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  1. Wray & Ting

    Microline distortion in Creed Taylor (CTI) records

    This is a two-pronged question; let me set the stage. I've been exclusively playing / recording vinyl with a microline AT-VM95ML cartridge that I upgraded to in July 2020 (from an elliptical Clearaudio Concept MM v1). It's been great. I made the change because of inner groove distortion present...
  2. VanishCave

    Pre-echo (and post?) showing up with a new elliptical stylus

    I recently upgraded to an elliptical stylus and now I am hearing a new type of noise on several of my records I hadn't heard before. It basically sounds like a faint and distorted echo of whatever is playing on the adjacent grooves. From what I have researched so far, this might be pre-echo...
  3. Multiplex

    Pfanstiehl/Sanyo MG-09E Elliptical Cartridge Review

    The MG-09E cartridge gets brought up from time to time in budget cartridge threads, but no one really seems to really know or comment much about it. What are it’s tip dimensions? How does it sound? How does it track? What is it’s recommended VTF, even? I haven’t found very much at all, besides a...
  4. Hugh Mongous

    Stylus Comparison: Jico Elliptical vs. Tonar Hyper-Elliptical in Shure V15-III

    [EDIT] Added links to uncompressed audio files When looking for a new stylus I found a lot of discussion about Elliptical vs. Hyper-Elliptical vs. Shibata vs. SAS etc. But no real evidence of the differences between the lot. Especially between cheap round/elliptical styli and the step up to a...
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