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In Reply to: What makes the Denon DL-103 so special? posted by lesleymorley@yahoo.com on September 21, 2014 at 15:08:37:
The DL-103 has received a lot of attention due to its very high performance at its price. The thing to remember about a DL-103 is that it has a very high quality generator in a old fashioned body with an aluminum cantilever and conical stylus.
If you hold on to the concept of the generator of this cartridge you can get a hold on all of its variations. Denon has released many variations based on the original DL-103. By changing its coil wires, slight changes to its suspension, changes to its cantilever/stylus and changes to its body they can easily yield increased performance.
Its pretty obvious that many audiophiles do not get the point that the cantilever and stylus is a key to cartridge performance. They continuously exchange opinions about this or that cartridge without regard to the cantilever and stylus.
A comparison between a cartridge with an aluminum cantilever and conical stylus and another cartridge with a boron cantilever and line contact stylus almost always yields the same result...the harder cantilever and sharper profile stylus will yield better resolution and high frequency performance.
It is just an expression of a cartridge that can better trace the tighter and finer groves where the delicate high frequency information resides.
All of that crap said the DL-103 is a cartridge that can be used to reproduce very nice midrange and bass reproduction but a slightly rounded off high frequency performance. Its just an expression of the conical stylus and aluminum cantilever's inability to trace the finer grooves.
The DL-103 can be improved to yield much better performance or left alone to produce a very nice sound. Its very inexpensive and can be the source of a much better cartridge. Its also a very good tracking cartridge. Its also a tough SOB and can survive handling that would destroy other cartridges from boutique manufacturers.
There isn't much to complain about in this old fashioned cartridge. Yeah, it requires the same stepup or pre-preamp requirements as any other LOMC cartridge and has a low dynamic compliance but it gets the music right and that is the point of this hobby.
Ed
Life is analog...digital is just samples thereof
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Follow Ups
- You should consider a few things... - EdAInWestOC 06:50:18 09/22/14 (3)
- RE: You should consider a few things... - John Elison 09:45:03 09/22/14 (0)
- Well said, Eduardo. /nt\ - Opus 33 1/3 08:38:28 09/22/14 (1)
- RE: Well said, Eduardo. /nt\ - Mick Wolfe 09:09:47 09/22/14 (0)
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