chakster
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| Is a Lyra Kleos good with a current-mode phono preamp? I am using current-mode phono stage from 47 Labs with 5 Ohm cartridge (Fidelity-Research FR-7fz) and it’s great! | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 In my defence it has been increasingly hard to tell the pair of you apart at times though but no excuse, I screwed up badly on that accusation. hahaha, almost every thread on here going crazy after first 5 posts or so | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 @lewm Chakster wrote that Oswald Mills Audio plinth is made of graphite. That is incorrect. They are made of Pennsylvania slate. Slate and graphite are two different things. Wow, so it was my mistake then, mainly because those slate plinth looks... | |
| van den Hul Colibri, Koetsu Rosewood Signature, SoundSmith Sussurro Mk ii After years of focusing on medium to high compliance MM and MI cartridges in various turntables, I’m finally looking to add my first serious MC cartridge. Ortofon MC2000 could be your last LOMC if you have all those Moerch arm tubes, because it i... | |
| van den Hul Colibri, Koetsu Rosewood Signature, SoundSmith Sussurro Mk ii A low compliance cartridge on mid mass tonearms (or on a light mass tonearm) may be "fine" only for those who does not care about theory of resonance frequency described here. It’s easy to measure tonearm/cartridge resonance with Hi-Fi Test LP. 8g... | |
| van den Hul Colibri, Koetsu Rosewood Signature, SoundSmith Sussurro Mk ii MOERCH Effective mass of complete tonearm with arm tube:Light (green): 4gMedium (red): 6gHeavy (yellow): 8gExtra heavy (blue): 14g How can you mount a Koetsu to the arm with 8g effective mass ? Koetsu Rosewood Signature Compliance: 5 at 100Hz (abo... | |
| Ortofon blue Sell both and buy a better cartridge with the most advanced cantilever and stylus profile. Or simply better sounding cartridges, actually those upper M2 line is expensive and you can find better carts for the same budget or even cheaper if you wil... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade - Nagaoka or Goldring Every cartridge is fine until you will compare it to a better cartridge. And if you’re doing it often you know how many times you can upgrade to a better sound. An interesting process. I wish i could cancel the deals on some cartridges, because wh... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 OMA plinth is Pennsylvanian GRAPHITE, not Graniteand now cast iron too | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 finding a really good Fr7f/z will take some hunting. I have a regular fr7 and its nice but not fantastic. I’m not afraid of vintage carts but you cannot ignore that they are old... Regular FR-7 and FR-7fz is day and night difference.I have comper... | |
| Best Tonearm for Thorens TD-124. In Finland ? Wow, that’s something newit's 3,5 hrs from here | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 @chakster which TT do you use? Thanks for all the suggestions and combos. I will start looking for them on hifishark All linked pictures above are my own, so i use all those tonearms. Reed 3p "12 and Schick "12 was on Technics SP-10 mkII as you c... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 I am looking for low compliance high mass tone arm as everyone suggests for the 301. Used Ikeda IT-345 and Fidelity-Research FR64s are the best you can get! They are probably the highest mass tonearms ever (over 30g). FR-64fx with W-250 counterwe... | |
| Best Tonearm and Cartridge for 4K or under for restored Garrard 301 I have Reed 3p "12, Ikeda 345, Fidelity-Research FR-64fx and FR-64s and i can highly recommend any of them for LOMC cartridges. If your budget is $4k for both then look for FR-64fx with B-250 counterweight and FR-7f or FR-7fz cartridges. It’s a ki... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade - Nagaoka or Goldring Those pickerings are very nice. I never see them NOS anymore. My Pickering XSV/4000 cartridge is still sealed, the rest of the samples are opened. Still hunting for them, NOS are very rare indeed |