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Thanks, will look into them. I understand the HE560s have a slightly deeper base respone than the sundaras so that certainly interest me.

Thanks, will have a look.

Hi there,
I am looking to buy a pair of Hifiman Sundara headphones or a similar pair of magnetic planar headphones. Must be in excellent condition and be able to be posted. UK only...

Thanks for sharing this, I read it while queuing up outside a shop in Edinburgh for over 2hours, all for the love of Dylan. Interesting that he uses a refurbished Thorens td160.

Cheers will look that one up.

Great post Barry.

Is it the case they clearly did not recommend them or was MC just generally less of an option for consumers in the mid 60's market?

Think some SME tonearms (in the States?) where actually badged Shure.

Interesting stuff. The more I hear from people who have experience of using the non improved it is clear that they are fairly flexible tonearms. I'm certainly keen to try MC in the future. Will look...

Great to hear.

Thanks Barry that's really helpful, very clearly written.

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I sent an email to SME enquiring what modern MM they would recommend for this arm, the service manager sent me this reply:

"For these arm we suggest models from Orotofon(2M range) Grado or...

I should say that I misnamed it in my original post, it is evaluator not calculator.

Very good point. I think it should only be used as a rough estimate with certain tonearms.

With the M55e at 6.7g plus the SME(non improved)tone arm mass at 12.5g and the dynamic compliance at 25×10-6cm it is giving the frequency at the less than ideal 7Hz. I don't know where vinyl engine...

I understand it is dynamic compliance. If only static is listed then you half that number to get a rough idea of dynamic compliance from what I understand. I've only been reading up on this the past...

Cheers, its good to know I'm not completely useless when it comes to reading technical stuff.
I actually came across your previous thread from a couple of years ago about audio technica carts...

From what I've read manufacturers include the weight of the headshell in the overall weight of their quoted figures but I'm not sure if that's a universal rule.

I've been reading up a bit on cartridge compliance and came across Vinyl Engines cartridge resonance calculator. It seems like a useful tool but I've confused myself a bit with it.
When it asks for...

Last time I checked was around 6 months ago and they were still available from the States, best part of £200 from what I recall.

Cheers John, from a bit of reading it looks like quite a few ortofon cartridges would work. Will look into the A&R, I know Jico have stopped making the SAS at the moment, I am keen to try a SAS on my...

Cheers for all the suggestions folks, lot's of options to consider, it seems the tonearm is a bit more flexible than I first believed so that can only be a good thing. Anyone aware of modern more...

Yeah I think you are on to something.

Cheers that's another one to consider and I will look it up. I'm currently thinking the mm phonostage I'm using is pretty decent and would like to get the best out of it before moving on to MC...