Pio1980
AK Member
The stylus cantilever sticks straight out of it's baseplate, and handling the assembly to unmount and mount into the cart can cause the assembly to flip, bending/ breaking the exposed cantilever on the baseplate.
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cocovinyl176
Active Member
gotcha. thank you
J. Rob
Member
Question....why is the .5 mil conical so rare? I had my AT95EX retipped with a nude .5 and been listening to it for about a year now. To me it sounds better than every elliptical I've had. Also, shouldn't this shape last longer than a .3 or .2 elliptical? It seems like a good choice for an "all purpose" stylus
Pio1980
AK Member
Works well on Denon DL-103 LOMC.
Pio1980
AK Member
I recall 0.5 mil on the standard '103.
Pio1980
AK Member
I've seen the 0.5 mil in print, I assume then your information to be accurate and the other figure incorrect. 0.65 mil is closer to the industry standard 0.7 mil and seems right.
lini
just me...
Pio: Well, the specs from the Denon museum say so and the specs from Denon's DL-103 and DL-103S brochure over on VE also say so. And I've just looked: The specs from that Japanese database (20cheaddatabase...) say so, too. Hence I'd indeed deem those 0.65 mil accurate.
Back in the day there used to be quite few Japanese cart models with 0.5 mil conical tip, though. But it seems like pretty much the only one, that has survived, would be the Sumiko Black Pearl as successor of the old Coral 555-SX.
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
Back in the day there used to be quite few Japanese cart models with 0.5 mil conical tip, though. But it seems like pretty much the only one, that has survived, would be the Sumiko Black Pearl as successor of the old Coral 555-SX.
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
ripblade
Addicted Member
Reduced tip mass.
Pio1980
AK Member
Yes, but other than the same tracing resolution as it's spherical twin, does it address "pinch effect" as well as a true biradial elliptical tip?
ripblade
Addicted Member
Well, I believe it might help at the extreme ends of tip excursion, and possibly limit the spread of the wear patch. Mostly, I think the bevels are the first step to shaping a biradial out of a conical, the rest being the degree of polishing. Don't know about pinch effect... doubtful at the most inner grooves.
ripblade
Addicted Member
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to infer from that... I know what pinch effect is. I don't believe the typical elliptical is much help in reducing it. The hyper-elliptic/fine lines make a noticeable improvement in that area, in my experience.
ripblade
Addicted Member
What's wrong with that?
J. Rob
Member
A .7 mil conical can't read as much high frequency detail as a line contact or microline. But I'm assuming that a .2 .x .7 "elliptical" will still have less THD than a .7 mil within it's frequency range due to its lower tip mass
lini
just me...
I don't think, that one can correctly regard common ellipticals merely as "shaved conicals" with an otherwise completely identical contact patch. Maybe that applied to some some very cheap elliptical replacement needles, but otherweise I don't think the smaller minor radii were just fake.
Greetings from Munich!
Manfred / lini
