The Palladian-A step beyond

Help me please: what does this cartridge cost and where can you buy them? Thank you.

Have you read and taken in what halcro and I have written? What you have done here is attack the product by attacking our personal listening credibility based on our systems and a review of a cd. “I can’t speak about the Palladian because I never heard it”. Bravo. Correct. But nevertheless speak you do, and all damning. Thank you for your patronization “I could think goes in the same “school” where you learned/study”. You know zero about the decades of equipment I have listened to.

For me, the best thing is when someone comes up with a suggestion to go in a direction that I would not have otherwise taken and my ears tell me that my pre-judgement was woefully incorrect. For many years I was a power amp tube guy (Audio Research, VTL Ichiban, CAT – but you already knew that rauliruegas) after a disastrous set of Roland 100 monoblocks back in 1988 (100 watt monoblocks with a badly masquerading tube sound thick as liquorice and unbelievably poor bass). The then Rowland preamp on the other hand was good. After all my relatively high powered tube amps I eventually went tube single-ended pure class A and the simpler the circuit the better, driving efficient speakers. I had the opportunity to trial at home one of only two custom monoblock pairs made by Audion around the VAIC 52B tube. No expense was spared – custom silver wired transformers etc. The circuit was very simple. So according to my thinking they should perform, and indeed they did. They delivered a reasonable amount of current so the bass was good. The midrange had great detail, lovely tonal texture (not unnaturally warm) and the treble was airy and extended. Great amps. I was going to stop there. And then the hi-fi dealer, for whom the custom Audions were made, told me I should get a Kinoshita HQS2500UPM power amplifier instead and not take his Audions. Nothing could have been further from my thoughts – a highly complicated high wattage transistor amp. I told him sure the bass would be better but not the mids and treble and so I refused. He said he had such faith in it he would order it and I could listen and decide, no obligation. I did and it took me about 2 minutes (of course with significant further verification listening) to decide. The Kinoshita blew the Audions away in every regard including the midrange and treble, and of course the bass.

I did not go to one school rauliruegas. I have been to too many and I remain open to any. I raise the above example not for the point of tubes v transistors nor to give you further ammunition to attack my listening credibility, but for us all to have open inquiring minds and to judge with our ears and not speculate against and denigrate others actual experiences because they do not fit our own prejudices. Yes I am prejudiced based on my experiences but I remain open to hear all approaches to hear whether I think they better my own and if they do I am grateful to know this to point me in a better direction.

Well consensus is fine but disputes  are more exciting. Thought  with

exception of the Mexican.