Soundsmith Aida vs Hana sh
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The glider is an honest cartridge. Pretty neutral for a Benz. Not warm. The thing it does well is the subtle delicacies. for the price of one, I have not heard anything in the price range doing what it does. However, imo, lewm is right that it will not give you those special moments as often when listening as LOMC will do. No doubt about it. But I like mine. I listen to it a lot. It tracks very well and does many things very well. |
To repeat myself, I also tend to think that the best MMs and MIs provide more thrills than did either of the two Gliders and the one Transfiguration Esprit HOMCs that I own(ed) and listened to extensively in my system. (Before that I owned the Sumiko Blue Points; the less said about them, the better.) And I don't necessarily equate goose bumps with cost (based on my appreciation of inexpensive vintage MMs and MIs). The theoretical reasons why an LOMC might outperform an HOMC would have to do with moving mass (an HOMC has to have more coil wire riding on the cantilever) and inductance (more coil wire creates more inductance). But I have no idea whether there is any merit in that rationale. I still own the Esprit. I probably should go back to it some time to find out how it performs in my current system, which is probably better sounding over all than it was back when I ran the Esprit exclusively, in those misguided days when I owned only one cartridge at a time. But the Koetsu Urushi came right after the Esprit and did "blow it away" on an even playing field. (I am a big fan of Transfiguration LOMCs, by the way, based only on hearing them in other systems.) |
