Just slapped this onto my TT
So, I bought this a few weeks ago just to see what all the fuss was about. If read bits and pieces about it on various threads, pages and turntable sites, I was warned that the stylus might need replacing or retipping, but thought I'd buy it anyway, then just buy a replacement stylus when it arrived. Little did I know how hard it is to buy a NOS stylus for it.
So tonight after work, I was about to refit my Mission 774 arm to the techie when I remembered about the old cartridge I'd bought a few weeks back. I thought might as well try that before faffing about swapping arms on the TT.
I have just fitted it to my Orsonic headshell, didn't even use the Smartractor to set it up, just screwed it into the headshell roughly where I thought it should sit, checked the balance, set the tracking to 1.0g and dropped the needle onto the LP, Holy Moly what the heck is this thing, right away I was amazed by the bass, the slam, how tight it was, vocals sounded smooth and forward in the mix, the treble also seems to be spot on, clear, sharp, no rough edge, Stevie Ray Vaughans Tin Pan Alley is one of my go to tracks for testing cartridges Tony and Brian ( Scottish Mafia ) have heard my TT setup and were well impressed using a Zyx R100, I sold that then went to a Kontrapunkt B which they haven't heard, I think the KB betters the Zyx, but this old scrapper is their equal, in my system anyway, it seems to be exactly what I've been looking for in a cartridge for the last 3-4 years. I even heard Stevie say something in the track that I hadn't heard before!
I think Geoff will be along to sing its praises too so I'm sure he's a fan of them.
For me, it's the best buy I've made of any HiFi kit since joining AoS, PFM etc and I've spent £1000's
Just need to find a spare stylus for it now as it's going nowhere.
Gobsmacked is an understatement and I'm not just saying that because it cost next to nothing, I would be saying it even it it cost a few hundred
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Originally Posted by karma67
