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In Reply to: RE: Mondial: Your Question Is a Non Sequitur . . . posted by mondial on September 27, 2015 at 14:15:22:
and remember, I am flawed . . . have been made over many years. I currently use a 9-inch SME pivoted tonearm, but may next move to a Sme V-12 or a Kuzma 4-point. At this time, I do not intend to experiment with tangential trackers. The best-sounding cartridges of my experience have all been low-output mcs tending to have medium to low compliance so a bit of extra mass from the extra length is unlikely to hurt and may help. Not my pocketbook but my sense of sanity causes me to agree with John Ellison re phono-cartridge value vs. cost (as well as some other of his views that seem to me based on math and common sense).
As for why I choose/chose various pieces of equipment I now use in my home, I suspect that that depends/depended on the quality of my hearing at the relevant times as well as that of my access to pieces for serious audition, how financially flush I was feeling, whether long-term exposure to a piece drove me away or recommended keeping or finding something similar, my primitive (but not totally absent) understanding of engineering principles, other considerations explicable only by a psychologist -- shall I go on?
The "sweet spot" in all that is the one that commends itself most to you and not necessarily to any other.
Good luck,
Jeremy
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- My Choices . . . - goldenthal 15:08:48 09/27/15 (3)
- Speakers... - Lew 07:38:08 09/30/15 (0)
- PS to John Elison - goldenthal 15:12:13 09/27/15 (1)
- RE: PS to John Elison - John Elison 17:05:20 09/27/15 (0)