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In the Thread: I think my Dynavector 10x4 is showing signs of wear.
Post Subject: Ask your son to steal his school’s microscop....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/4/2006
Dmitry,
I have no idea. I always felt that Dynavector 10x4 is some kind of rock-in-roll cartridge and never had it. Still, it $200 cartridge, or way sub $200 in Japan, and it should not be a big deal to exchange it if necessary. The surface noise might be picked from many reasons not only because the ageing. Check out all you setting on your arms and cartridge. This time of the year is very “peculiar” for analog as the temperature outside drops and heating kicks in. It affects average room temperature and humidity and I have see as some of my arms, particularly with liquid damping: changed their sound. Regarding the ageing – I never was able to tell defiantly if a cartridge has signs of warring, and partially in context of jazz music. The only objective factor that I recognize is looking at the needle at 500x-700x microscope and to see if the actual profile of the needle’s tip was changed and it I was then how much. You can get a microscope on Ebay for a couple dozen of dollars.
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