Audio-Technica AT-VM95SH - Cartucho para Tocadiscos con imán móvil Dual (café)

Me ha sorprendido las sutilezas de los sonidos que es capaz de reproducir esta cápsula con la aguja Shibata, sin duda la estrella (y más cara) de los otros diseños. Me resulta un placer volver a escuchar mis LP's (o vinilos como se les llama ahora) con esta cápsula, seguramente se debe a que su geometría le permite introducirse más profundamente en el surco y/o trazar mejor sus variaciones. En la época de los discos cuadrafónicos (Quadradisc) tuve (y conservo) una cápsula también con aguja Shibata porque era la mejor capaz de reproducir las frecuencias superiores a 25.000 Hz necesarias para escuchar cuatro canales discretos registrados en estos vinilos.

Melhor do que eu esperava. Toca com perfeição. Nada de exageros em graves, médios ou agudos. Excelente compra. É caro, mas vale cada centavo investido.

So, I’m a “budget” audiophile. I have some nice gear and the ability to run both a nice surround system or a nice stereo. I’ve been collecting records for only about 7 or 8 years and what I’ve done is buy a couple of whole collections from estate sales to flesh out an inexpensive assortment. Needless to say that you don’t get too many minty records doing this. Plus, the learning curve of matching gear, turntable, phono pre, stylus, etc. So, buying a few turntables and cartridges, I was left still wanting more. I was running an AT120Eb which is a very nice cart and sounds great much of the time, but still suffers from a modest amount of sibilance and IGD (inner groove distortion). Not horrible but I’m pretty picky.I was reading about this line of carts (no longer new but new to me since I didn’t pay attention for a few years) and I saw very good reviews of the shibata version. I decided it was time to give it a shot and try to improve my sound. Remember all those old records I have, literally hundreds of them, some of them a bit scratched, some of them used on a really bad record player with a stylus that apparently damaged them during use (sound fried with distortion that follows whatever is most prominent in the mix). The shibata stylus is much narrower and gets deeper in to the groove and gets past much of the burn from lesser (and wider) needles. This new vm95sh is the cure to my vinyl ills. The sound is perfect and undistorted on new records and my worst sounding records are much better than they have been. It’s remarkable how it erases so much damage by getting deeper and going past the surface wear. It doesn’t eliminate all pops and scratches, but it does, in my case, de-emphasize much of it. No sibilance and no perceptible IGD apart from the natural drop in resolution which is unavoidable on a record, so it’s killer awesome.Lastly I would say that one concern I had was the VTA issue with shibata stylus. So, they’re supposed to be very sensitive to vertical (rake) angle. My main table is a ProJect Debut Carbon with Speedbox. There is no VTA adjustment, but you can use different thickness platter mats and they do sell a shim that mounts under the tone arm base, so there are options. But, so far (I’m 2 days in) I think my stock platter and mat (1mm thick felt) and no other adjustments have the cartridge sitting about perfectly parallel to the record right out of the box. It’s almost like it was made to go on a table like mine with no fuss. I may, over the next week or two, play around with VTA by shimming and swapping mats, but right out of the box, with only my alignment protractor and tracking force scale and about a 3” strip of electrical tape to add a tiny bit of mass to the tone arm, I’m dialed in at 2.08 grams tracking force (1.8 to 2.2 recommended) and I’m loving it. A clean record with little wear is now fully rivaling my HiRes 24/96 flac and easily besting my CD’s in terms of presence and engagement. I have the clarity and resolution of my best digital (I have a nice DAC too) coupled with the natural live presence and amazing soundstage that even the best digital sources struggle to re-create. It’s just more fun to listen to vinyl now, without getting let down by the end of the record sound quality drop off. For $200? Seriously? I doubt there’s a nicer sounding, better cart on the market, especially considering how the shibata stylus saves borderline records. I have a hundred records that sounded bad last week, but sound pretty good now, and my good records sound amazing. Best investment I’ve made in the vinyl hobby.

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Changed the cartridge that came with my Marley record player and the step up in sound quality is instantly noticeable. Worth the cost to get the most out of your vinyls.

No sé si es preamp del rotel, el tocadiscos o la aguja es falsa, realmente no noto la diferencia entre está aguja y una cónica, y menos en la parte interna del disco, donde se supone que está aguja ayuda en las frecuencias bajas en esa última zona del disco.Tal vez tenga que refinar más la cadena de audio, pero mientras...tengo mis dudas.

Wow! I was expecting this cartridge to be decent sounding, but the sound quality far exceeded my expectations! I bought this to use this on my 2nd deck to save wear and tear on my rather expensive MC cartridge (costing many times the price!) on my main deck. Surface noise is remarkably low and tracking is excellent, with no noticeable distortion on the inner grooves. Treble is crisp and the bass is excellent. This cart is not even properly broken in yet, but sounds great already! A Shibata stylus for this price is stunning value. Add in easy fitting due to the well thought out captive bolt design and the fact you can easily swap out the stylus when it needs replacing without junking the whole cartridge is fantastic - plus it’s compatible with other styluses from the range is the cherry on the icing on the top of the cake! I couldn’t be more impressed with this - it’s a superb piece of kit.

Alta fidelidad de audio

Tengo un mes usando este cartucho Shibata de Audiotechnica y lo recomiendo plenamente, el ruido o scratch se reduce considerablemente así como también brinda un sonido claro y balanceado para cualquier tipo de música.

Vale la pena cada centavo que vale, estaba inseguro por el precio, la tengo en una Yamaha 700 y la revivió en absoluto