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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear friend: that MC2000 atracted everything around 0.1mm ( low iron metal. ), so what you said is no surprise for me, I ruined my first MC2000 because of that. I remember that I owned and still own ( the rigth one. ) 3-4 different Shure tracking for ce metal gauge and many of them worked just...
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear friend: less coil wire windings means too what you stated: lower cartridge moving system mass that helps a lot for the cartridge improves is tracking levels and this means lower possibilities to lost recorded information in those grooves and this means better quality level performance. A...
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    Best phono stage?

    Dear friends: only for you can read a little precaution with the addiction that have the tube unit owners: rotating/rolling tubes. Please read inside the post about before the SS links. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS.
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear friend: rigth, that's the correct interpretation to my bad englisk. Thank's for that. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS.
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear friend: I'm the first admirer of Dr. AJ vandenHul. I already posted here I owned and own several of his cartridges. So your statement is not exactly the way you are thinking of my posts. Sorry, that I gave you that impression that's way far away from there. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC...
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    Best phono stage?

    Dear friend: it's not a bait but a fact and I'm trying to help nothing more than that. I don't know what other gentleman can explain about to support a high price cartridge with 0.75mv at output level. For me there is no justificable explanation if we are talking to achieve ( for that price. )...
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    Best phono stage?

    Dear friends: in my post #483 in this thread is/was totally proved two years ago what this gentleman over and over post as a fact and that because it was proved he was totally wrong that information is not only false as Wyn said it but a lie. I don't go inside any lie it does not matters from...
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    Best phono stage?

    Dear friend: that 0.75mv cartridge output means " mediocre/average " quality level performance no matters what. I already posted in other threads that the best LOMC cartridges are the ones with lower output levels because the signal " sees " less coild wire that inside the cartridge is extremely...
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    Thorens & Goldmund Reference Turntables - European Expressions of the Art of Beyond

    Dear friend: Weird that you said that and I will explain why " weird ". Btw, I did not knew that you read Agon, I just be aware from you in the last 2-3 weeks that I started to post in this forum. Ok, years ago you posted " Vintage horn designs is where my heart is at, haven't heard anything...
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    Thorens & Goldmund Reference Turntables - European Expressions of the Art of Beyond

    Hi: I love your Yamaha and I can see you own a SimsAudio phono stage, good and congratulations by your choices. Regrads and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R.
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friend and friends: your post gave me the opportunity to say why I love audio forums, any. An audio forum is a " win to win " proposal for all of us where exist only winners never been/be there any single looser, no one is deafeated because is not a contest. Inherently to all human beens...
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    Thorens & Goldmund Reference Turntables - European Expressions of the Art of Beyond

    Dear friend: not exactly, I'm always willing to learn this is my attitude always but how can I learn with out facts behind some audio subjects? I can learn by first hand experiences or from other gentlemans with facts, that's all. Several human beens just are not willing to learn, so they are "...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friend: again subjectivity that always is usele because behind it all gentlemans are rigth, no one can argue against subjectivity if it does not comes with facts/common sense proofs/measurements. Btw, everything can be measured that we don't know how to measure everything and how and...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friend: Only if you are an expert in " pudin " flavors. Subjectivity is what impedes that each one of us and the high end can growing up but the AHEE is extremely happy with the kind of posts similar to yours. I really don't care to much what " pudin " you like, my advice to you is that...
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    Thorens & Goldmund Reference Turntables - European Expressions of the Art of Beyond

    Dear friend: I listened in very well know systems and at least one in my system and owned Technics and MS, I knew and know about not for brochures. I never heard the Thorens for example. In the other side I'm not questioning your first hand experiences about but not so deep as you I have too...
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    Thorens & Goldmund Reference Turntables - European Expressions of the Art of Beyond

    Dear friend: a heavy/huge DD turntable disqualification and I respect that opinion even that I can't agree with: Look in those old times Japanese TT designs was full of BD TTs that were on sale by price for one kg. and that was how the final sale price came. The first heavy weigth ( with no...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friend: this is the first time and the last that I will give you a conditonated answer before you give an answer to the questions posted by me because it's not me whom has to prove what you posted but it's you who should/must do/prove it with out conditioning other gentlemans to give...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Welcomed all the time.
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friends ( bazelio too ): time to learn for me. Please let me know the facts behind that statement and I mean facts not that " sounds better " or " I like it to much " and those kind of subjective opinions but facts/objective one. Could you share those facts? thank's in advance and...
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    Analog Magik

    Dear friend: that statement is incredible. My native language is spanish and my english is to bad and I make several mistakes about. I already fixed because the word I wanted to post was USED but your post is incredible too not only because you had no patience with me about but because the main...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friend: through the next links we can read that LOMC cartridges are almost immune to load impedance changes: http://www.mh-audio.nl/Calculators/StepUpTransformer.html https://www.theanalogdept.com/sut.htm http://www.rothwellaudioproducts.co.uk/html/mc_step-up_transformers_explai.html...
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    Analog Magik

    Dear friend: this is what I posted about, please read carefully: "" In those original Löfgren alignment equations and calculation exist 3 input parameters ( it needs nothing else. ): - tonearm effective length -most inner groove distance -most outer groove distance the equations/calculations...
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    To SUT or not to SUT?

    Dear friend: You are rigth but the question of your thread states: SUT or not SUT. Other than the electrical match/mistmatch issues with SUTs for me the main subject is the overall quality of the carrtridge signal amplified and this depends only of the rigth and precise design of the active...
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Subjective matters?, that's something that I just posted yesterday in the best phono stage thread: that subjectivite is not important because with subjectivity no one has reason but the one that posted his opinion. Historically AHEE teached us exactly your way of thinking and I can see you are...
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear fgriend: I'm " losting " here and I can write an hypothetical/unreal example and please let me know your opinion on it: " some one tells me at noon with the sun shining and in a very hot/warm day that it is not noon but 3 hours before mid nigth " well my response to that gentleman could...
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    Best phono stage?

    Dear friend: the title of your thread is " vital " for the LPs lovers. I don't know what could be changed in the gentlemans opinions that posted by 2014 to today 2020. I tryed to read almost all posts and I can't find out any post that could answer the thread title. Almost all the posts do not...
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear friend: that statement is not true and I don't know your reasons behinds it because was the OP whom brougth here when he asked me: " How is that tonearm design of yours coming along? " Something is weird down here because seems to me that always I have the " culprit " of everything and...
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    Best phono stage?

    Dear friend: that gentleman way before: 2018, posted similar statements in Agon and certainly did not have any measurements or true facts that proved those statements. This one of his statements in this page: " 2) the loading causes the cartridge cantilever to be harder to move (stiffer). This...
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    Dear friend: your post obligated me to return to give you an answer. Please let me explain why about the tonearm paste info: the OP asked me: "" I also remember you telling me that you thought the SME V-12 is a completely different arm than the SME V. Do you still think that? So I gave my...
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    van den Hul Colibri Grand Cru

    CONTINUE: Tracing error: The next relevant subject is the tracing error and distortion related to it. With a properly setup cartridge in a 9 inch arm, using the traditional alignments, the maximum angular error and associated distortion are very small - typically under 1,5° and 1% distortion...

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