Thanks again Michael... Just finished watching. Love. The bit about the dog world. The few carts and cables I kept all do amazing synergy in my system. As for digital I agree.. I feel the RTR with tube is best to my taste now. Taking digital to tape does indeed smooth out things for my ears. But hey.. It is what it is.. Merci Beaucoup Monsieur

The moment I heard a cable work its magic during playback, I knew it was better. Going back to what I was using previously was objectively worse. Then putting the better cable back brought the same level of improvement. Anyone who says cables don’t make a difference is not being truthful. The cables you use seem pretty enormous and that might be a challenge, but if you have the resources and they release the system from the limitations that hold music reproduction back, it’s worth using them. Mains cables, interconnects and speaker cables all make a difference.

Thanks Michael. I thoroughly enjoyed this talk. I’ve had many MM phono carts over the years, mostly budget or lower mid priced offerings, but I recently acquired a Shure V15 type III, on a donated turntable, complete with original Shure 35HE stylus. It sounded pretty good after a few hours, but just last week I replaced that stylus with a new Jico SAS-B and wow. I’m hooked.

Loved every second! Plus, a trip down memory lane. In 2011 or so, a pipe broke. In the room were 700 ~ 1000 radio station promo records in crates (long story) from the 60's to late 70's, most still in shrink wrap. Others were barely played. I had shoeboxes of Shure cartridges in aluminum and wood presentation boxes, and lots of the green (pretty sure they were green) body Grado's, which I assume were cheapos- all given to me- and many in the original packaging. Also, 7 or 8 Dual and Thorens turntables, and one Shure (prototype?) with magnetic platter bearings- yes, it levitated! I don't think it ever went to market. After the water incident, I loaded all of it into a dumpster. Yes, I did. It pains me deeply now. The memory was triggered by your Ortofon story, except I guessed vinyl was dead. Sigh. I'm an EE. Interconnect cables was a heavy lift. I got the math, but it was a so what- until I did the rental thing. When I now have a 'gentleperson's' discussion, I suggest that they try toeing their speakers- one or both- in or out about 1/4 to 1/2". If they can hear that, then they WILL hear a cable. They also go away and I get some peace. I will now send them to this video. Heh, heh, heh... Power cables made perfect sense to me. Component power supplies have an 'impedance frequency response', and designer's go to great lengths to get that right (it should be zero at all frequencies, but that's not possible). The nature of the input power transformer- among other things- puts that supply impedance in parallel with the impedance of your power line. And it can make a whopping difference! Of course, when the designer's fiddled with the supply, it was heavily influenced by THEIR power line or whatever stuff they are using to decouple the same. No matter how you slice it, it makes you crazy.

Excellent 😊

Len Gregory was my go to for stylus replacement

I wish you would have spoke about DENON MC carts. but this video is very informative and I enjoyed learning about the Shure carts, an ol friend bought the (type3 V15, i beleive)when it hit the market and it was a beauty and sounded fantastic. Thanks again for your time.

I have the Amazon Basics cable unfortunately... Matter for fact is that not all of us have the budget to spend hundreds on one cable.. while I do wish to upgrade... I can't.. not yet anyway. It's a "has to do" situation for me currently.

I have a NOS Shure Stylus from the late 50's and it's in a box similar to what a nice ring would come in.

This video is quite a feat. Grab your favourite drink/snack, sit back and enjoy. Make sure you have plenty of time to watch it and that all your chores are finished beforehand.

Micheal would you or do you use some of theses vintage cartridges sometimes? Would be nice to compare them to some of todays high end ones

Supex is my cartridge of choice. I like the SDX1000.

Nice cartridge collection. I own few ones. But far away from these.

My most niche cartridge is the Promethean Green.

you could get 2 Shure V15II for a $100 no tax at J&R

So if you can’t remove the stylus from a MC Cartridge, when the stylus wears out you toss the whole cartridge?

As a shoe size denier incarnate, this rubs me the wrong way!!! 😀 The only thing I don’t like about vinyl that it’s so damn expensive (media, TT that competes with modest digital). One day when my system, room and power is all sorted, I’ll get into vinyl for real - if I can still hear and afford it by then 😅

Please put me in your will!

I have a very large collection of socks. 😮😊 I should do a video like this 😊

I have on pet peeve and that's thick cables that look like they come from a power station and should be 100's of feet underground. I just hate them. Cost no problem diameter yes a very big problem!!!

I have a cartridge

moving iron?

67.00 dollars thats only a half gram

What no SPU😊

so the ground goes into a box , so it eventually ends up grounded ... you got mugged

What kind of cartridge collection is this? All these weird cartridges and not even a single proper SPU

I have the Cello version of the Red Rose Miyabi cart. Overrated. I don't understand the cult following.

1:32 LOL you left a smidge :)