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Snagged two of these from an eBay seller a few yrs ago who was selling a collection of NOS, NIB @$75 per. I have it on my Nott Horizon. Recently swapped out with grado gold. No contest. Put the ADC back pronto. This MM has the virtues of a MC. It has so much transparency, finesse, image, deep & well defined bass, dynamics to spare, etc... I know the high compliance suggests a lower mass tonearm than the RB250, but it sounds great. The black body, I believe, is indicative of the last iteration of the production cart. Glad I bought two. Photos show it tracking orig, UK Parlophone, Beatles mono Sgt Pepper, which is outstanding. BTW, the new mono SP reissue holds its own very well by comparison. May be even a little less edgy than orig.
Jim
"If less is more, just think how much more more would be!" - Frasier Crane.
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If the subject is great old MM cartridges, Technics made some of the best if not the best. The EPC 205 is magic and the EPC 100 MK4 is even better.
I loved mine when I had it, and I was very depressed when I broke it. When I replaced it, I really stepped up to the plate and bought the B&O MMC-2. There was no comparison. The ADC had a nice mid bass punch to it, but the B&O was more even bodied and resolving. Still, I'd like to hear the ADC on a better table than what I had back when I was a teenager. With my Signet XK-50, the ADC would probably match very well with it. My concern with older carts of course is the suspension, and something tells me that the bottoming out others are describing here has a lot to do with weakened suspensions and arms the ADC's were never meant to be used with.
"Hope is a good thing. Maybe, the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
Hey Curious, I'm not totally certain of this but it seems suspension failures are far more common on moving coils than with MM or MI cartridges. At least that has been my experience so far.
Unfortunately the one exception was an ADC XLM II I bought new in the '70s. That did have a suspension failure within a month or two but was replaced under warranty. The replacement worked fine and held up well. It was among the better sounding cartridges I've owned.
"You can’t know what the “best” is unless you have heard everything, and keep in mind that given individual tastes, there really isn’t any such thing." HP
Has anyone here compared the XLM to the Grace F9?
Love the XLM and have a F9, but it needs a stylus and I haven't tried it yet. One of those "when I get around to it" things!
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Freak out...Far out...In out....
both are excellent, my fave being the XLM but the f9e was close in sound. i have two f9Es but no longer an XLM. i would love to have another original XLM.
...regards...tr
Both are excellent MMs, along with my current Nagaoka, the best of the dozens of MMs I've owned.
Of the two, I preferred the Grace, by a slight margin. I found it to be just a bit more involving than the ADC.
And it is far more compatible with a wider range of arms than the XLM.
Soundsmith can provide a replacement stylus for the Grace.
Grace F9E on Jelco SA-370H arm
ADC XLM MKII on Infinity Black Widow arm
Opus 33 1/3
Thanks for the feed back. I know about the Soundsmith replacements. Just need to decide which one. Leaning towards the nude elliptical.
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Freak out...Far out...In out....
Opus 33 1/3
The grace tracks better and works far better with records with a slight warp to them. The ADC bottoms out pretty quick.
"We are all in God's hands... and God is a malign thug."
-Mark Twain
to bottom on my SL-1200 arm, but not on the 3.5 g Infinity arm.
Opus 33 1/3
which it what I used with Pritchard's later design, the Sonus Blue.
If you like the ADC XLM II, you should hear one of the ADC TRX series of cartridges. It's the best MM cartridge I have owned.
TR
The ADC Super XLM MkII (Shibata) is a super cartridge. Your above description describes a very exceptional cartridge of its time. Detailed and transparent. Bar None." There are probably only three or four phono cartridges that legitimately rank in the pantheon of all-time super cartridges. Of these, the ADC XLM must be included, as many audio people consider it something of a reference standard. "
- Audio Scene Canada November 1975
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ADC made some very fine cartridges. I have heard the ADC 25 and ADC 26 were excellent too. Enjoy the tunes!
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