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- Halfbiass...Electron Herder and Backass Woof
I've seen that Fred....it's golden.....
When's the last time you saw Robert Plant play a guitar? I love old rockers on stage:
Nando.
No real losers, could live with all of them. I only have a dozen or so carts, picked six I already liked and then narrowed down to three.Gettin' all scientifical n stuff.
So... What were your winners? (and which were the losers?)
All OEM, the Pioneer and AT13Ea are NOS, the rest are lightly used supposedly.Are those all with their OEM stylus, or are any of them replacements/upgrades?
I managed to buy a few more NOS cartridges in the past few weeks, but they are ones I already have used and sought as future replacements on my turntables.Since my ears weren’t ringing and it was crappy weather I decided to do a little cartridge testing. One of the nice things about linear trackers is that setup is relatively easy. I have been collecting head shells and vintage carts for a while and wanted to see which ones I liked. Using the same TT, system and record, I swapped carts in and out multiple times trying to determine their characteristics and overall performance. To my surprise none were dogs, all sounded pretty good and a couple were really nice. Like an idiot I got so wrapped up in playing with them that I didn’t take any notes, just picked my favorite three and went with those on the three systems. Not very scientific but sure was fun. I did drag out the old Realistic sound meter to make sure each was playing at the same amplitude, a little increase in volume can make one sound more dynamic than another.View attachment 62646View attachment 62647