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Koetsu are crap and it is sad that some ognorant or criminal people crated so much hype about it. Might be in past it was better, as it was proposed above by somebody in this thread, but I doubt as I know people who drooled about Koetsu 20 years back...
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Here is a snippet from an email from Jonathan Carr (Lyra cartridge designer) about objectives and considerations regarding cartridge loading. Most of this is old news, I only re-post it here as a convenient synopsis on this most misunderstood t...
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No one else posted this, so I'll take one for the Team by mentioning Fremer's May 2012 Analog Corner article in Stereophile. Apparently, Fremer has gotten at least two high-dollar Lyra cartridges with indifferent stylus-to-cantilever mounting. I co...
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***The proper loading value is difficult to say without knowing your system, as it is partly a preamp and ultrasonic RF issue as well as one that involves the cartridge and audible frequencies. Some cartridges have frequency abberations within ...
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STYLUS CLEANING – LIKE MAGIC! I own a ZeroDust, an XtremePhono and some liquid stylus cleaners, but I don’t use them anymore. Why? Because none of them works as well as a product I bought at the supermarket for a few pennies. I've been using th...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I finally concluded that I need a better mono cartridge. Screw you Denon-102! I can’t listen this midrange pusher anymore![/quote]Send it over to me Romy, I'll make sure the little offender doesn't escape! :) Brian (who lis...
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RomyHaving worked in a high end shop and doing lots of carts I will lend my experiences.Suspensions either harden or soften. When they soften you will notice that your VTA starts to go, you have to lift the rear of the cart and they go quite rapidly....
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Hello Romy,Just thought I'd post my latest re-visit to this cartridge.I've played with this overthe last 2 years on and off between Helikon/VDH MC10. It was ok but did not make a big deal,so I carried on with the Lyra which was finebut not what ...
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Well, some say, he loves reading those postings, others think he raped his grandma or (and) will be responsible for the next earthquake in California, some bet he was a member of the well known German Anonymous Audiophile Alcoholics and left them bec...
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Right, so it is. B U T it seems not the case, that the final load-value the cart sees is the same with non-SUT, as is the case with an SUT. Unless your experience is different - therefore my question. If you look at Lyra's recommended loading specs i...
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***Here we go! What an accomplishment! I wonder if the Lyra cartridges sound so gray and so boring because of this “accomplishment” or there is any other reasons.***I knew that the reference to his high gain Connoisseur phono stages is coming.Self-pr...
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Manufacturers do not recommend any specific loading, and it they do then they shell not do it. They recommend a region where most probable final loading value might be. In case a transform is use it make not difference; they just transfer impedance i...
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Hi Romy,
of course, no manufacturer give one value only (non that I would know), but will spec. a range starting with some value e.g. >10ohm or say >100ohm and either putting a cap at 500ohm, 1k or nothing at all, meaning 47k (if that su...
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We are in a new chapter of High end:
Copies
Well Tempered: Schroeder
Triplanar : Talea
DaVinci : Reed
What do they have in common?
No own idea
No new calculation
Cheap Arm wands (wood)
Aggressive marketing via Interne...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Fuck the Fremer and anathema to each single audio product he touches. Sometime those whore do play the primitive publicity games in order to send a message of “own integrity”. That all BS and I do not even want to talk abo...
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I used to have a few musician friends and played a little myself, but they were never really interested in audio, they did have a system but no intention to sit in the sweetspot or anything of the sort, we used to go to concerts and they would carry...
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There is absolutely no other business out there, where you can find so many idiots, be it reviewer, be it customer who sell / buy products they have no idea about.
Talking about reviewers is wasted time, because you and I (maybe ...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]... If it was really that bad Stitch would be first to give his honest opinion , instead he only remarked that it was interesting but different. I was surprised how pleasant...[/quote]It is quite common to "rate" a Demo negative,...
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Just a few lines to the "Performance" of this piece of wood on strings for 7k $I listened to the Schroeder Reference + SQ and some custom made ones which were normally not available (Schroeder model blahblah with Valhalla cable etc.)(of course you ca...
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Stressing Bass in my former post I would like do not overly accent the lower bass itself but rather an organic combination of bass with something that I would call “full body” sound.
It we look at many properly setups, loaded and amplified cartridge...
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Dear gentlemen,My name is Frank Schröder and I'm the guy in the picture. It wasn't taken to show off anything, I actually noticed it after the fact.I came across this thread by accident and even though I realize that I may be better off forgetting ab...
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[quote user="Ronnie"]Not expensive, Small size...cheap and cheerful....[/quote]…which actually brings another question: “why there is not a lot 'better' SS phonostages out there?” I am far from possessing expertise to assess this subject objectively ...
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It is more or less in the same direction like any Product Placement ( some call it review) from that group who lives from sales. That means, it is always the same "direction":
Rule No 1: Compare the object with something similar which is much...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I would LOVE to find somebody who would work on Schwarz…[/quote]Sunday morning, cloudy Sky and I thought to myself:“Let‘s talk with My Audiophile Buddy (MAB)Me: "Hi, how is life?"MAB: "Great. How is your girl friend?"...
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This is one example of the very successful marketing Hypes and in Reality this cartridge is sonically not better than those for 1k (at best)
I did compare it with a Lyra Helikon...
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same procedure as every year...
When we did a visit at Munich we are no negative audiophiles, we are curious and just wanted to know what is going on.
Based on recession 30% less Exhibitors were there, from about 360 in 2008...
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After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....
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