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koetsu

seeking advice as to where the sweet spot is in this line price/performance.

dancekerl
dover
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@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.     

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nandric
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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''.

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chakster
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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."   

 
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nandric
4,086 posts
 

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).



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chakster
6,144 posts
 
@nandric

If I remeber well you mentioned your ZYX CPP-1 at least 5 times

(grin).

Few times, yes, but seems like i’m still the only one owner here on audiogon. That’s why i always remember A.Salvatore.

When i did my search for "Denon AU-S1" on audiogon, i saw at leat 25 posts of yourself, so i hope you’re very happy about this SUT, lol
Another person who mentioned this was Raul, but only few times. BTW, correction: the impedance range of AU-S1 is not 2 - 40 Ohm, but 3 - 40 Ohm. And why i remember Salvator again is because his favorite Bent Silver SUT has similar construction (with direct connection to the transformer for each channel), but without the cabinet.    

Anyway the ZYX CPP-1 is not a SUT, but an active headamp, and considering Dover’s post (to avoid all the SUTs) i decided to remind about this device, hoping somebody else experienced with this, except Arthur Salvatore (ex Koetsu dealer) who rated it so high.

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