Glanz moving magnet cartridges

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,

Hi Nandric,

I'm not really sure that I follow your last post but that seems fine!?

As always...

Sorry Nadric,

It's early here and so I just spotted the linguistic link (shine, glanz).

I would hope that the repeating on the MM/MI thread might bring more Glanz users forward. I'd still like the forms of discussion around set up tips, tonearm matching preferences, vtf, sra etc. I'd also love to think that some former or current users of the Glanz G series would have anecdotal and personal reflections that might help situate these gems in experiiental time and space.

As always...

Dear nandric: I repeat, those integrated headshell designs were a fashion on those old times and in many ways more marketing that a scientific achievment.

Almost all the cartridge manufacturers of this kind of designs were tonearm manufacturers too: Technics, Audio Technica, FR/Ikeda, Yamaha, Sony, ADC, etc, etc.

Wonder where those integrated headshell designs performs the " better "?, you are right!: with its tonearm counterpart designed by the same cartridge manufacturer.

I owned several of those integrated headshell designs on those old times and I remember the USA distributors/sellers how they push to the integrated designs against its stand alone brothers, curios was that normally first appears the stand alone one and suddenly after that the integrated headshell design arrived and some " stupid " people like me goes through the integrated designs too!. At the end we owned two same model cartridges that means profits$$$ for the manufacturers: who cares?????

Japanese manufacturers does not cares about those " high end " tonearms with non removable headshell designs ( the Lewm argument. ) because almost all of them have on sale their own tonearm designs that were the " best " tonearm match. The integrated cartridge designs were on sale mainly in Asia, then Europe and in lesser way in America.

Marketing always has an important " weight " on audio item designs and in many cases with no clear audio quality parameters/factors as its foundation.

Btw, 80% of the sales on Ortofon/EMT integrated cartridge designs goes to Asia where today still exist a " cult " for that kind of sound.

I don't see that you and the other " proponents " of integrated headshell designs have wide experiences with this kind of cartridges.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Dear Raul, this thread is moved to our regular MM thread.
I have no idea why you count me as 'proponent' of the integrated carts? I owned just one, the FR-7, but never used the thing. I am on your side in this dispute but my
reason is not connected with the performance but with the lack of practicality in my case.

Regards,