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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2017 13:52:50 GMT
I've decided on a new additional arm for my Art Audio Composer Solo. It now has an SME mount with a Series IV.V which is a version made by SME for Kiseki. It's a IV with V bearings and wiring. I got that in preference to a Series V as I use a Koetsu Platinum Rosewood Signature as my main cartridge and i have always found Koetsus don't give their best in spring loaded arms. I want to be able to use the 78 RPM facility the Art Audio Phase 2 power supply gives me and I want to have the facility to play mono records on a good mono cartridge. To this end I'm getting a Jelco 750 from MCRU (Brook Audio) and I've chatted with Steve at Magna Audio about one of his arm pods. This should all come together in the next few weeks then I shall be looking at cartridges. I have a few Shure M75s and a couple of Goldring G800s I may get Expert Stylus to make the requisite styli for one of them. Anyone using a god modern mono cart they can recommend?  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 22, 2017 14:41:13 GMT
I heard a Miyajima mono cartridge sounding very good once. Miyajima site (if you can cope with the Japlish). |
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 22, 2017 14:44:58 GMT
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 22, 2017 16:40:04 GMT
Anyone using a god modern mono cart they can recommend? Sending you a pm about this Paul ... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2017 20:41:48 GMT
Thanks for the insights folks, having had a look at the database of my vinyl collection, I figure I have about 900 mono albums out of just over 3000 albums, so the investment in good mono makes sense. Of these most have been cut between 58 and 67 so I guess a .7mm stylus is a good idea. If I go for an MM with a user replaceable stylus then at a later date I can get a 1mm and a 78 stylus to add to the collection. Being an anorak sorry I mean completest, I have things like the Beatles in early mono and later in stereo some like Sgt. Peppers I have in both. Same with the Stones and other bands of that era. The first album I ever bought was Pepper and I remember the surprise of the guy in the record store when he sneeringly asked me if I wanted mono or stereo and I asked for the stereo version. I was 12 at the time and had just built my first stereo Garrard SP25 Mk II with a Shure M55 as blagged from one of my brothers when he got my father's TD 150, my dad got a TD 124...... I also got my brother's Teleton amp and buily a pair of speakers from the Gilbert Briggs book. I guess this Hi-Fi is the same one, I just keep replacing bit's like Trigger's broom  I'll have to get the bits together, and have a listen. I the meantime heres anothe frame of the Composer-Solo  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2017 20:57:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2017 21:48:58 GMT
I don't worry about the looks, though the Mrs. likes the industrial look of the Composer. It's all about the sound and information retrieval for me, plus the build quality and the Composer has both. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 5:47:02 GMT
I think if a Turntable is designed properly there aint that much in them.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 23, 2017 5:55:48 GMT
It depends - a belt drive setup is straighforward, direct drive is far more complex in both motor and circuit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 5:56:34 GMT
Yeh i know  |
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Post by ant on Oct 23, 2017 7:03:02 GMT
What about the mono versions of the at33?
The at33 is a pretty highly regarded cart, and the mono versions are very affordable, break it and buy another one affordable
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 7:06:15 GMT
I am a bit puzzled why you should spend so much on a deck/arm to play 78's! Im sure a Rega Planar 78 would be good enough  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 23, 2017 7:08:17 GMT
It's not for 78s, Andr'e. Mono LPs, @docstewart said.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 12:26:16 GMT
I will at some point get a 78 cart or stylus too. The problem there is that the eq is not the same as RIAA for 33 an 45s. Nigel Pearson at Loricraft did fettle an old Leak Varislope pre for Masterpiece Mastering so they could transcibe some 16" shellacs of the Bing Crosby show for CBS and they carried on using it as their front end fed from a 401 sitting on one of the SoundStage isolation platforms I designed for the 501. looking to the future I will get one of those for the mono arm. Ant I will look into the AT33, thanks
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Post by MartinT on Oct 23, 2017 12:29:41 GMT
You could look at the Graham Slee Jazz Club for 78 replay, too.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2017 12:52:32 GMT
You could look at the Graham Slee Jazz Club for 78 replay, too. Thanks for that Martin, looks very interesting again for the future when I get the mono set up running |
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Post by Stratmangler on Oct 23, 2017 14:21:13 GMT
I had the pleasure of meeting Hugo (Ammonite Acoustics) at the Carnage Hall show this year, and heard what a proper mono cart can do.
Hearing my favourite Beatles album, Rubber Soul (mono rerelease), being tracked by a Miyajima cart was nothing short of a revelation.
Prior to this I thought it was maybe a little bit laid back - I was using a stereo cart and using the mono switch on my phono stage.
Using a proper mono cart the generator only works in the horizontal plane, and the suspension is optimised for this.
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Post by ynwan on Nov 21, 2017 22:38:54 GMT
It depends - a belt drive setup is straighforward, direct drive is far more complex in both motor and circuit. That's just not true Martin. |
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Post by ynwan on Nov 21, 2017 22:39:29 GMT
I think if a Turntable is designed properly there aint that much in them. and neither is this! |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2017 22:43:31 GMT
Im not good with Cryptics Mark!
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