Daniel Quinn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:49 pm On you tube the chief researcher at Ortofon spends 15 minutes spelling out mm and MC .

It easy to see why MC are better

This one?

All i got out of it was that MC cartridges have big magnets and small coils and MM vice versa.

This thread is stirring memories from forty years back. I used to have an Ortofon VMS20E MK2 which I modified with a cap to smoothe brightness. I also replaced the stylus with an Elete parabolic one. I didn't realize that was an option. Nice. I have a few replacement stylii for the `20, but only on...

You aren't weird, maybe i didn't get something quite right, but my DL103 (body removed) sounds quite unremarkable, not bad, but not great either. My Ortofon VMS20II sounds much better. Both stylii looked quite special under the microscope though, compared to most others.

Nothing but anecdotes ahead... My first real cartridge was the ADC QLM36, actually it was an AT 3600 branded as Sanyo, but i dismissed as being no good (it isn't, i still have it). Anyway, this ADC saw me through a couple of decades of use, when it was replaced with a stereohedron Pickering XV15, wh...

If i put my phone (old samsung galaxy) in front of my DAC, it will pick up noises (whistles and scratches) and transfer them into the AP70 sitting next to it. This is on my work desk, so this DAC also has an intel NUC next to it and 2 monitors above it, so it's in a noise rich environment, but still...

Copied directly from the Sumiko website, see https://sumikophonocartridges.com/what-is-a-phono-cartridge/ The suspension is typically made with a compliant elastomer material that allows the cantilever to move freely in the dimensions the stylus requires, but also acts to damp resonance coming from...

Grab an isolation transformer (doesn't have to be a big one), plug all your switchmode supplies into that. Works for me.

karatestu wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:13 pm I just listened to Where is my mind. A question I often ask myself.

It's all gone -- Chris Rea. :doh:

Of course :grin: We sound nerds get up to all sorts of weird behaviour.. My dream is to design and build a house which has proper infinite baffle bass drivers built in to the floor 🤣 or the walls. That'll show em. Yeah do it! Old altec driver here, dumps into a transmission line formed by floor joi...

It could still be room acoustics. One or both speakers can excite a room mode and your head positioning at the anti-node of that mode means it stands out. The easiest solution to this one is to listen in or near a node (a pressure minimum). Other things could be a driver seal leak, check playing a L...