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Finally dove into the MC pool... WOW

Morgan D said:
Oh no , I would never mean that. I just thought the Table was a thing of beauty in its aesthetic resonance.[I knew I would get to use that phrase some day on this site LOL]. And that day is TODAY !!
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Thanks much, years & years of wanting one, and even a couple of years looking for the right specimen…

The table is actually waiting for it’s intended tonearm, a new brass Alfred Bokrand 12” AB 309 Banana arm…then the Gray will go back to it’s home on a Fairchild 412…
 
StepheK said:
I'm using a homebrewed EAR834 tube pre, that works with MM only, driving a 300B amp and after trying a few MM carts was super happy with the AT VM540ML.

Well I finally dove in, got an MC cart and a SUT box from Ned Clayton using those cinemag transformers. Hooked this up to an AT 0C9MXL, and after finding the right combination of turns ratio switches for this cart, I am stunned. I'm hearing stuff I didn't even know was there, I can hear individual voices in the chorus sections. The delicacy of the high end is.. again shocking is the only word I can come up with. Still has great bass and smooth mids without being fatiguing, and I'm sure after some hours of breaking it, it's just gonna get better.

So yeah, it was worth the $1000 price of admission. BTW this is on a Technics SL-B2 belt drive table. Don't let people tell you a table in this class can't benefit from a good cart. I am gonna keep the VM540ML around for less than pristine vinyl, but I'm sold on MC being the way to go.
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MC's have low moving mass, since tiny coils weigh much less than attached magnetic material in an MM cart or iron in a variable reluctance cart would have. With such a light weight on the cantilever, it can trace delicate tracings with ease, and you get to hear more detail.
 
egellings said:
MC's have low moving mass, since tiny coils weigh much less than attached magnetic material in an MM cart or iron in a variable reluctance cart would have. With such a light weight on the cantilever, it can trace delicate tracings with ease, and you get to hear more detail.
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Was true in the early days but hasn’t been since the late 70s. It’s a mixed bag while the lowest ETM cart was produced more than four decades ago and is an MM.
 
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adnick said:
The Garrard 301 is a pure idler, but the Fairchild is a 2 belt design, motor belt drives an intermediate pulley an another belt drives the heavy platter. I’m partial to idlers, but have at least one of each common drive type(s)

Here’s the Fairchild

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Love the woodwork!
 
Strumbringer said:
Thanks- a quick internet search says the effective mass of my tone arm, Kenwood KD770d, is 17.5g. Do specific carts provide specs of what mass tone arms they require?
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https://www.gcaudio.com/tips-tricks/tonearm-cartridge-compatability/

Go the graph at the bottom of the page. Article explains the nomenclature used.

I like resonance between 8-10Hz. For my setup, it gives the best bass with no rumble issues. I use a test record, to find the actual resonance.
 
egellings said:
Before you jump in, note that the stylus on an MC cart is not generally user replaceable, so the whole cart has to be removed and either retipped or replaced. With MM carts, styli are usually user replaceable.
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I will note than on my good MM carts, a new stylus is within about $20 of just replacing the whole cart.
 
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