[theeclone]

I wish I could give you a more definitive answer, but it’s been many many years since I’ve had an MM cartridge. I believe that some of the wood body Grados (Statement series?) are lower compliance, but you’d have to do some homework to be certain, and they are definitely in a higher price bracket than the gold (which is certainly a beautiful sounding cartridge - indeed, way back I had a MusicMan modified gold from the UK that I wanted desperately to make work with my SME IV tonearm but, alas, the mismatch was too great and I never could get them to play nicely together).

Good luck, and Enjoy the ride!

Thanks, I will look into the older statement cartridges! It seems pretty much anything in their newer series' are 20cu.

For the time being I've upgraded to an 8mz stylus and have taken the paddle off the fluid dampening system. Much prefer the sound without it and am willing to put up with the ocasional tracking issue. Maybe 95% of the time I'm fine in that department now. If I need to archive a warped record I can reattach the paddle or use the AT cart if it pairs well w the record.

Also these paver stones help for when I'm walking nearby

 

[CJG888]

Work in progress:

 

[Podster]

Thanks, I will look into the older statement cartridges! It seems pretty much anything in their newer series' are 20cu.

For the time being I've upgraded to an 8mz stylus and have taken the paddle off the fluid dampening system. Much prefer the sound without it and am willing to put up with the ocasional tracking issue. Maybe 95% of the time I'm fine in that department now. If I need to archive a warped record I can reattach the paddle or use the AT cart if it pairs well w the record.

Also these paver stones help for when I'm walking nearby

Well done, my foot fault remedy was suspended Not to be confused with my drivers license condition

 

[Podster]

I still marvel at how this arm tracks so well, I'd like to know how Jim even came up with it! Had an Epiphany on the Golf course and said I have an idea for a new tone arm design, how it works and tracks true is simply amazing

 

[L0rdGwyn]

Finally finished the overhaul of my Thorens TD 125 MKII.

Here's everything I've done to it:

-New walnut plinth
-Sorane TA-1 tonearm
-New custom Corian armboard
-Replaced rubber washers in the suspension
-Replaced suspension adjustment cups
-New balanced 5-pin DIN to dual 3-pin XLR tonearm cable
-New aluminum face plate (cuing switch removed as it was no longer functional with the new tonearm)
-Replaced electrolytic caps on the speed controller
-Polished the platter

Still even more I could do, but time to stop for now!

 

[CJG888]

Of course you could try an SPU…

 

[L0rdGwyn]

Of course you could try an SPU…

Nah I am all turntabled out for a while! I have to finish preparing a DIY amplifier project, finish design and build a new NOS DAC, I have another amplifier I want to build too assuming the guy who makes the transformers will build them for me...

Probably the next vinyl project for me would be an LCR tube phono. I actually have an entire design done, just need to pull the trigger.

 

[CJG888]

I can’t remember if I shared the latest episode in the Dual 1019 saga:

Now featuring the homemade “ultimate 1019 cartridge”:

Generator from a 1970s Shure M44MG cartridge (minus body)
Cocobolo wood body from Stanley Engineering
Plenty of cyanoacrylate for potting
JICO N44-7 nude conical stylus

 

[Strat1117]

Well done, my foot fault remedy was suspended Not to be confused with my drivers license condition

I use Walker cones, but truthfully, this tt, despite its lack of a traditional suspension, is fairly impervious to footfalls.

 

[CJG888]

I use Walker cones, but truthfully, this ty, despite its lack of a traditional suspension, is fairly impervious to footfalls.

Interesting. Maybe I should try them under my SME10. Where did you get them?

Presumably they replace the sorbothane hemispheres?

 

[George Hincapie]

Finally finished the overhaul of my Thorens TD 125 MKII.

Here's everything I've done to it:

-New walnut plinth
-Sorane TA-1 tonearm
-New custom Corian armboard
-Replaced rubber washers in the suspension
-Replaced suspension adjustment cups
-New balanced 5-pin DIN to dual 3-pin XLR tonearm cable
-New aluminum face plate (cuing switch removed as it was no longer functional with the new tonearm)
-Replaced electrolytic caps on the speed controller
-Polished the platter

Still even more I could do, but time to stop for now!

Very nice! Would you like to refurbish mine?

 

[L0rdGwyn]

Very nice! Would you like to refurbish mine?

Thanks! Sorry I have too many projects going on to take on more work.

 

[Strat1117]

Interesting. Maybe I should try them under my SME10. Where did you get them?

Presumably they replace the sorbothane hemispheres?

They defeat the sorbothane hemispheres because they are so much taller. They go against the aluminum base, in the spaces between the sorbothane hemispheres, which you can still see in the photo if you look closely.

I have them at least 20 years - bought a buch of Walker cones and discs second hand on audiogon from a guy closing up a studio. I am fairly sure Lloyd esker is still in business but, imho, new they are prohibitively expensive, and I don’t know that they’d work any better than Mapleshade cones, which used to be much more reasonably priced. Sonically, the changes are exactly what you’d expect going from sorbothane to brass cones - faster, punchier, a little lighter on its feet.

Good luck!

YMMV, just my $.03, etc., ad nauseum

 

[Podster]

I recently got to go with friends who are heading up the new Klipsch museum in Hope AR. The plan is to have several set ups in different rooms of the house it’s being setup in. Brought my Cambridge Receiver and PHO phono pre to drive a pair of Heresy’s. I set up the vpi Player table (plug and play almost) LOL and the other three set up the sweet vpi Prime with it’s trick arm.

Hopefully once it’s opened tons of people who love audio history make it by

 

[Strayngs]