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MY SONIC LAB Cartridges

I'm considering the Hyper Eminent for my Shindo/Altec setup. The table is a Kuzma Ref 2 and Ref 313 gimbaled bearing arm. My question only has to do with sonic flavor. I was going to go with a Koetsu Rosewood Sig, but as much as I love Koetsu, I think it will be too warmly balanced in my setup. So I'm looking for a slightly more neutral sound without  dipping in to brands that tend to hyper detail the event. I think many of us know what lines they are, so let's leave specific names out of this thread. Let's just say I'm looking for a more linear, dynamic sound, yet still retaining enough body. 
fjn04
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lewm
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Dover, you twisted my words. Please re-read carefully what I wrote. “Quite the same” does not mean indistinguishable. No cartridge is perfect. And I might be deaf, but you have other disabilities associated with your character that seem to be equally incurable, eg, you are rude and not qualified for civil discourse on a forum such as this.
edgewear
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@dover this voicing to specific requirements for these brands is what I had suspected as well. Then again I seem to remember one poster here suggested that AirTight doesn’t even bother to offer their cartridges for sale in Japan and leaves the home market to MSL. This suggests that any sonic differences would be negligable.

I recently had a good deal on a dealer demo Accuphase AC-6, which is another variation on the MSL theme. It has the impedance of Hyper Eminent (1.8 ohm), combined with the boron cantilever and output level (0.4 mV) of Ultra Eminent. This might suggests that sonically it sits somewhere between those two, but having heard neither of the MSL’s this is just speculation.

I like to think the AC-6 combines the best of both ’worlds’. Just kiddin’ of course, but it’s definitely a highly ’neutral’ (or ’balanced’ if you prefer) cartridge with an incredibly dynamic presentation. They do sell the AC-6 in Japan, perhaps because Accuphase as a more mainstream brand has an attraction to ’one brand’ customers, unlike an amplifier specialist like Airtight.



tablejockey
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"Dover, you twisted my words."

lewm,
let Dover win. He has a history of replying the way he does. You gotta wonder if that type of personality is the same face to face. If so, I feel sorry for them. 

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