Continuum Caliburn - really the best TT on earth?

Dear halcro: Certainly a 100K+ TT has to perform different ( for the better I hope. ) " per se " but certainly too the Cobra has a weight on that performance, obviously in a lower way that the TT it self.

Maybe could be interesting to test the Caliburn with out its dedicated rack-stand and with out the Cobra to find out or to be nearest to the stand alone real TT quality performance.
I know that the Caliburn quality performance comes as a package, I just wondering.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear breuninger: Is that a Goldbug cartridge?, that's a very nice vintage LOMC, one of the few MC's that still like me.

Very nice too your whole music room, congratulations!

regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Mike: Do you already listen your Rockport over the same " environment " like the one you heard the Caliburn?.

Maybe the Caliburn is the best TT's out there and I'm not questioning this but what I'm wondering is how you arrive to that Caliburn statement when you heard it in a totally different audio system than the one you own. Do you think that if you hear your Rockport in that same system can the differences still/be the same?

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Raul, yes it sure is a Goldbug. A very vivid but yet accurate and natural cartridge. It's one of the favorites. I have a great love affair with LOMCs from Scantechs to Miyabi's, even certain Koetsus (if loaded properly).

Peter

Mikelavigne and Thuchan--

I too spent some time listening (with my own vinyl I brought with me) to the Continuum at CES yesterday. I fully agree with Mike--I was hearing subtleties and cues I've never heard before, and with an absolutely rock-solid pitch and soundstage. Very impressive. However (and satisfying Thucan's curiosity), the system was playing through Wilson loudspeakers (Sashas, I think?) and for me, this was a great disappointment. I'm just not a Wilson sort of guy. Nonetheless, one could still tell the 'table was doing all the right things.