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    What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using

    You could ask him which $20,000 cartridges he’s heard and in what context. I currently have a Goldring 1042 and a Transfiguration Proteus rebuilt by Ana Mighty Sound with a Gyger S stylus (my choice) so the same profile. The comparison is interesting. My two decks are an Artemis SA-1 and a...
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    Most vinyl-sounding DAC?

    I recently got round to listening to a Denon 103 for the first time and it brought to mind the Rega DACr I used a few years back as a stopgap. We’re obviously not talking top drawer vinyl or digital here but that wasn’t the question. They share a certain point of view that eschews fine detail...
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    What's Your Favorite Irish Whiskey

    Redbreast 21 so far, not Middleton certainly.
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    Can a Technics SL-1200G challenge the state of the art?

    You can take a Lenco idler drive a long way with modifications, I have a PTP at the moment with a solid bamboo plinth, but how far can a Technics go? There’s OMA’s cast iron plinthed SL10 for an example, not heard one myself nor the SL1000. Are the guts of an SO1200 G amenable to replinthing?
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    What turntables do you use? Pictures would be nice as well :-)

    Just finished my PTP Lenco. and sounding very good indeed. I took inspiration for the plinth from my Artemis SA-1 which I had apart last year to get some more oil in the motor bearings. While I was in there I noted that the layer of ebony is only a 1mm strip around the outside but there...
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    The WBF humor and joke thread.

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    What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using

    Talking of Stanley Engineering… I’m using one of their snakewood SPU N series spacers on my Royal at the moment. Comparing the Royal N with Ortofon’s spacer on a Korf headshell to the SPU Century I find the Century gives more of the musical interplay while the Royal has more scale and dynamics...
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    Help to identify arm board and arms it can accommodate

    This is the template for the SME compatible mount for a Korf SF9R if you want to check the hole spacings. SME themselves want to sell their template but the Groovemaster one has the same hole positions.
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    Why are the WBF servers so slow? PLEASE READ FOR FINAL UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT

    I just assumed it was all the adverts they have to load so just the price we pay for the site’s existence.
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    EMT - JSD series Carts

    When you go to their pickup heads (Tondose) rather than the 1/2” mount cartridges EMT offer a range of outputs. “Besides the standard EMT tonearm-connection, we offer the option INT (Ortofon A compatible) and option X (for SME standard). Furthermore, we manufacture 1/2 and 1/4 coil for lower...
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    Mono Cartridges

    A 1956 issue of Klemperer Eroica is sounding nicely full bodied with my SPU Century (Shibata) and the mono button on my preamp.
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    Mono Cartridges

    There is at least one mono record in my collection, though I forget which and haven’t happened on it again, that sounds terrible with the Decca’s spherical stylus and much better with the Replicant 100 on my SPU Royal N using the mono switch. Most mono cuts, even old ones, are preferable on the...
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    Mono Cartridges

    You’d think that the grooves on a modern mono cut would be flat as vertical movement is under control and they don’t have the frying bacon background noise with a stereo pickup that is common from an original mono cutter but my groove jumping Decca suggests otherwise for at least some of them...
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    Mono Cartridges

    I’ve been using a London Decca Maroon mono variant for a while now. Vertical compliance is rather lower than horizontal. Used on old mono cuts it was fine in a Naim Aro but put it on a modern mono disc like the Schnabel Beethoven box sets and it jumps out of the groove. Moving it to my 18g...
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    German Physiks Unicorn: An alternate take on single driver speakers. Did you ever have a chance to audition it? What did you think?

    I’m unlikely to use DSP either. You make it sound similar to a band pass filter with adjustable roll off at the top end. Presumably there is some phase shift too where it rolls off, though since you’re overlapping with the delayed rear radiation from the horn that might be no bad thing. How are...
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