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[quote user="guy sergeant"]*** I'm always amused by your concern regarding everyone else's ability to discern what might or might not achieve a successful result in the pursuit of good sound. It's remarkable given their limited criteria and compariti...
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[quote user="Brian Clark"]What you have there Romy is essentially the cartridge Ortofon introduced in 1948, the first production moving coil cartridge. The motor is the same, just the "suspension" material changed from india rubber to a modern elasto...
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With SME 3012 (Shelter 901), Ortofon RMG 309 (Orotofon S15-T) and Micro 237 (french mono cartridge early 50's, unbeatable)...I couldn't really get the sound I wanted out of the TT until I put it on the SR stands, I envy your vibraplane but trying shi...
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Adrian, it was my thinking that if I could have whatever I wanted, then I would have a hot-rodded Studer and a big library full of 15 ips master tapes and 1st generation dubs. But since I could not figure out/afford the tape thing, I went with the n...
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The Windfeld apparently suffers from production inconsistency. I'd avoid it. Ortofon have just released a new cartridge, the A90, which looks promising.I agree about the Decca Reference, I recently heard one in an SME 312 arm and it was very good, no...
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This is the point, Paul: is it a self-propelled, self-ass-licking FR7 club or does this cart has any merit?Old vs. new, new vs. old...in the world of planned obsolescnce I do not know how to navigate.There is a myriad of models, but what they are wor...
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Actually this picture doesn't say much with the cantilever and stylus unloaded. Can you take another picture with it on a record surface, with the VTF set in the range Ortofon suggests. And take it edge on from the outside of the platter? You kno...
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Thank you Brian - you confirmed what I feared. Caveat emptor. The seller is the former Van denHul repair guy in Germany - Detlev Brod. He offered a new SPU mono, at a price too good to be true. I specified the GM25,...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] When you used your 25Dia then can you recall a similar experience at the beginning of the cartridge live (sharpness and bass)? [/quote]
I have yet to own a CG25 Romy, my very first Ortofon - SPU Mono - is on its way fro...
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Sometimes ago I received an email from a NY guy that I know:
“I borrowed a friend's Sansui TU-X1 and just like I heard them at your place it sounds fantastic! What is it about this tuner? There is such an ease to the presentation and no distra...
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This kind of freakish subject and the title of this thread is most likely is very misleading. Commonly the term “last something” is used as “best of the best” after which there is nothing else to explore. This definition grotesquely stink with heavy ...
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The Jubilee I was referring to was an Ortofon. I stated with no second thought it hit the bay. Really I should not presume that as maybe it was a first or hundreth thought.A review of the Mantis from the former Jubilee owner is below.http://www.vinyl...
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Paul,As you know I am also a believer in the hard tracing, and have likewise consistently rejected all MC cartridges due to the lack of realism and their inability to penetrate beyond the most superficial layers of audio splendor, though these they d...
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Yes primarily i viseted Thomas to compare tonearms, he has a couple of Schroeders, the new graham Phantom ( mark III ) a vintage Ortofon amongst others. and he has a fine collection of cartridges, as I mentioned he is a very nice guy, The real surpri...
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What really pisses me off is that my second arm/cartridge has a very strange effect that I did not see neither in this arm (Micro 282) not in this cartridge (Ortofon SPU Classic). I am taking about dynamic compression. In fact it is very seldom you c...
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Glad to hear you finally went and did IT! Now let's see (hear) how buffered per-channel level-set resistance works with the per-channel curves, and how easy this is to tune and integrate per total (stereo) side. It seems like this pretty much "has t...
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Look what you have done to jack up pricess of vitavox (nobody was buying before your wistle) , Micro Seiki (gathering dust after Art Dudley wrote they bored the hell out of him) meittner dacs (suddenly the most musical in the market ;) Lamms (which a...
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[quote user="Wojtek"]Look what you have done to jack up pricess of vitavox (nobody was buying before your wistle) , Micro Seiki (gathering dust after Art Dudley wrote they bored the hell out of him) meittner dacs (suddenly the most musical in the...
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I just turned up the original paperwork while looking for the original packaging, in which I planned to return the cartridge to DK. The original packing slip was dated 27 July, 2002; rather more than the 8 years I "remembered". Which makes me wond...
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I don't suppose the input tube was a 437A?And perhaps (at that price) silver trannies? I have never never knowingly heard silver trannies (apart from my Ortofon step-up), and I wonder why anyone would pay that much for them when amorphous ...
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Yesterday a local audio guy to me with this idiotic cartridge experiments and I was forced to dis-calibrate my second arm. So, this morning I felt to go for Mravinsky Bruckner 8 that I have only on record and I was thinking what needle to put in my s...
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[quote user="starboy"]In the thread I wrote there is another Mantis owner Bauzace50 (a noted gentleman to myself in terms of transducers) who had a Jubilee as his reference and that with no second thought hit the Bay.[/quote]Did y...
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Romy, what you describe is exactly what motivated my own decision. This was the main thing that bugged me when listening between master tapes (and careful 1st dubs) and the LPs made from them, meaning the way the LP (and presumably the cartridg...
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So, having thought about it, there are enough concerns about the Windfeld, I do not care to have yet another $3000 experiment. The moving coil-cantilever system is to me fundamentally flawed. The primary differences we hear seem to very frequently ...
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Who know anything about this needle?I am playing now this CG-25 - my new Ortofon replacement. This new cartridge is turn out to be “MONO CG 25 Di”. It looks and feel completely different and this CG-25 is what I called the TRUE mono cartridge. I...
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"Bugger dogma!". Romy is quite right challenging my obeisance to the Series 1. These things are so rare and when found are likely to be in a somewhat less than pristine condition.
However, it is not only the arm tube that is more massive but the ...
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How nice that Chopin changed his mind about the waltz, and how nice that W. Malcuzynski tarried long enough to record these for us, using an instrument worthy of his talent and good engineers and equipment.Nice stereo, just a little over-blown. ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is interesting to see where the Ortofon new move will lead and if it has any following.Rgs, Romy the Cat[/quote]I think, it is special for European marketing. They think Classic music is normally for a Listener, who does...
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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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Hi Romy,On the Ortofon website those models of the SPU which don't come with inbuilt transformers, have a recommended load of >100 ohm. Using the cartridge into too low an impedance load definitely does lift the lower frequencies. Too high and the...
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