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[mrJim]

ND rocks

weeeee yahhh!

LG yes sir that's why I went right back to them

I was going back and forth between the Shure manual gauge and the AcousTech Stylus Force Gauge electronic. I leaning to the manual gauge, then you sealed it

 

[LG]

^^Glad you are happy with your choice, mine works fine and it's so simple there's not much that can go wrong.

 

[gcczep]

There and there...

^^I got a free stylus pressure gauge last summer when I bought my Dynavector from my friend's shop. Nothing fancy just a slide with a counter weight and increments to measure the the tracking force. I don't think it was more than $20.

Shure SFG-2 Stylus Force Gauge.(Easy to find online)

28 dollas on Amazon. $36 at ND. Former you have to buy $35 for free shipping and Uncle Sam gets his cut too. Hmmm...

 

[LG]

^^Even if I didn't get mine free......I would have got the Shure. Electronic ones can be dodgy not much can go wrong with the SFG 2.

 

[mrJim]

28 dollas on Amazon. $36 at ND. Former you have to buy $35 for free shipping and Uncle Sam gets his cut too. Hmmm...

I would and did go with ND way ahead them.

The gauge came today and its pretty nice. I'll probably be able to listen to it tonight.

 

[mrJim]

Just spun a few songs after a quick setup with the Shure SFG-2.

I upgraded the Rega Carbon cartridge that came with my Rega TT to a Ortofon 2M Blue.

The first impression is the Ortofon 2M Blue is a very healthy upgrade from the Raga Carbon. The blue immediately produces deeper richer sound and eliminates a lot of surface noise that the Carbon doesn't. I tried a couple different albums to see if produce any distortion out of and so far so good it look like it aligned and setup fairly good.

its really not much of a comparison between the two they are pretty far a part. all that and the O Blue is brand new. it's very nice

jim

 

[LG]

^^And the Blue will get better when it's broken in Jim.

I bought a cheap Grado a couple years back to use specifically to listen to some of my Mom's old albums before deciding whether to keep them or throw them out. It did the job, the bass response was really quite good for such a modest cartridge. But when I bought my Dynavector it was so much better it's impossible to do a comparison. I don't regret buying the Grado, but I don't know if I'll ever use it again except to listen to used records as a quality check.

 

[taha]

I have now given up on all things head phone or ear bud related. Other than filling an a void in the air (working out) they're useless to me. For the last few months I have started to hate the music I once loved. I knew something was messed up when Maiden and Saxon even seemed bland. So in the last month or so I have picked up about 15 new cd's. Same thing, bland headphone sound. But the same music in my listening room with my chosen stereo system and BAMM, that sounds fantastic, the love comes back.....

 

[mrJim]

^^ hear ya taha. ear buds and mp3 players have their place (working out, on the go etc.). but good sound will be in the listening room

 

[mrJim]

I have been doing some testing ripping some vinyl; playing files and vinyl back to back. And there are clearly differences.

At this point the TT setup produces sound a depth beyond what I can capture to a digital file. This wasn't the case with the old cartridge but now doubt it is now.

I have posted in the past, never assume you are getting the highest quality passed through to digital files and I always "point" at 24/192. One reason was all testing I was doing debunking the myths and the bottleneck recording digital files on the PC. The other was Nyquist Theorem which is nothing new and has nothing to do with digital files (just signal processing and math).

What I was able to produce was a digital that seems to reproduce some extremely good sound quality somewhat better that CD.

I think it will take some equipment changes in order to reproduce the sound that the TT is producing.

So in the mean time, I listen to my vinyl and enjoy it immensely.

More to come

Jim