Do you have any good suggestion with ussfp?
Good value safe bet these days is Hana (Japan). Has all sensitivity models. Prefer line contact stylus. Good value among bigger brands is Audio Technica. If looking to spend more with some sense of value still, see about Dynavector Te Kaitora Rua.
The TD-160 is a classic! Some pictures of your setup would be delightful. DIY is great and there are even a few brave ones who tinkerer with cartridge work but usually it's parts and pieces from other cartridges - I think the suspension/cantilever/stylus are where most the character happens.
My fool's errand into measurement abyss made me realize the more I measured the less I enjoyed. Vinyl doesn't comply to uniformity, every playback is a performance peppered with nuance - that may be part of what makes it captivating.
Happy New Year
Circling back to this, I realized I never replied with photos. How about a brief video instead? I hope the link works. I recently picked up a "new" reissue of some Charlie Parker 10" LPs from the 1950s, they were recorded between 1949 and 1953, all but one on the Mercury label then on Norman Granz's Clef label when he fell out with Mercury.
This is dark, shot on my phone a few nights ago, no production values.
Shared album - Bill Davidson - Google Photos
Let me know if that doesn't work, I might need to tweak some settings in Google.
big (E.A.T. FORTE) in the living room with ortofon AS309S (12") i want to buy a lomc cart and use theussfp.
OT that combines Diyaudio and an EAT Forte.
Before my pre-covid trip to Japan I have discovered an extensive thread here on DIYA with many japanese diy publications. In one of them I've spotted a store in Tokyo that had an interesting diy horn setup. So I went for visit. The system had megabucks WE amplification, an EAT (Forte?) TT with an Ikeda arm, and a rather (what looked) humble MM, but with a curious, and inventive headshell. It could be seen in a pic attached, although the cart wasn't this one. The sound was impressively smooth
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EAT Forte
If to continue with the Ortofon theme a good choice would be the Xpression cartridge I guess. Fixed geometry, just an extra counterweight, and its set.
Its Xpen$ive nonetheless...
Stanley Clarke - Silly Putty / Journey To Love (vinyl:Ortofon Xpression,Graham Slee,CTC Classic 301) - YouTube
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