Highest detail cartridges

Dear chakster, I consider you as the fastest learning member in

our forum. In Raul's terminology you must have very high 'learning

curve''. I am member since 2007 and participated in MM thread

since. But I have never heard about Pioneer PC 1000, mk 1,

not to mention mk 2. Lucky me I do recognise all other carts

you mentioned otherwise I would belong to the ''category''

of ''ignorant''. Will you be so kind to ''explain'' this choice ?

Welcome back JCarr. Our fear was that you left us.

We need a kind of ''super authority'' in this conundrum about

the question ''why do carts sound different?''  Considering the

fact that technical issues are the same or similar the ''only''

other possibility is ''the art of the designer''. He must or should

voice or ''tune'' his own carts and this imply a.a. musicality.

So those names like Ikeda, Takeda, Lukatschek, Van den Hul,

Allaerts and J.Carr are not coincidental . However by ''explanation''

we are used to think in technical terms so  there are conjectures

about stylus shape, cantilever material, moving mass, etc., etc.

So we move from the conundrum to ''parts- wholes'' distinction

with as many ''explanations'' as are the participants in the

discussion.

Hi downunder, I can confirm your opinion about Denon DL-S1.

This cart is designed for the earlier produced , excelent AU-S1

SUT. No need for an expensive phono-pre and, in my opinion,

as a combo an giant killer. Anyway ''unbeatable'' for the price.

I need, alas, some ''theory'' to explain what I mean. There is

this ''truth by conditions'' theory ascribed to Tarski. The ''model'' is

simple:

1. For all x Fx & Gx

2. For some x Fx&Gx

The first sentence is not true if there is just one object which does

not satisfy conditions F and G.

The second sentence is true if there is at least one object which

satisfy both F and G  conditions.

Popper used this ''model'' by his ''Conjectures and Refutations''.

The statement ''all swans are white'' is refuted with one black

swan. For this purpose he brought one black swan from Australia

to England by some Philosophical  gathering and  demonstrated

his black swan to perplexed English colleague. The most thought

that he simply painted one white swan in black.

Well this is my introduction with my intention to refute chakster

theory about correlation between moving mass and details.

Many of us are familiar with those EMT cartridges. What is

curious by them is the output. We are used to low output

carts with probable assumption that they need less wire for

their coils. However this cart produces 0,9 mV output which

is like our ''black swan''. To put this otherwise this is an

contra example which according to our first ''model'' make

the whole theory not true (grin).

Well EMT also produced an ''real LOMC'' , the LZI. According to

Thuchan who recommended this cart to me, this ''model'' is

made for Japan. EMT still produces carts on order. So, probably,

the Japanese importer ordered this LZI .

In bimasta's  ''vocabulary'' EMT produced an ''black swan'' among

all other white  kinds.

But I was more impressed by Nakamichi MC-1000 which is produced

by Nakamichi after two years of research.  Anyway this  is the

story of Nakamichi.  They made an striking TT and wanted suitable

cart with it. I have no idea if they also produced the right tonearm

as (project) completion?