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Is the Teres a

I have just read Art Dudley's review of the Quattro Supreme (Stereophile, October issue), a table spawned from the basic Teres design. (The friendship, then break-up of the original Teres group is also mentioned as a side story.)

I have no experience with the Teres but the Supreme - a design very similar to the Teres - priced at $6,000 got a "B" rating (actually meaningless, but someone's got to give it some rating because we are a rating-mad people!).

Why doesn't Chris Brady send Art a table so that he could at least give the Teres a good review and exposure?

Art's reference, the LP12, by the way, beat the Supreme in one area: PRaT.

Cheers,
George
ngeorge
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
Thom,
We're definitely on the same page about PRaT, sorta what I tried to say in my post criticizing Art Dudley's infatuation. While PRaT can certainly be masked by a stereo, as 4yanx pointed out, most PRaT-loving reviews I've seen are in fact praising inaccurate tonal balance or inaccurate reproduction of leading or trailing edges of transients. A particular inaccuracy may of course sound "better" on some recordings, but it will be insufferable on most others.

The "perfect" stereo would *exactly* reproduce the tonal balance and transient behavior of the recording, and its noise floor too. A component that fails in one or more of these areas will probably mask some of the musicians' PRaT, but focusing on PRaT is indeed focusing on the result, not the cause.

Enjoy the TriPlanar. Here's a tidbit that's not in the manual: the cueing height adjustment also controls the point across the record where antiskate kicks in. Weird, but easy to understand if you look at it long enough. :-)

Sorry to NGeorge for the endless OT, but it seems like a nice conversation!
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
7.8Hz? Yikes. No wonder my pet elephant is always nervous. They can hear that low can't they?

Einstein explained our futility 100 years ago. What you see/hear depends on where you stand, and even on whether or not you're looking/listening!
ngeorge OP
57 posts
 
Sorry to NGeorge for the endless OT, but it seems like a nice conversation!
Dougdeacon

No problem at all. Take the thread wherever it leads to. Any conversation about music/gear is fine with me.

Regards,
George
cousinbillyl
190 posts
 
Ngeorge

I noticed you mentioned the RS Labs A1 arm.

I have ordered the 340-2.

One of the arms I have is the RS Labs. The other will be the Schroder DPS. So far I only have the ZYX 1000 Airy.

Can you give me any advice on the RS arm?.

I am looking at one of the Koetsu's as a second cartidge. Any thoughts on possible matches between tonearms and cartidges?.

Bill
ngeorge OP
57 posts
 
Hi Bill,

I like the RS-A1 for its speed and dynamics. I have, however, an issue with its delicate nature; you can't afford to be casual with it.

It's made very different from other arms in the market. I have only compared it to my stock RB-300, which it beat easily. You have to be "careful" when handling it.

That said, having the Schroder DPS should more than make you satisfied, shouldn't it? It's one of the finer arms around, I think.

But if you can have both the Schroder and RS-A1, then do compare them and let us know what you think of them.

Hmmm, that should be an intetersting shootout!

Regards,
George
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