Field coil dava cartridge

Bonzo, your zeal for traveling all over Europe to audition these very eccentric systems and then to try to describe what you heard is commendable and makes fun reading, if I’ve even heard of the gear in the first place. In the photos, where did you hear Maggies backed up against glass doors? Even with the makeshift baffle that can’t be good. Anyway, now I feel normal compared to some of those guys. Which is therapeutic.

By the way, Bonzo, it would be helpful on your blog if you would define the terms you use to describe sound quality, because obviously the analysis is totally subjective, so one needs to know as much as is possible what is in your mind when you use a particular term.  For one example, what is "flow"?  If you publish a glossary of adjectives and then stick to your own definitions when writing up a system, eventually the reader can build a better conception of how one system differs from another.

@newtoncr , I have an MC Diamond and it definitely sounds better with current mode amplification which you have in your CH. SUTs are a waste of time when you have a phono stage like the CH. Loading does not matter in current mode. I also have the Lyra Atlas SL which in my system I prefer to the MC Diamond. A cartridge which you might find very enjoyable with your phono stage is the MSL Signature Platinum. It has a little more bloom than the Atlas and a lot more gain. I think the Atlas is more accurate but accuracy is not everyone's gig. ``````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````1 

Dear @mijostyn  : " SUTs are a waste of time when you have a phono stage like the CH. "

You are rigth, any SUT in that CH only helps to degrade in several ways the senssible and high vauable MUSIC cartridge signal.  It has no sense to do it.

@newtoncr  , maybe the Ortofon  in other tonearm could performs a little better, you can try an interchange between the Anna and the  Dava tonearms.

@mijostyn  in the CH you can connect 3 LOMC cartridges all stages active high gain: two of them in current mode and the other stage voltge one.

R.

@mijostyn i have to set up the gain at 70db for the voltage stage in the ch . I currently have the loading at 100 ohms … it sounds similar to the current input but for a lower loudness and minimal noise which u can hear with ur ears on the speakers (nothing 2 feet away). Never heard the msl signature platinum … I am curious to hear .

@rauliruegas the ortofon sounds better on the kuzma than the tosca in my system . Faster, cleaner and more impactful. The tosca is as they say “musical “ less dynamic. 

The Kronos discovery rs tonearm is everything you would need , fast , accurate , dynamic (micro and macro ) and musical . The atlas etna sl on it through the ch using Kubala realization interconnect sounds like good master tape playing in an optimized tweaked reel playback system . I am getting the 4 box ch p1 set up later in April , excited to hear what that offers .

so I understand that an sut other than adding noise is not going to augment the sound .

thanks to everyone for your inputs