I will but you need to arrive 3 hours before anyone else to fine tune all my record players :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Harper
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I will but you need to arrive 3 hours before anyone else to fine tune all my record players :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Harper
And me :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Harper
Of course the real star of the show on Saturday wasn't the Techy or your Garrard - it was Natalie's home-made leek and potato soup!! :eyebrows:
Yum yum, mam, top scran!! :)
Marco.
Hi Dom,
Cheers, matey. I was pretty pleased with how the Techy performed in an alien system, but yours simply allowed it to sing! :)Quote:
Thank you for the kind words Marco, but you forgot to mention how good the Techy was sounding. I was very impressed with it, especially with the Goldring G800!
I am wondering how far I can take these carts now. Ruby cantilever sounds intriguing!!!
I know that there's a good 20-25% more performance to come from my T/T when I get the Ortofon tonearm and SPU back, so I look forward to demonstrating that to you.
As for the G800, my goodness, what a stunning performance it put in, when fitted with your superb elliptical stylus. It just goes to show how inherently good its generator is. Like we concluded, thus equipped, it can compete with cartridges today at up to a grand, but without having their often bass-light and clinical sounding presentation.
Fitted with your elliptical stylus, it really doesn't sound like a typical MM cartridge, which are often rather either shut-in sounding or rough as dogs, due to having inferior styli and rather crude overall construction, and as a result, are often bandwidth limited. The G800, fitted with your elliptical stylus and nickel cantilever, has a musical poise and refinement about its sound that belies its humble origins. It will be very interesting comparing it with my SPU...
I've been listening to the G800 all day, and being thoroughly entertained in the process... As they say, 'I'm lovin' it'! :fingers: :guitar: :hairmetal:
Snapper's re-tipped Troika was also rather special, and a real credit to your professional skills. More on that later....
Marco.
Thank you Natalie for taking the photos and Dom for posting them much appreciated.....back to the Formula One I go.....:)
Regards D S D L
Me and Steve too if space allows and its a saturday :)
To be honest Marco, the elliptical tip is only a small part of the upgrade. The most important aspect is the hand made nickel cantilever. This is the real secret to the performance upgrade. The nickel cantilever is a solid rod, 0.3mm diameter so same dimensions as a typical boron cantilever, not as flexible as hollow aluminium, but not quite as stiff as boron.
Ah, nice one... Thanks for the clarification, Dom! Details now added in :)
Marco.
Originall posted by Mains Cables R Us
I'd like to come along too, if you've room for a small one. Hopefully Marco will have everything in place on the techy by then and Doms cart will have some decent hours on it (if he's willing to get that slate plinth over to yours) could be a stunning day.HTML Code:I have decided to have a bake off myself hopefully before Christmas
Regards
Greg
Well after hearing it I want one. So my advice to anyone wanting a top bollox cartridge for beer money is buy one and send it to Dominic for his up-grade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dominic Harper
The sound improvement was simply startling.
Marco I expect you to get to the post office tomorrow a.m to post the cartridge please to the main man.
:)
No problemo, we can have a turntable bake off as I will have my 401 with SME 309 and my new cartridge, a brand spanking new 1210 with my new platter and Mk II PSU, I will ask Nick to bring his SP10 with hadcock arm, Dom's 401 if he can hire a team of horses to transport it down from Preston. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Greg2010
It's not on though unless Natalie brings some soup.