@theophile unless we are talking Australian rules Football. One person catches it and everyone else tries to maim him.
Notice That There Are Not Many Survivors of the MC from the early 19080's or so?
Every once in awhile I will see an odd Audioquest 404 for sale. But otherwise not too many cartridges from this generation. I have always wondered about whatever happened to the Sumiko SHO cartridges. Were they the predecessor to the Blue Point or the Blackbird? Always wondered how they sounded, never got to hear one.
I wonder if it is the use of the hollow rod cantilevers that caused them to become lost cartridges. I don't think you could retip them, but the best you could do is trade them in for a discount.
The other cartridge I see from time to time are the Shinon, and every once in a great while I will see one come up for sale. Oh an odd Ortofon or two, and that is about all I remember for this era of moving coils ever coming available.
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You might have dropped the ball, so to speak, on that topic. See that is precisely what does not take place in Aussie Rules Football. In baked in the rules of that game is a confirmed ’catch’. Technically termed: A Mark. The Mark has clearly defined rules. Both as to what defines a mark and what follows. Here’s more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_(Australian_rules_football)
One of the fundamental unambiguous indisputable priveleges conferred by the rules on a player who is confirmed(by the umpire’s whistle) to have taken a mark is the following: Upon taking a mark, the umpire will blow the whistle to signify the mark and a player is entitled to an unimpeded kick of the ball. The opposition is required to follow the protocol under threat of penalty if infringed: There is a protected area around the kicker, which is a corridor which extends ten metres either side of the line between the man on the mark and the kicker, five metres behind the kicker, and five metres behind the mark. Opposing players may not enter the protected area unless following their direct opponent within two metres; and player who find themselves within the area need to make best endeavours to leave it. Breaking the rule is also punishable by 50-metre penalty.[11]
Your reference to Aussie Rules is an attempt at humor. I caught that. |
The Shinon Red did have suspension issues in one of the batches we received. That problem always showed up in the first few hours of play. This is why we started thoroughly testing every unit in house before shipping them out. Ensuing batches were perfect and no longer needed to be tested. The boron cantilevers we used could be easily snapped as well but we considered it a good trade off because they sounded so much better than any other material we experimented with. Interestingly we had a sample of a lower output version of The Red that sounded superior but my partner was sure Absolute Sound’s Harry Pearson would prefer the medium output version so that’s the one he took to Sea Cliff to audition. |
One of the best MC of the late 1970's was the Supex SD-900E/Super. |
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