nkorah
Active Member
Hi,
A bit of background:
I'm listening with an upgraded Lenco L78 with two arms:
On the original arm I'm switching between a Grado Prestige Gold1 and a Denon DL103. It works great an I'm happy with it.
The other arm is the Black Widow, which I bought to satisfy my Ultra-Low-Mass fetish
I've installed a Grado Reference Platinum1 on the widow, after calculating resonance and reading online reviews. well - it doesn't fit well :sigh:
60-70% of the time it sings, and rocks and plays, but as soon as the record face is a little imperfect - it's heard, Inner-grove distortion is obvious, and the arm (and cart) miss-trek imperfections through which the other arm cruses with barely a click.
My gut feeling is that the Reference Platinum1 is just a bit heavy and stiff for such a light arm (3 gr'!).
I did this, to prove to myself that with a little bit more weight and resonance absorption - it will work. and it does!
Which proves the problem - not present the solution.
Than I thought about the cartridge the arm arrived with - a Grado G2 (without stylus) it's a 4.5 gr' cart which was 45cu when young.
Do you think it will hold a Grado 8MZ stylus? Do you think it will work with the Widow? I'm not thrilled on spending 120-130$ for a test. Neither I'm thrilled to go the Stenton 881 Jico way.
Thanks!
A bit of background:
I'm listening with an upgraded Lenco L78 with two arms:
On the original arm I'm switching between a Grado Prestige Gold1 and a Denon DL103. It works great an I'm happy with it.
The other arm is the Black Widow, which I bought to satisfy my Ultra-Low-Mass fetish
I've installed a Grado Reference Platinum1 on the widow, after calculating resonance and reading online reviews. well - it doesn't fit well :sigh:
60-70% of the time it sings, and rocks and plays, but as soon as the record face is a little imperfect - it's heard, Inner-grove distortion is obvious, and the arm (and cart) miss-trek imperfections through which the other arm cruses with barely a click.
My gut feeling is that the Reference Platinum1 is just a bit heavy and stiff for such a light arm (3 gr'!).
I did this, to prove to myself that with a little bit more weight and resonance absorption - it will work. and it does!
Which proves the problem - not present the solution.
Than I thought about the cartridge the arm arrived with - a Grado G2 (without stylus) it's a 4.5 gr' cart which was 45cu when young.
Do you think it will hold a Grado 8MZ stylus? Do you think it will work with the Widow? I'm not thrilled on spending 120-130$ for a test. Neither I'm thrilled to go the Stenton 881 Jico way.
Thanks!