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kidhoward
04-10-2011, 11:16
Could someone tells me something more about cartridge on picture. In other thread it was mentioned that it could be Tracer 1. i will be glad if I could get some details.
hifi_dave
04-10-2011, 13:43
I've replied to this on another of your threads.
kidhoward
04-10-2011, 14:19
Thank you Dave. But I would like to know some technical details. Like output voltage, needle tip ect. I have google it but nothing usefull came out.
Audioman
04-10-2011, 14:29
That turntable (Pear Audio Europe Blue ?) looks lke a mix of Notts Analogue and Fletcher Audio parts. With Tom gone what is the future for these products ?
hifi_dave
04-10-2011, 15:51
Thank you Dave. But I would like to know some technical details. Like output voltage, needle tip ect. I have google it but nothing usefull came out.

Well, the closest I ever got to a specification from Tom was ' ere Kid, try this '. On querying further I was told ' it's a little blue thingy '.

The Fletcher turntables were designed and developed by Tom over several years and are currently being manufactured in Denmark.
DSJR
04-10-2011, 16:56
Dave will confirm this, but NAS became a separate company in Tom's lifetime and was independent by his untimely death.
kidhoward
05-10-2011, 01:00
Well, the closest I ever got to a specification from Tom was ' ere Kid, try this '. On querying further I was told ' it's a little blue thingy '.

I was told the same. It is working incredible well. So well that I asked myself why are all those big bucks cartridge for. So as it looks now I will stay with these information :).
YNWaN
05-10-2011, 07:37
If it is like the Notingham Analogue Tracer 1 (which seems likely to me), then it is a Moving Magnet design, tracking force is 1.5 to 2.5g.

http://www.vinylengine.com/images/cartridgedb/nottingham_analogtracer1.jpg

Vinyl Engine have more details in their Cartridge Database - look under Nottingham Analogue.
Darren
06-10-2011, 13:04
I had a tracer one. It was nothing special I fear and was soundly beaten by the DNM/Reson version of the Goldring 1042 which was far more dymamic and had much better bass.

The Ortofon Jubilee which followed it was so much better again but so it should have been at almost ten times the price.
basnas
06-10-2011, 17:13
Hi
This is a tracer 1. From Nottingham analogue.
It looks like a Excel es 70s, from Japan.
See this link:

http://www.lptunes.com/Stylus-for-Nottingham-Analogue-Studio-Tracer-1-p/nottinghamtracer1.htm

And the blue use a special Can between the cartridge and the tonearm.
Only made for friends and personal use.Never commercially made. This is the infirmation from the Fletcher Audio in Denmark, with the can.
best jan
DSJR
06-10-2011, 17:49
I think Tom mainly supplied these to those poor people who couldn't, or wouldn't, use a Decca...

I heard it a few times and was a bit underwhelmed. But then I was a regular Decca listener and much else was gaslight, until the Decca committed suicide, as they often and regularly did back then...
hifi_dave
06-10-2011, 19:03
We used to give the Tracer 1 to customers as a stop-gap, it was a bit bland. The Tracer 3 was a big leap forward but still nothing like a Decca/London.

I think I've got a Tracer in my 'cartridge' box..:scratch:
Darren
06-10-2011, 19:06
We used to give the Tracer 1 to customers as a stop-gap, it was a bit bland. The Tracer 3 was a big leap forward but still nothing like a Decca/London.

I think I've got a Tracer in my 'cartridge' box..:scratch:

Glad to hear I'm not deaf..... I thought the very same thing.