Oregon Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) The moving coil cartridge adventure has been in full swing over here for over two decades. During the 70's/80's. constantly changing equipment , cartridges were early on mostly Shure, discovered Empire, followed by the Micro Acoustics 2002. The MA was a FANTASTIC moving magnet cartridge. Looking back the MA was stupid close to sounding like a moving coil cart. 20yrs past I started gathering MC carts; some Adcom, Alpha Genesis 1000, Alpha Genesis 2000, Kiseki Purple Heart, Hana ML, Hana Red, Lyra Delos. A pic of the Kiseki failure included. Shame, as the cart sounded superior to any other I'd heard. Edited June 6 by Oregon Ooops for the pic orientation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holmz Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) Can one of those services repair ^it^? Is there any values in using a brass screws to mount the cart to the headshell? Edited June 6 by Holmz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delkat Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 I have a Purple Heart, Umami Red and Verismo. I really like the Umami Red for the money. The Purple Heart sounds pretty good too. The Verismo sounds good at medium volume but it doesn’t have the punch at higher volumes that the Umami Red does due to the 0.2mV output that my AR Ref 3SE doesn’t seem to like. I still want to get a Lyra MC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomicTime Posted June 7 Share Posted June 7 Current arsenal is Koetsu - Urishi Black, Kuzma - CAR 40, Dynavector- 17D3, Signet - TK 9ea, Grace / Soundsmith- F9 Ruby OCL. I recently thinned the herd of a Lyra Delos which is a wonderful $2K cartridge IMO. To the OP seek out help from VAS to get your Kiseki up n running again. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delkat Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 I’m thinking about selling off the Verismo to make room for a Lyra. I assume you sell carts the same way you sell other gear using on of the used gear sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gsal Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 9 hours ago, Delkat said: I’m thinking about selling off the Verismo to make room for a Lyra. I assume you sell carts the same way you sell other gear using on of the used gear sites. I own a Lyra Etna Lambda used with my AMG Viella TT and 12" arm. Phono preamp is a Channel D Lino C. I am very happy with my purchases. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC-93 Posted June 14 Share Posted June 14 Great bang for the buck is a vintage Denon DL-160. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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