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In Reply to: RE: High compliance ceramic cartridges posted by maxhifi on March 08, 2016 at 07:57:27
My father has a lot of experience with ceramic cartridges. He'd just laugh if he heard someone wanted to try to use one in hi-fi applications, no offense intended.The only advantage of ceramic cartridges is that they're loud, really loud. They were originally designed to be plugged directly into an amp, no pre-amplification necessary.
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It's amazing that hipsters who insist they can hear sampling remnants in interpolated 24/96 digital waveforms can somehow fail to detect surface noise from their own vinyl LPs.
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The exception was Micro Acoustics. What they called an electret cartridge was a patented variation on the ceramic cartridge. I had a 2002e on my Sansui turntable. It tracked very well will a low tracking force. It also connected to a standard moving magnet phono input. I think I still have it. At the time, I was not aware of all the engineering that went into this cartridge. It is undeniably the best ceramic cartage ever made!
Dave
tracks and sounds excellent still.
"The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat" - Confucius
Coincidentally, I have a Grace 704 too. Unfortunately, the price for NOS Micro Acoustic needles is astronomical, so I will have to wait until I can get the lighting rigged on my microscope to check the stylus.
Dave
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