Originally Posted by
Barry
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Hundreds of moving coil cartridges"? How many hundred? I doubt if a hundred MC cartridges have ever been designed.
Barry I have owned cartridges for over 40 years I have owned the entire VDH line up pretty much all the early lyras many many spus, in the 90,s I was friendly with ricardo of Absolute sounds and was constantly swapping koetsus. Then i went through a phase of owning ortofons had many spu,s then the kiseki phase owned a Lapis lazuli on a Goldmund Reference, then went through many benzes the list goes on. Not to mention all the IO versions inc the mighty LTD on a Voyd reference with cylene tonearm. I had an brief encounter with clear audio from the mid 80's when Automation sciences were the importer and Branko of Audiofreaks was an young assistant,owning all the models in the 90,s stopped at an early goldfinger. I have owned a Madake with its matching SUT which is a wonderful example of an MC cartridge on the right arm it was fantastic worked great on the FR66 which I much prefer than the Ikeda 407IT I previously owned.
I personally love the MC cartridges I own the stone bodied Koetsu is sweet so is the etsuro and too is the shindo spu love the Top wing too. My point is that you generally have to spend alot of money to beat a good MM thats all. I just find the general trend on Lyras and clearaudios and even suprisingly some koetsu models like the urushi a bit sterile for my personal taste. If you wish to come and hear the cartridges I currently own please send me a message. I am certainly not damming all MC cartridges as I only own MC cartridges but at what an expense and when I think of the money I wasted learning the hard way it makes me cringe.
Last edited by Vrajbasi; 28-08-2018 at 05:53.
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