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From: schley@mmm.UUCP (Steve Schley)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: My damn (new) cartridge don`t work! Was it something that I said?
Message-ID: <197@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 11:17:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmm.197
Posted: Mon Sep 30 11:17:50 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 08:03:39 EDT
References: <3204@teklabs.UUCP> <474@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: schley@mmm.UUCP (Steve Schley)
Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn.
Lines: 36
Summary: 

In article <474@aero.ARPA> cline@aero.UUCP (Ken Cline) writes:
>None of my audiophile friends, or salesmen in better stores like Sure
>cartridges.  When one customer complained about his $700 koetsu mistracking,
>the salesman replied, with obvious sarcasm, "You could have bough a Sure."

First, spell it correctly:  SHURE.

I, too, have experienced this phenomenon among my audiophile friends.
I attribute it to the attitude that anything from a mass-market
manufacturer has to sound like _____ (fill in the blank).

This is just one of the many highly-contagious audiophile diseases.
(Before I get flamed, I must admit that I probably suffer from many
myself!)  These attitudes are very comfortable to hang on to, and very
painful to lose.

A few years back, our local club (The Audio Society of Minnesota)
decided to test a few cartridges.  A local recording engineer supplied
some of his master tapes, his tape deck, and some LPs made from these
very master tapes.  We chose four cartridges, including the Shure V15
type 4 and the Dynavector Diamond.  One at a time, a cartridge was set
up on an Oracle table, and we double-blinded between the master tape
and its vinyl progeny.

The Shure won overwhelmingly.  Many certified (-: golden-ears were
dismayed (to say the least).

My point is not that the Shure is the best.  I'm merely saying that
these cartridges deserve more attention than they get among high-enders.
>
>Ken Cline	Cline@Aerospace.ARPA

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	Steve Schley

	ihnp4!mmm!schley


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