AUDIOPHILE MAN - HiFi REVIEW
Segno’s £999 Maya MC uses 5N silver coils, Samarium Cobalt magnet & a titanium cantilever.
Fights £2k cartridges on clarity alone.
Bold. Focused. Different.
Click: https://theaudiophileman.com/maya-moving-coil-from-segno/
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AUDIOPHILE MAN - HiFi REVIEW
This is a V2.0 of my van den Hul Crimson Elite XGW cartridge review. The original had some B-roll issues so I did the decent thing and re-edited it. I also added some extra signage.
Click: https://youtu.be/stkra2gPxe4
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AUDIOPHILE MAN - HiFi REVIEW
Testing the van den Hul Crimson Elite XGW. 
Low mass, huge dynamic reach and startling midrange clarity.
 Set it up right and it sings.
Click: https://youtu.be/GX4IvaGlZTU
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AUDIOPHILE MAN - HiFi NEWS: SEGNO MAYA MC CARTRIDGE
The Segno Maya is a new moving coil cartridge featuring silver coils within and mounted on a square permalloy former. Click: https://theaudiophileman.com/segno-maya-mc-cartridge/ #cartridge #turntable #vinyl #hifi #news #audiophile #movingcoil

I'm sure others have done this, but it's worth mentioning to those who might not have as it offers up results that I've not been able to achieve with any other method. I've laser cut a 295mm dia disc from 2mm thick PTFE, lasered the 7.25mm pilot hole and using it in place of an LP, it's exceptionally good for setting anti-skate. It's no secret that the values on most tonearms with adjustable anti-skate aren't even remotely close, but this method allows you to set for absolute neutrality with no bias whatsoever. I've used this on all 3 turntables now with excellent result. Very much worth doing for anyone so inclined. Works much better than the typical blank section of test/setup LP's. The ultralow friction nature of PTFE is handy here.
Note: this left no residue at all on the actual stylus, though I gave it a quick brush when finished.

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#Antiskate

Was taking a closer look at a couple of my styli.. Looks like the one on the right (for a Pickering XV15, has a chunk missing.. quite strange that. The one on the left is from a SkyAnalog (utterly superb cartridge BTW..

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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... The Fantastic "New" Microtest 80. A lovely Italian designed miniature pocket analogue multimeter of the mid 1970s.

I had to fix the sticking needle, and now works perfectly.

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[10/01/2020]

Edge-Mounted Meters Give This Retro Frequency Counter Six Decades of Display

With regard to retro test gear, one's thoughts tend to those Nixie-adorned instruments of yore, or the boat-anchor oscilloscopes that came with their own carts simply because there was no other way to move the things. But there were other looks for test gear back in the day, as this frequency counter with a readout using moving-coil meters shows.

We have to admit to never seeing anything like [Charles Ouweland]'s Van Der Heem 9908 electronic counter before. The Netherlands-based company, which was later acquired by Philips, built this six-digit, 1-MHz counter sometime in the 1950s. The display uses six separate edge-mounted panel meters numbered 0 through 9 to show the frequency of the incoming signal. The video below has a demo of what the instrument can do; we don't know if it was restored at some point, but it still works and it's actually pretty accurate. Later in the video, he gives a tour of the insides, which is the real treat -- the case opens like a briefcase and contains over 20 separate PCBs with a bunch of germanium transistors, all stitched together with point-to-point wiring.

We appreciate the look inside this unique piece of test equipment history. It almost seems like something that would have been on the bench while this Apollo-era IO tester was being prototyped.

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