Recently two new MC cartridges from Rega, what about the future of their MM range ?
Why wouldn't they continue to make MM carts?
More profit letting employees make MC ?
It is unfortunate that Rega doesn't introduce boron for cantilever material until the very TOTL Aphelion.
No cartridge over say £200 should carry an elliptical stylus in 2020.
I did, and don't.I disagree. There are pros and cons to all stylus shapes and they are only one of the factors which define the sound. I think buyers should have choices in where they want the compromises made and what sort of sound they want. The DL103 has a conical stylus, it's a very popular cartridge and if you live with one you can understand why.
I think low quality/crude stylus profiles are what is responsible for the people who miss "the warmth of vinyl", if that's what some people like then fair enough.
Yes, but it's a bit disparaging to say it that way don't you think? I'd be more positive about it. Music is not just about detail retrieval. Most people do not listen to music on hi-resolution Hi-Fi systems yet vinyl was the dominant music format covering all of what I consider to be the best and most important period in rock and pop music development. I don't think that's just a coincidence. Vinyl works. Or at least it can. If you sanitise it too much to can lose the organic feeling that made it so great in the first place.
There is nothing 'wrong' with simpler stylus shapes. They are less affected by alignment and poor vinyl and will often just get the music out of whatever you put under them. The DL103 was designed for broadcast use and has a conical stylus for a reason.
Thats what gets me as well, when most people had crap record players, with a ''needle'' you turned to go from lp's and 45's to 78's has somehow become the ''sound'' of vinyl. It was crap then, and it has not changed. It was that bad even cassette tape challenged it.It's the implication that this is how all vinyl sounds that I don't like, the warm and diffuse sound that some oldies miss from back in the day isn't solely down to music being on vinyl, it's how it is played back.
Thats what gets me as well, when most people had crap record players, with a ''needle'' you turned to go from lp's and 45's to 78's has somehow become the ''sound'' of vinyl. It was crap then, and it has not changed. It was that bad even cassette tape challenged it.
Thats what gets me as well, when most people had crap record players, with a ''needle'' you turned to go from lp's and 45's to 78's has somehow become the ''sound'' of vinyl. It was crap then, and it has not changed.
...... with Wang-Chung hyper metrabolox styluses!
Sure, we have more sophisticated turntables today but I think it's a mistake to say that there is no merit simpler systems. It's worth remembering that no one in the seventies, not the artists or producers, heard their recordings played back in the way that is possible today. The technology didn't exist. Which makes a bit of a mockery of the idea that today we are hearing more of what the artist intended! Yes, we are hearing more, and it can be great, but it can also be that we are hearing more 'pixels' that were never intended to be revealed.