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| Comparison of sonic qualities of some tonearms @pindac Your comments not only accord with my experience of the SME V and IV, but they also fit the official story: the Series V came out first, and had selected parts. The Series IV came out later, and had off the line parts that might not quite ... | |
| Lowest priced MC thats better than a Premium MM? Why do people choose a cheap MC over a good MM/MI? I don't think there is a benefit by doing so. In my experience a 1k MM/MI is about the level of a 5k LOMC, and no worry about buying an SUT or a phono stage that copes with LOMC. Is moving coil s... | |
| Best investment; cartridge or line stage? Mmmm. OP wondered about cartridge or (not line but corrected) phono stage. And now he is looking for a new tonearm. Who shall take responsibility if the advice does not work? Maybe you are all correct, but if it were your cash on the line? | |
| Crackle and hiss on some albums A record can never be too clean. | |
| Some cartridge recommendations I have an SUT over $1k in cost, and MC cartridges costing many times more than that. I'd say a Nagaoka MP-500 is the best and cheapest way to get where you want to go. | |
| Turntable Cartridge upgrade question. Whatever you end up doing, I hope it suits you well. I happen to disagree with this: The answer is: pretty much any good brand and quality MC outperforms good quality MM. - as I have some MI cartridges that will give any MC a run for their mon... | |
| Cartridge Change Overhang Difference-Fixed Headshell Perhaps I'm being thick, but if there is a difference in stylus placement once the two cartridges are mounted on your SME arm, don't you deal with that by sliding the arm in its base? The protractor used simply means you end up with the same geome... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner Moonwatcher, to your post of 2/13, please re-read my post about “ultrasonic “ STYLUS cleaners. They are not ultrasonic. They operate at around 500 Hz. Of course, US cleaners for LPs are ultrasonic. That’s all I was saying. @lewm Though just to ... | |
| Any Vertere Acoustics owners out there that could provide feedback on the Super Grove? "Super Grove" - Sir Charles? When I was a student I had him as a patient at UCH after a heart attack. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner No, it's not a problem. | |
| Humminguru record cleaner @vinylshadow The Loricraft usually gets things silent in terms of unwanted noise. The Degritter usually deals with the failures. If there is noise after both it is generally because there is a scratch. It takes about ten minutes to do both machine... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner @vinylshadow I have a PRC-4 Deluxe, and it does most of the work. My Degritter is the icing on the cake, as it were. I use L'Art du Son with it (sometimes AI Enzyme Formula when needed) and use the Degritter now with plain distilled water. That gi... | |
| Brag About Your Vinyl Collection Yes, when I started buying it was £2.50 for an LP, and the same for a bottle of Scotch (though I was not old enough to waste my money on that then). | |
| What happens when the stylus tip wears out on a $12,000 cartridge? @pindac I think you are suggesting MC cartridges might be made with interchangeable stylus/cantilever assemblies? And you would make it simple and perhaps not require a technician? How would you suggest getting around the stumbling block of the co... | |
| Humminguru record cleaner There you go: "the biggest upgrade" is how I put it. It doesn't have to be an ultrasonic machine, and all sorts of ways to skin a cat here. But a perfectly clean record is a joy to hear. |