who knows better' our beloved Henry decided to
move your thread to the right place: the MM thread.
I love the guy and will follow. As you know my beloved Frege was obsessiv about 'foundations' so I, as a good student, will try to question some of Rauls 'foundations'. He, it seems, is also very fond of 'foundations' but thinks that his are the only 'right one'. This of course is a very strong indication that he 'knows better' and that is and was my point. No more 'shine' alas for your Glanz as separate thread.

Regards,