@ct0517
Hi Chris,
My Denon is the M version. From my reading I believe it did not have a conical stylus but a line contact on a boron cantilever. I'm pretty sure my Denon has been retipped, including cantilever because the chap I bought it from said it had an aluminum cantilever and only 50 hours but was not NOS. The DL-103M is way to old and out of production to have only 50 hours and it had a boron cantilever.
The Delos has been resting too long for me to make comparisons with the Denon. I am running it on the Garard 301 through an ARC PH-3 to my CAT SL-1. Compared to the Van den Hul Black Beauty on the VPI. running directly to the CAT the Denon does nothing wrong. It just has a little less. Totally sins of omission. Not quite as much air, extension up top or separation of instruments. Bass extension is very nice. Sound stage not quite as deep. The differences are not large. It is not something one notices if one starts listening on the Denon. It is not until I switch over to the VDH that I hear the difference. But considering the more than 10X price difference the difference in sq is small. And it is just very musical.
Re my sub crossover. I don't know when you last looked at my virtual systems but there are other changes since last we chatted. I was running a Sunfire True sub with no crossover. High level input from my amp to the Sunfire. Gone is the Sunfire, replaced with a Vandersteen sub which uses filters to reduce bass from one's amp and regenerate in the sub. My amp has a 200k ohm input impedance. If I set the Vandersteen input filter/crossover at 200k ohms it is crossing over at 80 hz, but it sounds best set at 100k ohms. I think this produces a slightly lower crossover point but I'm not sure.
Even though I'm running my signal through another box (the crossover) with associated extra plugs and interconnect the Vandy woofer was a huge improvement. Not only is the bass more precise but the improvement in soundstaging, air and room cues was substantial. Releving my main speakers of bass improved everything up above.
I intend to try you near field sub experiment next rainy day but my room does not allow permanent near field placement of the sub.
Hi Chris,
My Denon is the M version. From my reading I believe it did not have a conical stylus but a line contact on a boron cantilever. I'm pretty sure my Denon has been retipped, including cantilever because the chap I bought it from said it had an aluminum cantilever and only 50 hours but was not NOS. The DL-103M is way to old and out of production to have only 50 hours and it had a boron cantilever.
The Delos has been resting too long for me to make comparisons with the Denon. I am running it on the Garard 301 through an ARC PH-3 to my CAT SL-1. Compared to the Van den Hul Black Beauty on the VPI. running directly to the CAT the Denon does nothing wrong. It just has a little less. Totally sins of omission. Not quite as much air, extension up top or separation of instruments. Bass extension is very nice. Sound stage not quite as deep. The differences are not large. It is not something one notices if one starts listening on the Denon. It is not until I switch over to the VDH that I hear the difference. But considering the more than 10X price difference the difference in sq is small. And it is just very musical.
Re my sub crossover. I don't know when you last looked at my virtual systems but there are other changes since last we chatted. I was running a Sunfire True sub with no crossover. High level input from my amp to the Sunfire. Gone is the Sunfire, replaced with a Vandersteen sub which uses filters to reduce bass from one's amp and regenerate in the sub. My amp has a 200k ohm input impedance. If I set the Vandersteen input filter/crossover at 200k ohms it is crossing over at 80 hz, but it sounds best set at 100k ohms. I think this produces a slightly lower crossover point but I'm not sure.
Even though I'm running my signal through another box (the crossover) with associated extra plugs and interconnect the Vandy woofer was a huge improvement. Not only is the bass more precise but the improvement in soundstaging, air and room cues was substantial. Releving my main speakers of bass improved everything up above.
I intend to try you near field sub experiment next rainy day but my room does not allow permanent near field placement of the sub.