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| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? "Strange creature"? That's me, for sure. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner Provided your cave has an electrical supply and clean water is available in a nearby stream, yes. | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Well, however we do it, we all seem to agree that clean vinyl is better than dirty vinyl! | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I've been inspired to read about Induced Magnet and Variable Reluctance cartridges as variations on the Moving Iron concept as a result of this thread. It always seemed a bit odd to classify a Decca as being the same thing as a Grado or a Soundsmi... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? What I have learnt from this thread is that a MI Cart' can now be acquired for $12K. Setting the Brand of that Cart's other models aside, what is the price jump from another go to MI Cart' to get to the cost referred to above, $6K, $7K, $8k as ... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I have a new Hyperion MR, but I can not really comment on it yet. It is a little brighter than I like and I will be able to EQ it shortly. Then I will listen more carefully and comment. Looking forward to that. I could raid the retirement savi... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. @cleeds You surprise me: the only U/S machine on their site (KD-CLN-LP200T LP Vinyl Record Ultrasonic Cleaner with Dryer) does not specify how it dries. I’d be very interested to read about how a machine looking like this performs vacuum drying: ... | |
| EAR 834P Deluxe with Dynavector 20 HX H output Cart. I don't know how much TdP had to compromise when he was hired by Quad to design the 24p phono stage, or whether the Chinese overlords substituted cheap components for those he chose. I can say that the 24p (designed some years after the 834p) is m... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? @frogman Thank you for the link: I do know that musicologists regard tension and release as something written on the stave. My point was why is they can say that? Why do we all, or nearly all, recognise what the music is doing to us? That must bel... | |
| Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner. Two* answers so far, one against U/S (they do not vacuum dry), and one for. I’ll clarify. Vacuum cleaning machines are generally cheaper, remove most of the muck, and do not cause much static on drying. They are noisier, by far. U/S machines prob... | |
| EAR 834P Deluxe with Dynavector 20 HX H output Cart. And to complicate it, there is the third option of combining the low output cartridge with an external SUT and the MM input of the EAR. It can make a big difference, but there is an element of luck as no one can really tell what a particular SUT s... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? I think stylus profile has more to do with the amount of groove noise than the type of motor at the top of the cantilever (honorable exception: a mono cartridge that is insensitive to vertical motion). | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Surely tension/release is a neurological matter rather then one created by a skilled orchestra, a good venue or a fine cartridge? We talk of joyful music, sad music and so on, but we are simply describing the emotions it engenders in our minds, no... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Sadly, the London Decca Reference cartridge is no longer available. The new owner tells me he hopes to have them back in production, along with a new version by August of this year. Perhaps then there will be no need for a few lone voices in th... | |
| MC-MM-MI CARTRIDGES . DO YOU KNOW WHICH HAS BETTER QUALITY PERFORMANCE? REALLY? Maybe, but we might be asking ourselves who is being a bully here? |