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I have a spare Graham 2.2 arm that I would like to mount on that arm pod! I think the two would be a great combination.
You've read about the uncanny performance of X1 with many types of popular music and with some music not so popular. But the very thing that makes that possible also causes its shortcomings.A stylus/cantilever responds to a groove modulation with only one response at a time. It is a series of these responses that make up the continual cantilever vibrations which excite the generator. If that response is emphasizing one aspect like bass/midrange dynamics, it's likely that another aspect gets shortchanged. I think that's exactly what happens, but you probably won't hear it with Tracy Chapman, ZZ Top or even Fathead Newman or Red Rodney. I did manage to get the Tete records sounding half decent, but half is as far as it goes. Harmonics and tonal complexity are subjugated, while the strengths of the X1 sound a little absurd here. I can get many "normal" MM's sounding excellent on these and similar recordings, so I think there's a tradeoff. I'm also guessing that's why the X1 was never cart of the month. I must say though, on many recordings the X1 sounds great and could be one of your funnest, favoritist carts.neo
Please don't think my last post was condescending. I listen to rock sometimes.There's an interesting thread on Agon about MC loading:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1424065925&&&/Cartridge-impedance-loading-questionPoster Lewm got a vintage Ortofon MC2000 cart. This is the predecessor to the MC3000 which Jonathan Carr mentioned as a memorable coreless model.Output is 0.05mV !! Better have some gain.Others on that coreless list are the Sony XL-88 and Yamaha MC-1000, Fidelity Research FR-7, JVC L-1000, Benz Micro Ruby, Denon DL-1000A, Hiphonic MC-D15, Nagaoka/Jeweltone JT RII and JTR3. The Sony XL-55 and the MC-9 are also coreless I believe. The DL-S1 is coreless, and I think the 304 as well.There's another thread about the ART9, the higher output version of the ART7. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1424885270&&&/Audio-Technica-AT-ART9-phono-cartridgeneo
Way to go Halcro! I run mine at 100K and load with only what the cables provide !