Yes, and I've never understood why you HAVE to track so heavy on those old
78s. Big, lazy grooves. Nothing that even approaches high frequencies
(12k?). 78rpm just stretches out all the difficult stuff so nicely
(compared to the inner grooves of a stereo microgroove). Also, they
aren't know to have huge transients (bass drum whacks). It always seemed
like tracing a microgroove was way more difficult.
David Lennick wrote:
Don't know the weight, but as it turns out, this stylus is hardly a
dud..I was using too
light a tracking force on it!
dl
phillip holmes wrote:
How many grams is five cents? I'm surprised that Expert made a dud.
They have two cartridges of mine being rebuilt.
Phillip
David Lennick wrote:
"From: "phillip holmes" <insuranceman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Absolutely. And I totally agree that actually building a listening
room
can be prohibitively expensive. Improvements are easily made with
small
adjustments. Too many people find some formula to use, set their
listening room up and never listen to the results. I've had
epiphanies
from moving the speakers a few inches.
Hey..I had an epiphany that cost me five cents. A 2.0 mil Truncated
Elliptical
stylus from Expert that I got a couple of years ago had never given me
joy..loose
fit, too much chatter, variable results, but as a last resort I tried
it this week
on a difficult disc, and added a five cent piece to the tone arm (the
Stanton
styli won't take that much extra weight). It played gorgeously. I ended
up
re-doing two projects this weekend because of the improvement.
dl
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