o_holter
Responses from o_holter
| Good carts with SME V Ideal requirements: 1 My phono stage plays fine with carts from 0.25 output and it can probably sound good (with quiet tubes) with just 0.20 too. But in my system, it really shines with higher output carts, like 0.5 or 0.6. 2 The SME V effective m... | |
| Good carts with SME V tsloan - I love the Atlas, no problem, but it needs repair/retip. My friend had a Helikon on a SME V and could never get it quite right. I think the Titan was a better cart. So, for me, it is more a question of trying something new, and have a bac... | |
| Good carts with SME V sublmnl - thanks - thats an interesting experience you had with the Frog mating with the SME IV. One might think that the arm was a bit heavy but apparently not? Compliance seems very high - 35? When I put the figures into the vinyl engine calcula... | |
| Good carts with SME V Right! I have originals, some UK, some US - so I think I will resist the Steven Wilson remaster. | |
| Good carts with SME V Atmasphere - listening to Yes Close to the edge, side B track one with a heavy organ solo, I dont hear any breakup. Where do you hear it? I have a ca second press UK. | |
| Good carts with SME V I love form and finish as a final solution in a product. A beautiful-sounding cart should have as good a material design and form and look as well as possible. But more than that? I get sceptical. If the sound is so-so, does it help me if I look a... | |
| Good carts with SME V Atmasphere - glad you like Yes -or like me, their best parts. Pipe organ - I will check. Invictus005 and rauliregas - a case in point could be Doors albums. Recorded through tubes at first, s-state later. Giving a more hard, flat sound, to my ears... | |
| Good carts with SME V Testing some more, the Titan i. Yes: The Yes album, and Fragile - UK originals.Certainly heavy duty fare.The cart is mainly up to it.Not much congested but a bit flat and hard on the highest dynamic parts of the music.The Atlas tones this down and... | |
| Good carts with SME V I am considering a Koetsu Black offer here on Agon, but have to check on the production year and the number of hours. The underside is black, not gold as I've seen from review pictures. Raul suggested - get a boron cantilever for the Lyra Clavis. ... | |
| Valve phono stage I bought a used Aesthetix Io mk2 for about $3800 years ago, and later upgraded. To my ears it sounds better than e g the Steelhead, ARC PH6 and others I've heard. Especially after I upgraded to dual power supplies and partial eclipse status. You h... | |
| New Thread on Steve Hoffman website that says Audiogon sucks I didn't know that Marx was behind Audiogon. Or the "faceless monster, Marxian liberalism". Wow! | |
| Good carts with SME V Tønnes – thank you. Probably, the Black would be most interesting to try, in my system. Raul – I know you don’t like tubed phono stages. Yes, there are minuses, but plusses too. It is not like I go to friends places with solid-state stages and t... | |
| Good carts with SME V tkr - so the black could be the best Koetsu alternative in my context? Output 0.6 is fine. Which Urushi did you have? Just by looking I liked the sky blue. Not sure, which of the new more wider frequency (stone body?) Koetsus would be best match. ... | |
| Good carts with SME V Thanks all. Yes, I am willing to listen - Koetsu, Kiseki, others. Meanwhile here is a little home update, my Lyra Titan i. Experimenting more with the Lyra Titan i, back in my SME V arm now that the Atlas is broken, I play Yes: Relayer, a kind of ... | |
| Good carts with SME V thanks!.wspohn – which Koetsu worked best in the SME V? atmasphere – yes, lower compliance and/or cartridge weight. Maybe I will consider change of the tonearm. jperry – will take a look. nkonor – yes I am trying to get in contact with them. The... |