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Post Subject: Not Frankenstein's Monster, After AllPosted by Paul S on: 12/14/2021
Yesterday I was more-or-less randomly reading Stereophile, skimming, in case something interesting to me appears, and Mr. Fremer in his Ortofon Verismo cartridge report told that top Ortofon cartridges use "6 nines" copper wire that has been gold plated for their coils. Well, this is the first time in over 50 years I ever heard of the gold plating! But who am I? And it certainly makes sense of my own recent conundrom, when Steve Leong told me the refurbished/replaced coils from Ortofon DK were gold, while Ortofon always spec'd copper. Like I said, any differences in the sound of the repaired cartridge from Steve were few, and they were minimal; also they were pretty much swamped by the phono stage cap change.
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