that Audio Note IQ3 looks interesting. Has anybody heard it?
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Dear @lewm : Look the Stereohedron is not a " big deal " and the Shibata and Shibata like is and has wider contact with the grooves and you can confirm in the link I post here. You can see there that the stereohedron is similar to an elliptic, LAC ( Empire ), fine line or hiperelliptical and Shibata is way better in that regards. P.Lenderman has a misunderstood because the stereohedron is not a shibata like: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/80s/Audio-1981-03.pdf Read the page 23 and you will see the fig. 4 that speaks for it self. If LPGear replacement stylus comes with Shibata then it’s not even a fake but a better stylus than the original one !. If I remember was Audio Technica the first or one of the first to use true Shibata stylus shape. The Ortofon 2M Black comes with Shibata stylus shape. R. |
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And or you are wrong or have a high misunderstood that was designed for CD4 " that's what I posted and where you are wrong. I own the 981MK2 and Pickering too and in no one of the original manual information speaks nothing about CD-4 as in other vintage cartridges coming from AT or Empire and others as Grace, etc. Btw, in the the 4000D3 Empire stated in specific its design for CD-4 using even a better stylus tip " four dimensional miniature tip of only 0.001 mil tracing radius against the 0.003 of Stanton one where the Empire tracks perfectly at as low as 0.25grs. VTF ! ! ! this is really unique not that normal Stanton stylus tip. As I told you " stereohedron " is only a name and nothing special. Even Stanton load impedance specs is 47kohms against the 100kohms spec for Empire, Grace and others. @tzh21y I own this reson and it's really good performer too and yes better than your Pickering: https://www.reson.de/screen/product/reca/language/en R. |
@tzh21y iq3 is same as 1042 but with audio note tweak. supposed to be better. but tip replacement can use 1042.. I haven't tried it. 1042 if buy eBay 400 or less. gyger is mentioned to be a form of line contact by vdh. it look like a claw. so not exactly shibata. it's a pain to setup.. like all hi end stylus. although... spec doesn't look great.. but the stage width, depth. detail. energy seperation, saturation, musicality, bass speed.. is all good.nothing to complain even at 600 usd. the legendary carts subjectively and objectively could be better and more fun to explore |
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