Adios - Till the next time.
Godspeed @pindac
Wish you much enjoyment with the custom components you commissioned. It is a great way to approach high end audio, in my opinion.
I look forward to enjoying your posts again when you return.
What innovative, unconventional cartridge designs can you recommend?
Most cartridges have a stylus and cantilever where the transducer (magnet, iron or coil) sits on the far end of the cantilever. What other designs are there?
I am mindful of two designs which put the business end right on top of the stylus. The first is the moving coil (MC) Audio Technica AT-ART1000 which places two tiny coils, each 0.9-mm diameter, with eight turns of wire directly above the stylus. Australian price is about AUD-7000 and there apparently is a newer model, slightly less exxe. the ART1000X. This has square coils for a bit more output, and threaded mounting holes.
A downside is that stylus replacement involves a factory maintenance program and the Australian website page describing this service does not exist.
Another design is optical, exemplified by DS Audio's range. While these still need a stylus to trace the groove, the signal is produced by reading the intensity of light produced by a Light Emitting Diode (LED) hitting two sensors. Between the LED and the sensors are two 'shades' mounted above the stylus which change the amount of light as the stylus vibrates. These cartridges need a special "photo-stage" to replace the conventional phono-stage which is an additional expense.
Australian prices including photo-stages range from AUD-2,150 for the DS-E1 to the DS Master 3 at approximately AUD-40,800, which is a bit outside my price range! Where is the sweet spot?
What other way-out designs are there?
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I did know he played the tuba, but did not know he played VW's concerto at the Festival Hall The tuba features heavily in his Hoffnung Music Festivals held at the Festival Hall, London. The first concert sold out in a record time of about an hour and a quarter. One of the pieces is a piano concerto in which the conductor and the soloist circle each other, trying to agree on which real concerto they are meant to play. The Concerto Popolare is now a regular part of the repertoire! At the beginning, there was a somewhat sombre announcement from Ernst Bean, the General Manager of the Festival Hall, that
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Dear @richardbrand The main issue in the Mijostyn room/system is that him controls everything through a Digital Processor because he likes that way but in reality and in specific to phono stage that " move " goes against the analog/LP alternative where almost all of us like because is Analog with no digital inside manipulation. I'm not against digital tha's a great MUSIC reproduction alternative but I like to listen my LPs in the 100% analog domain Analog or digital he is always manipulating the recording signal using that digital processor as and " equalizer ", nothing wrong with that because that's what makes and fulfill his targets and MUSIC/sound priorities.
The today Digital whole processors are really great and in the years to comes maybe some of us ( including me ) will be using it but for now and in my case I stay with fully analog alternative when talking on LP reproduction.
Yes, everything changes almost every day and the future is with out doubt those room/system digital fully processors. Good that you are enjoying your DS Audio cartridge. If you made it that kind of inve$tment then could means you own maybe thousands or at least several hundreds of LPs. Rigth?
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