TIME'S CELEBRATION: ORTOFON FIRST CENTURY ANNIVERSARY ! ! ! ! !

Ever notice that no one ever talks about if it sounds like real music.  These threads go on and on about null points, these tone arms, blows the other stuff away, distortion, black background, holographic, sound stage, crisp high, tight bass, etc etc etc..

You have people who talk in absolutes without even listening to the product.  OK I have endured the nonsense that digital is neutral,  null points make a huge difference, SUT's are crap, and now you can not make a great tube phono stage.

Now I am not hear to tell you what you like.  For me is it simple, I want it to sound like real music.  When is the last time you went to a concert, club, etc and listened for a black background, soundstage, or tight bass.  When have you heard when the needle hits the 2 null points.  If holographic is your thing some Maggie's might be in the picture.

Sorry to disrupt the status quo of this forum.  Will shut up now, and go listen to my shitty dht tube gear, and my 14 inch oil dampen wood, UNIPIVOT tonearm. 

@pbnaudio Last batch of LSK389 I ordered directly from Linear Systems, more than half went straight to garbage. Discrete low noise jfet days are over. 

Those Toshibas are awesome, should be a very low noise phono preamplifier :)

It's a pity that Ortofon celebrate 100 years and all the cartridges celebrated and released  are financially unavailable to the common man. I'll blow out a candle.

AMG - a 2MRed is $100 - the Quintet series is very high performance to price ratio - yes the pinnacle 100 year celebration offering is expensive - and to the ones that wants is most likely worth the price of admission.  Ortofon offers a Century Concorde @ $550 with a shibata shaped stylus.  Your moniker is AMG the premium souped up offerings of Mercedes Benz - I’m truly puzzled by your remarks 

good listening 

Peter