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In Reply to: MM vs MC is MC THAT much better? posted by MannyE on December 29, 2016 at 05:54:12:
And its aggravated by the matching problem. In any sort of MM versus MC comparison, all things are NEVER EQUAL! That being said, when I had a lot of money (ahh, I yearn for those long-gone, halcyon days) and could experiment with a lot of different setups, I found I was able to obtain quite a significant improvement in what the golden-ears call "transparency" (I think) and image quality and stability using a good Denon DL-103D (shibata) MC, settling on an expensive (Quicksilver) step-up transformer. This combo versus a variety of pretty good MM's I'd been juggling. THe comparison is bogus, to such a huge degree, because when a Bear shells out $500 for an SUT, he's gonna' hear some damn improvement (the Extra-strength Placeboes! ) and somewhere beyond the point of diminishing returns, surely.
I was convinced enough to try a number of expensive MC's and a variety of step-ups through the ensuing years, you know- The Holy Grail thing. My most recent MC is a Dynavector XX-I and it sounds damn fine through my pretty little Pass Forte preamp- just the right gain. But I am listening exclusively now to an ADC XLM and just enjoying the music from it's juicy, lively little moving magnets!
If I had it to do over again I'd have spent all that moving-coil money on a records, drinkin' and carryin'-on instead of hi-fi gear and just kept my very first cart, an Acutex M-320 III STR (shibata) MM. It was , upon reflection, "GOOD ENOUGH."
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Follow Ups
- Yeah, it's an impossible comparison - mr.bear 12/30/1613:38:57 12/30/16 (4)
- Acute cartridge - vinyl survivor 19:12:00 12/30/16 (0)
- RE: Yeah, it's an impossible comparison - MannyE 14:48:39 12/30/16 (0)
- RE: Yeah, it's an impossible comparison - Kindablue 14:19:41 12/30/16 (0)
- +1 :-) - bare 14:05:03 12/30/16 (0)
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