There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500 moving
magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

It has been suggested to me that umless I am willing to spend £500+ on a
pickup cartridge, I would do better to stick to the moving magnet ones
rather than a moving coil one. Would anyone dispute this?


--
Michael Chare

In article , Michael Chare
wrote:
There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

Afraid not.

It has been suggested to me that umless I am willing to spend £500+ on a
pickup cartridge, I would do better to stick to the moving magnet ones
rather than a moving coil one. Would anyone dispute this?

You would perhaps need to define "do better" first. :-)

However, speaking personally, I would rather choose a decent MM design than
spend fortunes of an expensive MC that may not track better, etc. I
recently tried the Orthofon M2 Black

results on http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/HFN/LP4/NewLampsForOld.html

Personally, if I had to buy a new cartridge right now I'd be likely to
choose one of those - although I would experiment with loading.

Some of the Goldring and Audio Technica designs may also be worth
considering. But I have not tried them myself, so can't comment.

Slainte,

Jim

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"Michael Chare"

There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

** Think you are mistaken.

Elite Electronics ( ie Max Townshend ) of the UK made the EEI cartridges.

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/townshend.shtml



...... Phil

"Phil Allison" wrote in message
...

"Michael Chare"

There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

** Think you are mistaken.

Elite Electronics ( ie Max Townshend ) of the UK made the EEI cartridges.

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/townshend.shtml



..... Phil


Thanks for the replies. I based my origninal post on this article:

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...+500+cartridge

--
Michael Chare

"Michael Chare"
"Phil Allison"
"Michael Chare"

There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

** Think you are mistaken.

Elite Electronics ( ie Max Townshend ) of the UK made the EEI cartridges.

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/townshend.shtml



Thanks for the replies. I based my origninal post on this article:

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...+500+cartridge


** The article say the EEI cartridge was made in Japan.

There is no mention of an " EEI Australia".



...... Phil

"Phil Allison" wrote in message
...

"Michael Chare"
"Phil Allison"
"Michael Chare"

There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

** Think you are mistaken.

Elite Electronics ( ie Max Townshend ) of the UK made the EEI
cartridges.

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/townshend.shtml



Thanks for the replies. I based my origninal post on this article:

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...+500+cartridge


** The article say the EEI cartridge was made in Japan.

There is no mention of an " EEI Australia".


To quote from a label inside the original package:

"Manufactured in Japan to exact specifications for I.E.E. Australia"



--
Michael Chare

"Michael Chare"
"Phil Allison"
"Michael Chare"

There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

** Think you are mistaken.

Elite Electronics ( ie Max Townshend ) of the UK made the EEI
cartridges.

http://www.vinylengine.com/library/townshend.shtml



Thanks for the replies. I based my origninal post on this article:

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...+500+cartridge


** The article say the EEI cartridge was made in Japan.

There is no mention of an " EEI Australia".


To quote from a label inside the original package:

"Manufactured in Japan to exact specifications for I.E.E. Australia"


** Shame that is NOT in the info you linked - you ****ing ****** !!

YOU were wrong on EVERY POSSIBLE COUNT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You actually KNEW all along that manufacture was in Japan.

In fact there never was any company called " I.E.E. Australia ".





...... Phil

"Michael Chare" wrote in message
...
There was a company called EEI Australia that made the Elite EEI 500
moving magnetic pickup cartridge (and a moving-coil model)

Does any one know what happened to them?

It has been suggested to me that umless I am willing to spend £500+ on a
pickup cartridge, I would do better to stick to the moving magnet ones
rather than a moving coil one. Would anyone dispute this?

**It TOTALLY depends on your tone arm. As a general rule, MM carts are far
more 'forgiving' of tone arm bearings and resonance issues than MCs. It is
also a general rule that, Dollar for Dollar, an MM cart can provide a higher
level of performance in the budget end of the market.


--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

"Trevor Wilson" wrote in
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As a general rule,
MM carts are far more 'forgiving' of tone arm bearings
and resonance issues than MCs.

Why would this be? More damping?

It is also a general rule
that, Dollar for Dollar, an MM cart can provide a higher
level of performance in the budget end of the market.

Agreed.

"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
...
"Trevor Wilson" wrote in
message


As a general rule,
MM carts are far more 'forgiving' of tone arm bearings
and resonance issues than MCs.

Why would this be? More damping?

**Damping and arm (bearing, headshell, etc) rigidity. SME bearings (kife
edge) are spectacularly unsuited for use with MC carts. Later SME arms
addressed the problems (only partially successfully) by using a damping
trough. It was a kludge. Arms like the fabulous Rega RB300 showed how a
relatively low priced arm could be built to deal with MC carts.


--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au