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@rauliruegas 

IMHO the only continuity in this mess is the music. Everything else is expendable.

We have had many complimentary and useful discussions Raul, so please do not belittle yourself.

All roads lead to Rome:-) 

mijos: " the critical importance of CONTNUITY for the MUSIC can flow in natural way as in live events. "

I think that your mind unstability comes from that system " unstability " : "  thus the odd combination ", that's part of the system unstability.

Never mind, it's ok with me.

R.

@rvpiano : Less rthan a month ago you posted:

" Voila, the system came to life after break in like never before. "

" My system never sounded so good. "

"  I might  have been a little premature in my evaluation.  Most things really sound good.  "

" Maybe being too compulsive! ", extremely compulsive when your  Clearaudio is almost new and you can be sure that needs a luittle more time and after that time you need to make a check up of the cartridge/tonearm set up and start a proccess to fine tunning it through palying with VTA/SRA, VTF, etc, changes.

Before spend in a new cartridge as fast you want maybe after that fine tunning if you are not satisfied then an IC cable could help about.

Any new cartridge will " present " to you a different MUSIC reproduction approach but not necessarily a better one.

Many times the brigthness comews in the recording and we have to remember that live MUSIC has brigthness too.

Anyway, up to you.

R.

I think my problem is that I listen predominantly to orchestral music. 
‘Almost everything else sounds wonderful to me.  It’s the sound of those massed strings that are hard to reproduce.  I wouldn’t be so compulsive if I listened mainly to jazz, folk or rock.  They’re no problem. .I’d be a very happy camper.  
I have to suspend disbelief when I listen to an orchestra.  VERY few recordings capture the true sound of an orchestra. It’s almost a vainless pursuit!

The reason I’m leaning towards the Maestro is that basically I like Clearaudio sound.   I just want a less bright presentation which the Maestro seems to provide.