Arny Krueger wrote:
"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message

Just posting to let people know that audiomisc.co.uk now
includes a web version of the 4th article in my recent
HFN series on LP. This one provides measured results for
the old Shure V15/III and compares it with some modern MM
carts. Also has some close up photos of each stylus, etc.

With no exact link, it took me about 5 minutes to actually find the page.
:-(

The URL is http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/LP4/NewLampsForOld.html

Once there, it was an interesting read. No surprise, the Shures had far
better technical performance than the rest.

I'm kinda surprised you didn't try to find the optimal load for the
cartridges.

Here are some tests I did some years back. Not nearly as thorough or as
rigorous, but similar results insofar as they can be compared:

http://www.pcavtech.com/play-rec/rega-2/index.htm .

Other published LP tests are hard to find, but I did find this:

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/featu...rts-6---8.html

There are also some postings of test record transcriptions at

http://delback.co.uk/turntable_tests/

For grins, you might try to extract some frequency response information from
them.



The Linn Sondek in that last link has the most fearsome wow (about 0.3%
RMS) - bad enough to be a real fault, I think. Frequency responses are
all over the place too - about 9dB slope from low to high.

d