Tranfiguration Orpheus description

Sirspeedy,

thanks for your response. I will have to try the higher VTF and the lower loading that Nsgarch suggests. By the way, I was afraid my comparison to CD' would likely be controverstial. I tried to say this in a positive way. I think Fremer may have said the same thing. Wasn't try to copy..only my impression. anyway, the O is clearly bvetter than CD playback. Even my 40 Grado was.

By the way, I'm up north and plan to do a comparison of the O to the Zyx Universe at Dougdeacon's place this Wednesday. We'll try it at 200 ohms and !~2g of VTF.

Stay tuned...

Andrew

Andrew -- I'd love to be an audiophile fly on the wall at that pow wow. Better not say anything about it to Mehran @ Sorasound just yet ;--)

Speedy, RE the 47 ohm setting for the O: from all my polling of folks with Trannies (not yet the O of course) I've noticed that they all seem to settle on a load just a bit shy of the optimum theoretical load for their particular cartridge. I've been running at exactly the optimum for my W, but I'm going to drop it a bit and see what happens. I'll let you know.
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Andrew,you are going to Doug,this Wednesday for a Univ vs Orpheus shootout!!!!!!!C'mon,man!
Please make sure one of the judges is not paid off.A'la Don King style.-:)
Just kidding!

Best,
Mark

Andrew, and/or Doug, please fill us all in on the cartridge comparisons. Make sure Paul is there, I trust his ears! Doug's ears I'm not so sure about. Just kidding, Doug! I don't know if you've heard Doug's system before. If not I can safely say that you guys will have no trouble picking up on the differences.

Sorry to drift OT just a bit, but what Mark described with the Venustas sounds exactly what I hear from that model IC and speaker cable before break-in. Albert warned me that I'd probably mumble dirty things about these cables for the first 100 hours or so. After that they really start to mellow and blossom.

Nsgarch, Sirspeedy,

Yep. This comparison will occur this Wednesday. Doug's info has been a great help and I wanted to pay my respects!

Interest in this comparison must be great and a comparison would inevitably occur sooner or later. I'm certainly interested in the Zyx mistique. Finally the Zyx and Tranny camp meet. Maybe they would have been better off not :). Anyway, I think Doug will be fair and I will post my observations in an unbiased way.

As you know, many regard the Univ as one of the best. However, many also regard the Tranny's as some of the very best as well. And now with the O in the game it's about time these two meet. I suspect both camps will be positively surprised and these two fine cartridges are probably more alike than different. We'll see.

Andrew