Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge?

Dear Raul, your 'Sommelier example' is illustrative of our
'misunderstanding'. He can only compare 'some wines' and
state that 'a' is the best of the sequence:'a,b,..n'. But
to state that 'a' is 'absolute the best' we need some added
conditions. I don't intend to involve you in 'academic' or
'scientific debate'. But everyone of us can only put in the
discussion what he knows or think that he knows. So I think
that I know something about the 'quantifiers' and their use
in statemets,sentences or propositions ( choose your preference). I learned this by study of Frege in more then
10 yeas time. To my mind the greatest mind of Europe. So I
am of course biased by my,say, education. But even so the
most I have learned in my intellectual development is from
Frege. His 'compatriot' Dertonarm I admire particulary for
his 'enlightenment inclination' . He is to my mind an 'homo
universalis' but I am not always in agreement with his statements. His attempt to handle both 'variables' (the cart and the tonearm)at the same time are not convincing to
me. He should start with,eh, one 'known' entity and procide
with the 'unknown'. Like he deed in Sweden by looking for
'someone' there. The peculiar 'reason' is that 'someone' is
not a name. Obvious to all of them who ever have coplained:
'someone has stolen my car'. The problem is obvious: varaibles are not names even if we put them in 'subject-predicat' sentence form. Then we all know that he prefers the FR-66 S tonearm. But even if we think that he is 'unlimited ' regarding his 'potentials' we also know that he is (very) limited regarding the choice of an cart
for his FR-66. So that is whay I 'presupposed' that Allaerts MC 2 Formla 1 is the 'best' cart at present. Ie if
you want 'the best cart' you should look for an tonearm after that.
So Raul our 'disagreement' is not about the carts but about
the statements about the carts.
Regards,

raul: I've previously said that the "tube liar" is more about marketing than he is about truth in audio.

I'm glad you agree with me.

Regards, Raul: Your accessment of the EPC-100M4: as wines can be reds, whites or the bubbly kind, sweet, nutty, fruity or dry, your Sommelier would suggest that one would be more appropriate in a certain set of conditions without intending the exclusion of others as being equally rewarding in different circumstances. Different vintages and social circumstance make this an open system.

Dertonarm, Travbrow, Nandric and others have politely expressed this concern relating to audio. With much respect for your pursuit of excellence and with recognition that logically there must be a "worse" and a "better", until systems and listeners are mass produced with cartridges as the only variable and all wines except one are blended in a closed system universiality, absolutes in an open system setting are contradictary. In practice(!), performance is a matrix of compatibilities and good or bad, integration remains system dependent. I wouldn't argue the quality a cartridge I don't know, it's the term "absolutely" I stumble over. Meanwhile, I'll remember knowledgable Raul stated it the absolute best he ever experienced and find fault with neither if someone else's fine tonearm thinks otherwise.

Ebm: Thanks for the humor ;-). You were joking, right?

Awakening or confirming suspicions? This may help:

http://2012.tribe.net/thread/665d4741-7369-4780-9e98-1bc651423192

Dear Timeltel/Nandric: Unfortunately there is no Maxim's de Paris restaurant everywhere, so to know it and understand what I meaning you must to go ( till one year was here in México. ) to Europe, China or Hong Kong. I attend here in México and in Paris too.

Maxim's de Paris is not a restaurant it is IMHO " the best " example of what any one could desire in a " boutique " status restaurant that btw posses maybe the greatess wine cellar in the world.
It is not a restaurant for any one even if you can pay it. Itt is a restaurant to people that has the knowledge or accustom to.

Well, a long history short: if you are an expert on wines and ask for Mersault 98 of the Bouchard " house/orign " ( I don't know how to say it ) and you ask to taste it before drink it you just can't do it: only the Sommelier can and have that right in benefit of you and what you pay for that wine.

If you are not an expert and already order what you will eat that night and ask for a wine then the only question the Sommelier ask you is: how much money do you want to spend? and after that you will have your bottle of wine: with no choices for you.

In both cases you will absolutely satisfied with the Sommelier " job " and you will remember that night and when you leave Maxim's the first thought to your mind is: to choose your next time in Maxim's!!!!!

On the Sommelier " job " subject his target is only that you be totally ( no excuses. ) satisfied with his choice and you know what: you always be!

Nandric in audio of course that are " added " conditions that's why you " study and training " several years to be an audio Sommelier!

I can but I don't have the time to explain you step by step what any one needs ( whole conditions. ) to achieve that audio " Sommelier " status.

What if you meet ( for the first time ) a person that tell you he is an Ayurvedic Gurú? and you tell him that he can't be ( in this example you don't know nothing about Ayurveda. ) and you tell him this only because you don't know nothing about or because you don't have that kind of training or knoledge or simple because you never been interested on Ayurveda.

All those " feelings " can't say that that man is not what he is or that could not be!

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.