Hi,
This is quite possible but cannot confirm. You could well be right as their are not many companies that actually produce their own cartridges.
There is a US audio dealer called Excel that stock Gold Note. That's probably what he's hallucinating about. Gold Note are an Italian brand so almost certainly don't roll their own.
Although they do in fact claim to https://www.goldnote.it/news-en/welcome-to-gold-note/
Uhuh so Gold Note lie about being made in Italy and https://www.analogplanet.com/conten...artridge-manufacturer-excel-sound-corporation is complete fiction.
Yes you found that post on vinylengine. Well done.
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And your point is? Which of these cartridges do you recommend buying, based on your listening?The Firenze-based company is very proud that it manufactures virtually everything in house and has done so for the past 25 years. But there are some things it can’t make for itself. In the case of its pickup cartridges, although it winds the signal coils onto the armatures in house, it buys in its diamond styli, cantilevers and crossbars from two well-respected specialist manufacturers in Japan: Adamant Namicki
Da Vinci, Giotto And The Art Of Cartridge Design | The Ear
The Da Vinci and Giotto cartridges are the latest additions to an extensive line-up from Gold Note, starting with the ES-78 moving magnet at £130, right up to
Internal Excel generators / coils / stylus , just the case is different
Hana EH/EL + Sumiko Blue Point
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ES-78 Goldnote + Excel 700
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I think everyone can see that the cantilever is different. The EH and (current) Blue Point also have different output specs on frequency response and voltage - 2.5mV versus 2mV.
yes in the past they were, now they seem to forget to make the other half of the cartridge, i still am using 70´s cartridges but bought some new ,only the sound is so low that i while having old stylus for the cartridges , the new ones would make some amplifiers or control amplifiers, two phono inputs unusefull and the aux. is normally for cd players and others, the mc cartridges in two amplifiers i own have a litle knob for increasing the volume ,one sideways , other in the front and a control amplifiers as them in the back, but with new mc cartridges makes no effect as i also when needed put the tape monitor on and using the cassette deck or open reel deck, rec level would increase the volume but the cartridges have a very low volume ,the reason why i still am not using them, but i do like the grado prestige II gold and hana umami red that i can get for a reduced price, also have, the so well refered 2m Black from Ortofon but that one is still closed in the box, this new one seems good but not buying any new one for now, maybe in some years i´ll need to buy more, some technics suplied cartridges i have for what i´ve known were made by Nagaoka and they sure sound perfect, when the release of a new SL-1000(r) , they (technics)asked Nagaoka to build a cartridge for the turntable due to their comercial relationship in the past.
Some that i know were from the 70´s and sold till the 80´s but stylus for them were still available in the 90´s as i have them, so i would keep using them if still available stylus for them, well built ones.
True.
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