Comparison ZYX Artisan against Tom Evans Groove ?


Hi,
did anyone compared the ZYX Artisan against Tom Evans Groove ?
Or any comparison between Tom Evans Groove and other phono
pres.

Regards
Karl-Heinz
kha
Kha - Can you do a direct comparison of the ZYX phono vs the klyne with the same turntable setup?
Karl,
Please compare them on any you have time to. Looks like many of us are interested in this comparison. Thank you!

Spencer
Dear Kha - Like Goatwuss & Sbank I am curiously await the result of the Klyne vs. Zyx.

You may want to also consider comparing the Zyx to the JLTI phonostage designed by Joe Rasmussen (from Australia) in collaboration with Allen Wright of Vacuum State. It had gain switch for MM/MC cartridges and cartridge loading rca connectors. The newer versions (with a more substantial external PS option) of this phonostage are now made in Switzerland (at a considerable price increase). The earlier version uses a wall wart PS unit are still available from Joe while supplies last.

Here is the link to Joe's website --> http://www.customanalogue.com/jlti_phono_stage.htm

I also heard the Groove and had in my system for a considerable time. However, I felt that the Whest convincingly outperformed it in a number of sonic performance categories while also being more user fiendly. I still have the Whest and, in a recent session, a few of my local audio club buddies and I unanimously concluded the earlier JLTI version bettered the Whest in two different systems. Furthermore, during the same listening session, we also preferred it to the EAR 324 and was surprisingly very competitive to the Ear 88pb, a tube unit which is quite good.
I just returned from KHA's home and we did made a comparison between a Klyne 7 Phono, Zyx Artisan and a Groove Plus, with a Phantom Arm on a Raven turntable and a Kuzma Airline on a Kuzma Reference Turntable. Both Arms were fitted with Zyx UNIverse ( his and mine ). We switched between the Arms and between the Phono Stages with the same records.
To make a long story short, you can adjust a Klyne, that it is far away from it's best and you can adjust it in a way that it blows everything away. At the end I was so dissapointed from the Groove Plus that I asked KHA: "Is it defect? Did we made a mistake with the connection?"
We made no mistake. And the Zyx Artisan is a good sounding unit.