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| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity The LP-S arrived today, and is now sitting at the end of a Series IV (which balanced it with about a centimeter of weight adjustment to spare). It's playing its first record for me, the Opus 3 Test Record 1. Going back and forth between tracks pla... | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Is the tonearm base attached to the slate? Or does it rest upon it but not bolted down? I'd call it a pod if it isn't bolted down, but I mean no disrespect by that term. I remain impressed by your commitment to testing rather than theorising. | |
| Discuss The Viv Lab Rigid Arm Only 2lb? Acoustand tonearm pods are 5kg/11lb each. Even that isn't enough for some commenters! :) Seriously though, you have put to the test what I mentioned a few pages back: the advantage of zero skating force might outweigh the tracking error... | |
| Do you think that Nagaoka M-500 will be a significant upgrade from Goldring 1042 ? First principles apply: upgrade the 'rate-limiting' device. If you are sure your speakers are limiting your cartridge, then there is no point in upgrading the cartridge. Otherwise, no one can prove anything to you on a forum, we can only report o... | |
| Do you think that Nagaoka M-500 will be a significant upgrade from Goldring 1042 ? I’m still sorting out the last two places on my six tonearms, for which there are three contenders: SS Sussurro MkII ES, Grado Statement 3, and the MP-500. There will be, I think, a minimum of two rounds (A vs. B, then the winner vs, C. If the win... | |
| Do you think that Nagaoka M-500 will be a significant upgrade from Goldring 1042 ? I'd say the MP-500 is a bargain for the ~$1k it costs (and a bigger bargain still if you buy direct from Japan). You can spend more, but there are diminishing returns. I've written here before about why I bought one and what I compared it with. In... | |
| Cartridge suggestions for my rig I confess I initially was underwhelmed with the Soundsmith Sussurro MkII ES, but I have to eat my words. Since I last tried it I have gone back to my old phono stage (a Quad 24p) and I have mounted it on a better tonearm (SME IV) and now it gives ... | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity Looks like I have an LP-S on the way. | |
| Curious Why Benz Micro Slid Into Obscurity I have enjoyed a Ruby 3, and now have a line on a half-price 30-hour LP-s. It will cost me, all the same, about ten times the price of a re-tip on the Ruby 3. How shall I proceed? | |
| Looking for a Warmer Sounding Phono Cartridge If you want warm, and enjoy Koetsu already, I assume you are looking for an alternative to Koetsu, rather than asking us to say "More Koetsu!" I guess Benz Micro are renowned as warm MC cartridges. I'm biased towards MI cartridges, as their livel... | |
| A Discussion About What Level Of Analog To Stop At @neonknight I like a BM Ruby? That is news to me. My apologies: it was @fleschler who likes his Ruby 3. | |
| A Discussion About What Level Of Analog To Stop At Curious, Raul. I went from the BM Ruby 3 that the OP likes, to an Ortofon Kontrapunkt C. At first I thought it was "scratchy" so detailed was the top end, but after a while I came to like it, and still do. All that was before I discovered the magi... | |
| A Discussion About What Level Of Analog To Stop At Seems we are going off-topic again! I used to subscribe to Gramophone, both for advice about recordings to buy, and for equipment reviews. In those days (1980's > early 1990's) it was a given that a serious UK listener owned a pair of Quad ESL6... | |
| A Discussion About What Level Of Analog To Stop At Sorry, but that is not true. ESLs will move their diaphragms in an attempt to make bass and if you take a very near field measurement they would seem to be very accurate... until you move away from the speaker. Because they are dipoles there are ... | |
| New phono stage from SOTA I am aware of rumours that we may be dreadfully susceptible to subsonic vibrations, but have not yet heard of military research into ultrasonic warfare (and I assume that the military would be the ones to wish to exploit this if it were possible).... |