Denon 103(R)

[Guest]

Having recently fitted a Denon DL-103R to my Technics wheel of steel and found it to be rather wonderful I thought I would start a thread on it so all the other users on the Wam can join in celebration of this great and wondrous cartridge:^

 

[Dipstick]

Having recently fitted a Denon DL-103R to my Technics wheel of steel and found it to be rather wonderful I thought I would start a thread on it so all the other users on the Wam can join in celebration of this great and wondrous rusty nail :^

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Actually I was impressed by the 103r your dad loaned me, something quite visceral about it.....

 

[belloire]

you know this is the wam not AOS don't you?

 

[It Cost How Much!?!]

It's a dog and it has fleas

 

[Guest]

;-)

 

[vacdac]

Best used for lancing boils. :cafe:

 

[Tarzan]

you know this is the wam not AOS don't you?

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It's a dog and it has fleas

Handbag!

 

[rabski]

Quite seriously, this is one that defeats me.

I've tried the 103 twice and the 110.

I really hated them. To me, they have an unnatural top-end emphasis and some real humps in the upper mids that I can't live with.

I'm confused though, because plenty of people who I normally agree with about the 'sound' of things absolutely love them.

Are they possibly really sensitive to loading or arm mass?

 

[Guest]

.Are they possibly really sensitive to loading or arm mass?

Yes and the correct loading.

 

[Guest]

Actually I was impressed by the 103r your dad loaned me, something quite visceral about it.....

It's the exact same one Des, yep your right, it's exciting:^.

 

[Tarzan]

Yes and the correct loading.

x2. :rockin:

 

[i_should_coco]

Yes and the correct loading.

No amount of correct arm mass or electrical loading can make it sound decent. All you can do it roll it off so it's les offensive!

 

[Vinyl Art]

No amount of correct arm mass or electrical loading can make it sound decent. All you can do it roll it off so it's les offensive!

Rolled off to zero volume

 

[i_should_coco]

Rolled off to zero volume

That would be my preference.

 

[Guest]

Well, I'm shocked by the lack of love in the room

 

[SergeAuckland]

No amount of correct arm mass or electrical loading can make it sound decent. All you can do it roll it off so it's les offensive!

It has a spherical stylus, so the distortion at HF due to pinch effect will be very high. This, of course, may be what some people actually like about it, but I can't get on with any spherical stylus, even ellipticals are suspect.

S.

 

[Guest]

Damn, it's not even adequate.

 

[Birdbrain]

How do you expect a stylus like that to extract detail from the groove?

Put a decent stylus on it and it can be surprisingly good.

 

[Guest]

How do you expect a stylus like that to extract detail from the groove?

Yeah, it's really old tech isn't it.