@nandric Not so, no holy water consumed prior, but yes we do produce some world class wines. You are no doubt aware that your fellow countrymen contributed greatly to our wine industry following the migrations for the gold rush in the 1800's and later mass migration from europe after the ravages of WW2. If you line up multiple phono stages in the same system of each type you will quickly recognise what I have described. |
Dear Dover, I can't compete with a former HIFI dealer reg. the aboundance of equipment owned and experienced but I own two ''decent phono-pres'' and an abundance of MC cartridges. Those two are Basis Exclusive (''gold'' version) and Klyne 7 PX3.5 both with 4 amplifing stages. Both user manuals recommend the lowest amplification possible for the used cart. The reason is that ''the higher amplification the higher distortions''. So I am with chakster regarding the LO MC with, say, lower than 0.3 mV output. I am not willing to sell my home in order to buy all nedeed SUT's for my 40+ MC 's collection so my compromise is Denon AU-S1 which covers 2-40 Ohms impedances. I am very much impressed with Ikeda's old and new carts (FR-7 fz , Ikeda 9 (cantileverless version) and the new Ikeda 9 TT. All of them with less than 0,2 mV. To me they sound better with the SUT. If you post to me some ''Holy water'' from ''our beloved'' New Zealand my hearing may improve in such a way that I can agree with you and earn at least 1000 euro for my SUT to eventual pay for a decent amount of your ''Holy water''. |
I don't know who is Arthur Salvatore, but this man tested many SUTs and posted on his website about it. He was a Koetsu dealer for 10 years. There are only a few SUTs in his "class A" category and his favorite is
Bent Silver TX-103, my ZYX CPP-1 active headamp is the first in his "Class B" category and described as very close. He said: " For those audiophiles who don't like any MC transformer, for whatever reason(s), the ZYX is a no-brainer choice, if it's affordable." |
chakster, Salvatore is self appointed hifi authority a kind of ''super Raul''. Not exactly like Napolen but similar. As is well known Napoleon appointed himself to the king of France. The problem with Salvatore is , uh, logical. ''The best x'' imply ''all x are Fx&Gx''. This is the so called ''Tarski theory of truth by ( conditions) satisfaction''. If there is just one ''x'' which does not satisfy conditions Fx and Gx then the whole sentence is false. We get some other ''perspective'' or ''picture'' if instead of ''all x'' the expression ''from all x that I know I like the most a, b, c ... n. ''. Everybody is free to make his own sequence of his beloved babe. There are however cases where no sequnce is needed. If I remeber well you mentioned your ZYX CPP-1 at least 5 times (grin). |
