What Cartridge(s) Is Everyone Using
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Dear audio - friends!
The cartridege I use?
Mainly one: van den Hul - The Colibri XPW Grenadilla Platinium ... a little singing bird...
The cartridege I use?
Mainly one: van den Hul - The Colibri XPW Grenadilla Platinium ... a little singing bird...
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Dear Myles,
nothing special, only one small bird, as he built already many:
This is a XPW a colibri with platina coils and grenadilla wood body, an african very hard wood which is used for instruments like a clarinette.
nothing special, only one small bird, as he built already many:
This is a XPW a colibri with platina coils and grenadilla wood body, an african very hard wood which is used for instruments like a clarinette.
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VDH - XPW Colibri @ Grenadilla Wood Body - Platinum
Tom, this looks like a serious high quality cartridge build uniquely for best performance,
and without any frivolity.
Tom, this looks like a serious high quality cartridge build uniquely for best performance,
and without any frivolity.
Dear NothStar,
hm perfect? What's this? Is it possible that a cartridge is perfect? Is there anywhere out there a perfect cartridge?
I think there are many other very good cartridges out there. But I don't believe that anyone is perfect.
Also the colibri XPW isn't perfect.
But I have much joy and pleasure with this colibri.
I never was so releaxt when I listen to the musik like the day I got this colibri, few weeks ago.
I know what the the famous sharp needles out from the netherlands able to do, I owned many others of AJs little wonders before this one.
They make my sound. A sound like poisen. If you listen one time to this cartridges, you will never listen any of them, or like me, you will never listen without them.
The XPW - Grenadilla Platinium is the best cartridge of the dutch master whom I ever listened to.
I love it very much.
hm perfect? What's this? Is it possible that a cartridge is perfect? Is there anywhere out there a perfect cartridge?
I think there are many other very good cartridges out there. But I don't believe that anyone is perfect.
Also the colibri XPW isn't perfect.
But I have much joy and pleasure with this colibri.
I never was so releaxt when I listen to the musik like the day I got this colibri, few weeks ago.
I know what the the famous sharp needles out from the netherlands able to do, I owned many others of AJs little wonders before this one.
They make my sound. A sound like poisen. If you listen one time to this cartridges, you will never listen any of them, or like me, you will never listen without them.
The XPW - Grenadilla Platinium is the best cartridge of the dutch master whom I ever listened to.
I love it very much.
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What's the output of the vdH GP? Also, what's the difference between yours and the "standard" Colibri?
Dear Myles,
A standart Refference Colibri is made with a polycarbonat - body and with copper or gold coils.
The colibri with platinium coils is only on demand but usually build on a plastic body.
The next step is build the colibri with the wooden body. But I think this body is out of production now.
It was a limited edition.
If you interested in this body, you should ask if there is a last one in stock.
This Colibri is made with platinium coils and a grenadilla wood body .
Collected a dramatic improvement results in relation to the very good standard colibri.
The platinum coils were for a long time sell off. The manufacturer of van the Hul it referred, an old japanese, died some years ago. For about two years there are new platinum coils, and they are very good.
As said, there are these coils only on demand. On the homepage are not registered they.
This one has an output of 0,35mV at 5 sec. Is is a low output cartridge in vdHs ranking.
A standart Refference Colibri is made with a polycarbonat - body and with copper or gold coils.
The colibri with platinium coils is only on demand but usually build on a plastic body.
The next step is build the colibri with the wooden body. But I think this body is out of production now.
It was a limited edition.
If you interested in this body, you should ask if there is a last one in stock.
This Colibri is made with platinium coils and a grenadilla wood body .
Collected a dramatic improvement results in relation to the very good standard colibri.
The platinum coils were for a long time sell off. The manufacturer of van the Hul it referred, an old japanese, died some years ago. For about two years there are new platinum coils, and they are very good.
As said, there are these coils only on demand. On the homepage are not registered they.
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Dear Myles,
nothing special, only one small bird, as he built already many:
This is a XPW a colibri with platina coils and grenadilla wood body, an african very hard wood which is used for instruments like a clarinette.
It looks like an exotic cousin of my Black Beauty XP - congratulations!
I can not imagine how the Mozart clarinet concerto K622 sounds with this great looking cartridge.
Thanks Tom!
But I infer that the cartridge is then very light? Or does AJ add mass in some way?
Dear microstrip!
The Black Beauty was a great cartridge, I owned also one a few years ago.
@ Miles: Please underestimates the weight of grenadille not, it is more heavily than one thinks and no light wood.
I didn't compare the wood body with an other one, but the attitudes of the tonearm are not very different to a metal body colibri I used before.
And no, vdH didn't add anything tho the colibri to make it more heavy.
The Black Beauty was a great cartridge, I owned also one a few years ago.
@ Miles: Please underestimates the weight of grenadille not, it is more heavily than one thinks and no light wood.
I didn't compare the wood body with an other one, but the attitudes of the tonearm are not very different to a metal body colibri I used before.
And no, vdH didn't add anything tho the colibri to make it more heavy.
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