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In Reply to: RE: I thought I'd enjoy my afternoon of cartridge changing posted by amioutaline? on April 09, 2014 at 19:53:54
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I am just as knocked out about the excellence of my ZYX R-50 yesterday as when I first installed it months ago.
I bought it as a demo from Mehran with around 100 hours on it. He gave me a verbal six month replacement guarantee. After 40-something sides I found that it wouldn't cleanly track the last cut on side one of 88 Basie Street. I called him and asked his opinion: VTF, arm compatibility; the usual things. He unhesitatingly offered to send it to Japan for inspection if I would ship it to him in Chicago. I agreed, sent it along and put the recently Soundsmithed Aurum Beta S back in service.
XYX informed us that the cartridge tested "as new" but that "the trackability was low", which they adjusted. After just 60 days or so the cartridge was returned to me, without any shipping charges, wrapped as new.
I'm sure, judging by the gear he sells, that I am small potatoes to Mehran but I was treated like a rich man. Better yet, of all the many cartridges I've installed, none has had the immediate impact on my listening enjoyment as the R-50. It might not be up there with the $5-15,000 group, but it's a big step up from anything I've heard in the under $1,000s.
Oh. It tracks the Count Basie just fine now which may have more to do with my new "car crash" method of measuring VTF at record height as any adjustment ZYX made.
Cassette cases or something along those lines will take away the "crash potential." I set my VTF in the same area as you do.
M~
i am currently installing (attampting) a jmw12 on my tnt. since i am not sure if i am keeping it or not, i am trying to make due with the armboard that was on it on which sat an sme. round 2 is tonight. i think i am making progress. the cartridge is on the armwand at least and i liked how easy it was to mount and hook up the wires. i agree that height may be an issue as it probably won't be ideal given the cobbled together nature. sounds like the actual adjustment will take patience. at least this one has the vta on the fly.
Tom Collins
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