On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 13:17:47 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 23:31:14 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:50:43 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

I think there is some onus on the user to pick a suitable
tonearm/cartridge
combination for his own purposes or stick with manufacturer's
recommendations in the case of 'consumer' gear. It is important to keep
a
perspective - over the last half century or so a lot of people have had
a
lot of pleasure listening to records without getting their panties in a
bunch* over the Modulus Of Anything!!

Ah, but all that has only been possible because some engineer did get
his panties in a bunch. If nobody had, it would all be crap.



Other way round - the engineer (cartridge designer) only does his stuff -
almost certainly with completely unruffled underwear -
because of the people listening to records - no?


Chicken and egg? No, in this case it is very definitely engineer
first, listener second.



Read it again (as you would say) and see the words 'cartridge engineer' -
people were listening to records long before cartridges were invented.

(This is a *cartridge* thread... ;-)



Yes, but nobody got to listen to a cartridge play a record before an
engineer had sweated over it. Apart from the engineer himself, of
course. That goes for any product, of course. First you do the design
and engineering, then people get to use it. Can't be any other way,
really.

d