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In Reply to: Re: Surprised that Shure made your list. posted by Bold Eagle on May 8, 2007 at 11:04:09:
Awful? I might not go that far. I bought one to mate with my Ariston RD-11s / SME3009 II (Improved of course) in '74. While later Ortofons, Sonus(es) and Denons easily bettered it, the V-15 was pretty decent.Fast forward thirty plus years. I'm using a M97E in the same combo with my garage system. While it does not have the resolution of a Dynavector MC in the main system, it is quite listenable.
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Like everything else, it's all about matching. In my case it was not a good match. Biggest thing for me was a lack of bass, even with Double Advents.
if I may ask? It needed a pretty low mass arm.
It was installed in a Dual. Probably a 1219 or 1229, but maybe a 1015, which did have a higher mass arm than later Duals. It was a long time ago, and I went through a number of models back then, including a much tweaked up Garrard Lab 80. Now that had a heavy arm!I took a lot of mass out of that lab 80 arm, but never got it low enough for the compliant Shure models.
The V15 III had very high compliance. I am not suprised that it did not sound right in those arms. Remember the Grace 707? That was the kind of arm the V15 III liked. It was common practice at the time, to put a high compliance cartrdge in a heavy arm, but it was not a good idea.I have an M97xe in a 707. I checked the resonance with a test record and it was as good as it gets! It sounds great too!
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