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Post Subject: From a Satisfied User of a Ready-made ItemPosted by Paul S on: 3/21/2013
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My Ortofon T3000 SUT is wound with "20-9s" silver (or some such shit) over some sort of super-duper core, all wrapped in Mu metal. Since it is designed from scratch to partner with the Ortofon MC3000 II cartridge I use, I would really hope it "works well" in that application; and it does. I have yet to re-build my multi-metal Phono-version IC (Cu and Ag wire, and "trailing" shields), but I can say there is nothing about silver for this application that I do not like. I can say that I have preferred - overall - the multi-metal ICs to pure silver. I can't say how the "12-9s" Cu coil windings of the cartridge coils affect the resultant "mix" I get.
I think with the SUT the "dynamic" loading the cartridge "sees" may swamp the choice of wire metal. Once the loading is dialed in, silver might be nice. Whether it's "worth the money", I could not say.
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