dougdeacon
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| Bad experience with ZYX AIRY 3 Andre,I held off posting so you could get responses, positive or negative, from ZYX users other than me. The concensus is pretty overwhelming, but I wonder why you started this thread?When you asked me about your Airy 3 it had only 10 hours on it.... | |
| Shelter repair There are plenty of nude cartridges out there, including some of the world's best. People even "nudify" cartridges themselves and report improved sound. I'd listen before doing anything. You might like it better (or not).If you decide to re-shield... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Armstrod,What I was trying to say is that NO set of technical measurements, however complete, can identify the best cartridge for your system and your tastes. Specs can help you avoid serious mismatches. That's about all. If you expect any more th... | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? Nsgarch,Great geometry refresher, thanks! And yes, it was a compliment. As we probably all know, cutting engineers allowed a wide range of SRA's when cutting lacquers. If they'd all taken such care it would make accurate playback much simpler. Ton... | |
| How to set SRA after determining true vertical? If all the cutting engineers had been that meticulous, we could almost set and forget! | |
| Ideas for a cartridge for a Breuer 8A tonearm Dgad,IIRC, the newest Breuer (8A) has a reshaped headshell that accommodates more cartridges. I belive those pesky fins are no longer in the way.Doug | |
| Does size really matter? :- David,I only know that all four photos were taken by a professional photographer and that his email said they were at 200x. He sent them to me as a single image specifically so I could appreciate the visual comparison.The Denon, Shelter and ZYX ar... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Armstrod wrote:Maybe I lack imagination, but I'm having a hard time picturing the shape of the Zyx stylus you describe. Any chance you could upload the pictures your friend took of the Zyx and the others? It would be educational for all of us.Sorr... | |
| Does size really matter? :- Are there any other cartridges you know of, affordable or not, that use a stylus as small as the Zyx? The Lyra Olympos (discontinued) stylus was longer but it looked similarly narrow to my naked eye, but I never saw the specs. Current top Lyra's l... | |
| Does size really matter? :- The differences in size are truly astounding, especially if you compare them under magnification. A friend once photographed four styli at 200x and printed them out for me. IIRC it was a Grado (forget the model), a Denon 103, a Shelter 901 and a Z... | |
| Schroder: Model 2 or DPS? Hey...someone just told me that the DPS Schroder arm can only go on a DPS turntable. Is that a fact??? "Someone" has been smokin' the funny stuff again!Any Schroeder arm can go on virtually any table. | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? Dear Doug: +++++ " Probably the most Colibri-like " +++++Do you mean that this one has " spark " over the others ?Dear Raul,If I understand what you mean by "spark", I'd say yes. The silver and (especially) the gold UNIverses lack a bit of necessa... | |
| stylus cleaning Andre,Dry brushing alone is not adequate. Even if your records are perfectly clean, the stylus acquires a thin (molecular) layer of vinyl from each play. If this is not removed regularly it will continue to build up. This can be seen on well-used ... | |
| Shelter and Triplanar matching ? I see where the ZYX Web site cites both silver and copper with the same coil wire diameter (.035mm) and same weight (5.0gm)If both cartridges weigh the same and have the same wire diameter, maybe its not extra mass on the silver's cantilever that ... | |
| MC transformers - what do they sound like? I think that all of us take some learning through this kind of dialogue and I put an example from a person that I respect: this very enthusiastic person always defend the SUT against my opinion about, through the time he grow up ( very fast ) and ... |