Show us your cartridges and/or tonearms!

[kcc123]

My aluminium body Denon 103R:-

 

[poppachubby]

Nagaoka MP-200 on Stanton H4S / Pioneer PL-41 arm...not the greatest pic.

 

[the_nines]

Here's one of mine:

Cart: Benz Ref3

Sweet!

 

[Jody Thornton]

African Blackwood cart/FG11 Gyger Ruby on a Grace G-727 Gyro Master arm spinning on a 301 Garrard grease bearing motor unit.

Very, very impressive gears and photography out of this world, gents.

@cactuscowboy

My compliments to you for showing that beautiful woody unipivot. Very stylish and fine workmanship.

tripod

The stylus cantilever height seems to stay in place on yours. Is that only because it tracks so low? I have only seen that on a P-Mount cart 25 years ago, on my brother-in-laws Technics LT table. I track at 1.75g at the most, and yet, on my carts, the cantilever always squishes up into the crtridge body. I know that's OK, and they track fine, but I've always wondered how you can get a cantilever to maintain a nice slope like that even while playing.

 

[Descartridge]

My aluminium body Denon 103R:-

These are beautiful, skilled photos.

 

[Tripod]

The stylus cantilever height seems to stay in place on yours. Is that only because it tracks so low? I have only seen that on a P-Mount cart 25 years ago, on my brother-in-laws Technics LT table. I track at 1.75g at the most, and yet, on my carts, the cantilever always squishes up into the crtridge body. I know that's OK, and they track fine, but I've always wondered how you can get a cantilever to maintain a nice slope like that even while playing.

Hi Jody

The cantilever has been set at 28 degrees without any mistracking at all. The cart also has a totally different, supple suspension system - the usual mono filament suspension wire has been replaced with a fine, stranded cable.

tripod

 

[bigaltx24]

How about a Grado Red on a Linn Basik.

 

[fmueller]

Great photography! How did you get those shots? And, don't you have dust in your house?

Thanks! I have been into photography for longer than I have been into audio. For the shots above, I used a Canon Rebel XT DSLR camera with a Canon EF 100/2.8 macro lens on a tripod. I might have put in some extra dusting effort before taking those shots

 

[jimreeves]

Luxman TA-1 derivative arm on a PD-277. AT7V cart with AT440ML stylus.

 

[MrIgotNomoney]

My favorite cart...

TD 124, SME 3009 metal knifes and the Ortofon.
A marrige made in heaven.

bob

 

[BHamm]

Couple pics of my newly re-tipped (Soundsmith) Clearaudio Aurum Alph MkII.

 

[jleon92f]

Perhaps the most interesting would be a recently completed DIY oak unipivot, with a Grado Platinum Reference cartridge. This was my first attempt at building a tonearm and the results are outstanding, from a listening/sound quality standpoint.

There's a continuous run of Cardas tonearm wire from cartridge to RCA jacks. The pivot is a jewel quality stainless steel with matching sapphire vee bearing. Adjustable overhang, VTA, VTF, but no antiskate installed yet. Effective length 12". Pivot point is level with surface of record on platter. Pivot point and stylus tip are at equal distance from center of tonearm wand. The counterweight is adjustable up-down in relation to the tonearm, so I can fine-tune center of gravity.

I do plan on building more DIY unipivots and refining the design.

You are very talented! Beautiful job...:thmbsp:
Patent office...:scratch2:

sounds_great by jleon92f, on Flickr

AT3600 on my SL-1700...Sounds fantastic.

Thanks,
John.

 

[kcc123]

These are beautiful, skilled photos.

Hi,
Thank you for your comment! I still consider myself a learner as there is so much to learn in photography.

 

[kcc123]

Empire 2000E mk4

 

[davidro]

Couple pics of my newly re-tipped (Soundsmith) Clearaudio Aurum Alph MkII.

How does re-tipping affect the sound, if at any?

 

[davidro]

Empire 2000E mk4

That's one elegant cartridge coupled with great photography :thmbsp:

 

[hags]

Sorry for the dumb question. Is Syntec the name of the arm? There were two stations I worked at that used these arms on the Technics SP-25 table. I wanted to identify these arms.

Yes, they were manufactured under a few names, Syntec S 220 and the Japan Piezo PU-402 to name just two.

 

[the keester]

nice pics

 

[RickB]

Benz H2O:

Shure M-3D on Pioneer PL-41:

A bunch of cartridges and my Micro Seki BL-51/ATP-12T combo just hanging around:

 

[RickB]

Grado Blue: