Good point, Rooney. The Technics tonearm is medium mass and probably would mate ok with all but very high or very low compliance cartridges. In the latter case one could use a heavy aftermarket headshell to compensate for v low compliance. For example I use an Ortofon LH9000 headshell with my low compliance Koetsu. The LH9000 weighs 18g.
Which Cartrudge For My Upcoming Technics 1200 GR 2 Turnable - Looking at Ortofon 2m Black
Note: Sorry about the misspelled Cartridge in title. Wish I could update that.
I have a Luxman 595 Class A amplifier with Focal N1 speakers. Depending on the recording, it can be on the bright side. I own about 20 records. 80% of them are electronic mixes from the 90s. The rest are dinosaur jr, mazzy star, and so on.
I have found memories of playing my grandfathers fisher turntable (with Mitsubushi stereo system) which looked similar to the Technics 1200GR2, so that is the turntable I am going to get. I also have found memories of going to the record store in the 90s (sound warehouse) and they had a Bose 901 VI system (I think... they were very large hung from the cieling) with a turtable that sounded so good.
The sound I am looking for is *not a audiophile high resolving sound. Instead, I am looking for a energetic sound with power. I do want good audio quality though.
What I am looking at is the Ortofon 2m Black LVB 250 or the 2m black. I never hear them in person. What is everyones thoughts?
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OP has made an excellent choice just to clarify, I think you made a typo when you typed LMN60xSL I think you meant VMN60xSL https://www.audio-technica.com/en-us/cartridges/line-series/vmx-series SL is their premiere stylus shape, Special Line Contact, the most surface contact area. I’ve never seen or heard one, they talk about it, and in their chart, they indicate it has the longest life of their shapes (a result of the increased contact area). |
Yes, aluminum can be VERY Good. My response in another thread "I have had many Aluminum cantilevers that have sounded quite nice. The difference, to me, is the ability to successfully trace very high frequencies without distortion (age 77, I cannot even hear them), and what makes the most to me, tighter lows, and tighter imaging, but Inferior is too strong a word for aluminum IMO" |
@elliottbnewcombjr I have owned Hana EL and Hana ML with aluminum cantilever. Neither had any audible distortion, or at least within the frequency range I can hear. Not sure what you meant by this…
One of us either overthinking everything or oversimplifying things…
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Bass, Imaging For me, it’s about bass and imaging. Sapphire Tube; Boron; Beryllium Tube ...I believe I hear slightly more accurate bass, tighter, bass reverb or decay, and tighter imaging all instruments, but also involving the overtones of bass that do become directional. Highs the manufacturers talk about tracking high frequencies, so I mentioned it, but as I said, age 77, I can’t even hear them. Sometimes they are talking about staying in the groove of torture tests, that was Shure’s claim to fame for the V15VxMR tracking at 1.0 gm. with the .0005 inch thick MicroWall Beryllium. "The Shure V15VxMR features a proprietary Microwall/Be™ cantilever, an ultra-thin-walled hollow beryllium tube (0.0005-inch wall thickness, 18-mil diameter) that achieves the highest stiffness-to-mass ratio (6.25:1) of any stylus cantilever ever made. This unique geometry, combined with a MASAR-polished Micro-Ridge diamond tip, provides ultra-low effective mass and exceptional high-frequency trackability at a recommended tracking force of 1 gram." Is it subtly better? Worth the extra cost? I encourage others to pay attention to the trend of many makers, what they say, the resultant specs, and, after spending a heck of a lot of money on the rest of my vinyl system, I'm gonna pay the difference for Boron, or, save money by risking used Vintage I've never heard anyone criticize Boron. |
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