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A worn stylus and or azimuth issues will cause sibilance. It is very tricky to inspect a stylus for azimuth without a microscope. There are alot of old and new styli incorrectly aligned, and even if you check arm azimuth, this is no indication stylus is correct.
While we are going on about old things, I would be fascinated by anyone trying a Sonotone 9tahc. It is ceramic so you will have to keep the volume down as it has loads of output, far more than a moving magnet.
Now these were largely only fitted to radiograms and record players and the Garrard 1025tc autochanger, but I remember them having zonking dynamics if a little limited in HF and not exactly flat across the frequency band, some would say full of character.
Richard
I'm not surprised, Richard, as that's precisely what happened to one of the NOS ones I bought!Quote:
Back in the very early 70's I was working for G.W Smith & Co who was one of the constituent parts of what became the Audiotronic group that traded as Laskys. I remember every Saturday at 257 Tottenham Court road we would sell about 100 TT packages that consisted of a Garrards SP25 in a Alan Sugar plinth and cover with a Goldring G800. AND every Monday morning there would be at least 10 of them back having shed their stylus as soon as they were asked to play a record, so I was very jaundiced towards them.
I haven't tried the 'E', but the more I hear about it from those that have, the more I'm almost certain that it wouldn't be my cup of tea.Quote:
Interestingly when they tried to go up market with the G800 super E to try and compete with the likes of the Shure V15 (everyone aspired to SME / Shure V15) it didn't really work, the low compliance with a high mass body made the thing warbly and unstable.
Marco.
I'm amazed people are hankering over the 'G800' & not the 'G900's !
The E was just an eliptical G800, the G800 super E was a different beast. And the G900 was horrible, they lost it at that point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
This has a copy of a super E review from about 1969 and other interesting things http://www.saturn-sound.com/history/...%20reviews.htm
Im leaning towards a worn stylus rather than incorrect azimuth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Harper
I might sell my nagaoka and send you my G800 for a retip,i'll wait till you do yours though and see what you think of it in your system.
Hi RichardQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
I'm almost 100% certain my Dad had one of these in his radiogram , from about 1970 , did it have a flip over stylus for 78's ?
Darren, I have tried the re-tipped G800 on my Garrard 301/sme combo and was stunned at what I heard. Bear in mind, that was a spherical tip! no sibilance whatsoever, tracking about 2.5g.
Yup! you can still buy stylus for them at ebay. They were just far better beasts than the crystals like Ronette and BSR. They could actually play music in a very characterful wayQuote:
Originally Posted by chris@panteg
Yes and its where my music loving journey started i guess , listening to my Dad's ' Wagner , Beethoven and Tchaikovsky records :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr Bunsen Honeydew
The Gram had a Bush reciever as i remember it and of course the Garrard autochanger.
I remember playing some Genesis to him ! He listened to all of it and then said to me :hmm: its a bit of an acquired taste :eyebrows: and too repetitive , bless him :)