You guys never disappoint.....🤗
Even Princi agrees with you 🐶
I would never have imagined when I began this Thread nearly three years ago.....that subtleties (like the effects of different headshells) could be heard over the YouTube platform 🤔
Like Edgewear....I have read nothing but disdain for the FR-3 headshell over the last 20 years or so.
Even some of my most trusted mentors share this view.....
Yet for the last 15 years, that's NOT what I have heard.
Without exception...the FR-3 headshell outperforms any other headshell on the heavy FR tonearms like the FR-64s/FR-66s in my System.
About a year ago, I tried it on different tonearms like the SAEC WE-8000/ST and DV-507Mk II and was amazed at the improvements over other headshells.
Unlike Edgewear.....the Yamamoto HS-4 Carbon Fibre headshell has easily defeated all other contenders for 'Headshell of Choice' in my tonearms (it ain't Chopped Liver) 🤪
So the comparison you are hearing above.....is between the No.1 and No. 2 headshells I have experienced (and I have heard literally hundreds of combinations and permutations) between dozens of different brands and materials.
I began this Thread initially to demonstrate the 'fine' differences between expensive LOMC Cartridges and low-cost vintage MMs.
I hoped to save inexperienced listeners from thinking they had to spend multiple thousands of dollars to hear the 'Holy Grail of Sound' in their analogue Systems.
If the differences they could hear on my comparisons were insignificant to them (as they mostly are to me).....it may help them make a decision that saves them money?
Strangely enough Frogman......the Signets are among my favourite MM cartridges 🤩
And were the ones that first introduced me to the beauties of of the Beryllium cantilever....
But let's put that divergence down to 'taste' or 'The Vibe' as we say Downunder....🙃
Even Princi agrees with you 🐶
I would never have imagined when I began this Thread nearly three years ago.....that subtleties (like the effects of different headshells) could be heard over the YouTube platform 🤔
Like Edgewear....I have read nothing but disdain for the FR-3 headshell over the last 20 years or so.
Even some of my most trusted mentors share this view.....
Yet for the last 15 years, that's NOT what I have heard.
Without exception...the FR-3 headshell outperforms any other headshell on the heavy FR tonearms like the FR-64s/FR-66s in my System.
About a year ago, I tried it on different tonearms like the SAEC WE-8000/ST and DV-507Mk II and was amazed at the improvements over other headshells.
Unlike Edgewear.....the Yamamoto HS-4 Carbon Fibre headshell has easily defeated all other contenders for 'Headshell of Choice' in my tonearms (it ain't Chopped Liver) 🤪
So the comparison you are hearing above.....is between the No.1 and No. 2 headshells I have experienced (and I have heard literally hundreds of combinations and permutations) between dozens of different brands and materials.
I began this Thread initially to demonstrate the 'fine' differences between expensive LOMC Cartridges and low-cost vintage MMs.
I hoped to save inexperienced listeners from thinking they had to spend multiple thousands of dollars to hear the 'Holy Grail of Sound' in their analogue Systems.
If the differences they could hear on my comparisons were insignificant to them (as they mostly are to me).....it may help them make a decision that saves them money?
Strangely enough Frogman......the Signets are among my favourite MM cartridges 🤩
And were the ones that first introduced me to the beauties of of the Beryllium cantilever....
But let's put that divergence down to 'taste' or 'The Vibe' as we say Downunder....🙃