Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
My System:
Amplification - Sansui AU-alpha 707 DR
Turntable - Technics SP10 MK2-Technics EPA-250 Tonearm-Yannis Tome 423.5Plus tonearm cable-Eichmann KLEI Absolute Harmony plugs.
Ortofon Cadenza Black moving coil cartridge-Fritz Gyger S re-tip. Panzerholz plinth.
CDP - Pioneer PD-91
Speakers - Spendor D7 on Soundcare SuperSpikes
QED Silver Spiral speaker cable-airloc banana plugs
Mains - Ultra Pure silver plated un-switched socket-Missing link EPS 500 silver plated plugs-Hi-Fi Tuning gold plated silver ceramic 13 amp fuses
What's a "thumper"?
The Firebottle modded Tron has its own thread if you'd like to know more:
http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...irebottle+tron
Personally, I can't see why anybody's products should be exempt from modding. People hear differently and designers bring different experiences and thinking to the table. Surely variety is good and mods can drive improvements. Look at Teddy Pardo and others influencing Naim PSU's. Lots more examples too, but nothing to do with cartridges, so I'll say no more here
Find them a bit laid back. Some seem to like that presentation, people I know with mega bucks set ups seem to like it that way, maybe it's more accurate but I don't think so. Koetsu', AN Io gold etc, meh.
I found a Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico says stylus that gives me what I want without all the problems of step up and phono stage matching, it's an expensive mine field. I am now enjoying a Decca C4E that is about as far away from a low output MC as I can get. Of course the differences are very small in reality and I'm just enjoying music and not listening for something unobtanium.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
To me, a thumper cartridge is one where the lower mids downwards have a full-on 'thumping' quality which isn't particularly tuneful or light-footed. Terrible description, but to me different from a more 'organic' bass presentation which the ear can find attractive. I love the Ortofon M20E Super, which is a 1g tracker with great musicality and delicacy, but find the FL stylus a bit harder going, the bass thickening a bit into a bit of a 'thump.' Incidentally, the descended 2M Bronze doesn't seem to do this on the small amount of listening I've given it.
Actually, a 2M Bronze stylus might possible put a little more 'funk' in the sound rather than colouring it darker, if you see what I mean.
P.S. Modding for more 'detail' often brings up listener fatigue or upsets the natural musical balance. I haven't heard the 'cheaper' Tron, but loved the 'Seven' just as it is and have been intermittently acquainted with Graham Tricker for many years... Of course, the hugely supplied two-box stage I have here has all the bass power and musicality you'd need from bottom to top and without details being etched in a 'HiFi' sense.
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Ok this post is recent history but only just seen it. I have a Jvc Z1s and Victor Z4s, could be the other way round but they are one and the same. I think the Z1s was on a turntable I bought and the Z4s was a freebie with my Stax arm. Both sound reasonable but wasn't aware of a jico stylus for them and cannot find one now.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.