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| Grado Epoch 3 Preparing for the two tonearm pods that will shortly arrive. Took the Grado off the M10 arm on table #2, and replaced it with the Ortofon Kontrapunkt C. The latter is still better. Just lovely. Grado Statement 3 has become one of my backups. After... | |
| Mono Cartridge Question Hmm. There must be life at londondecca,com. The 'Service' button now opens a web message form rather than an e-mail link to service@londondecca.com. So I filled it in. Also asked the old UK distributor at Presence Audio if he knows what's going on. | |
| Mono Cartridge Question Correct. | |
| Mono Cartridge Question Well Peter said I'm crazy. Also a few things about Deccas in general "that I wouldn't say out loud in public." He's not a fan. All I can do at this point is to hope that londondecca.com eventually get back to me. | |
| Mono Cartridge Question Peter replied and I'm waiting for him to call for a discussion. I may be getting somewhere! Chris | |
| Mono Cartridge Question No reply from the new owners of the London Decca name and business. Also enquired of Steve Leung (doesn't think it can be done) and Peter Ledermann (no reply yet). | |
| Mono Cartridge Question Given my love of Decca cartridges, and a little knowledge of the way their coils are arranged around the armature, it seems to me it would be relatively simple to re-wire one so that only the coil responsible for lateral movement gets fed into bot... | |
| Mono Cartridge Question Yes, I read the Ortofon page before. I was confused by this remark on the Cadenza MC Mono (one of the "True Mono" cartridges): The coils are made from 6NX (99.9999 %) pure silver wire. An improved winding process on the armature allows a better ... | |
| Best Alignment Protractor? I have used the simple plastic protractors that SME provides with the Series V and M10 arms, and a Dr Feickert (where I believe the Baerwald configuration is about the same as the SME set up). I can't really tell any difference on listening though. | |
| Mono Cartridge Question This is good information. It's beginning to look like the question is whether a single coil (assuming that is how the Miyajima Zero works) is so much better than the 'neutered' stereo type like an AT33-Mono. The former is about six times more expe... | |
| Mono Cartridge Question I may be in error here, but my understanding is that mono cartridges on mono records tend to reproduce far less surface noise. If this is because surface noise results from vertical movements of the stylus, it makes sense as the vertical movements... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 OK, chaps, I value honesty above pride. I may have been wrong. This evening I played two albums I regard very highly, and thus usually play on the table with the London Reference. Both are Fairport Convention original issues, 'What We Did On Our S... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 No problem, my friend! I have confidence in what I hear and what I enjoy. My wife, an excellent classical guitarist who laughs benevolently at my appalling attempts to sing, has no issues with the hi-fi. The fact one can listen to the Reference on... | |
| Grado Epoch 3 My Quads are the ESL2905 models, so they do have two extra bass panels, but even so, it isn't their strong point. I doubt my relatively new SME tonearm has worn bearings. The problem is more likely in my one remaining ear (lost my left and half t... | |
| System that sounds so real it is easy to mistaken it is not live @lewm Back when it was a tiny paperback sized magazine? Of course. You have awoken a strange memory. One Saturday I drove to Halifax, NS, to pick up a $2k set of Monster speaker cables (still have them, half as thick as my wrist and sound no bette... |