Tranfiguration Orpheus description

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Andrew,
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Congratulations on getting to a good place with the Tranny. It's nice to hear someone so happy with their system.
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Rgds,
Larry
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Andrew,

It sounds like the Orpheus is breaking in nicely. The fact that it now sounds better at a more normal 100 ohms than at 47K is consistent with that. I've had new MC's that sounded okay at higher impedances OOTB, but needed progressively lower impedances as I put hours on them until they finally reached happiness at the expected setting.

I wish we'd had more hours to play with arm height during your visit. Your results make sense. Our cartridge also sounds muddy and less micro-dynamic when SRA is too low. Glad to hear working at this is paying off so well. I'd love to hear it again some time, optimized in your system for instance!

All the best,
Doug

Dear Andrew: I think it is time to try the Orpheus. Glad to hear that everything finally settle down.

Yes, Neil is very experienced about.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Review of the Orpheus in the upcoming issue of Stereophile. Stay tuned.

Doug,

Thanks for validating my observations. The improvement from break-in is very noticeable and it feels like it is getting better by the 10's of hours now. Like it has passed a hump.

I agree it would have been nice to experiment with SRA. I suspect that we were closer to 0 SRA in your setup. incedentally, the instruction manual does recommend to set it to a positive SRA and that a parallel tonearm does not necessarily achieve this. I found 0 SRA with the arm lower in the back from parallel and a 1.5 SRA is achieved with the arm higher than parallel. As I mentioned, at this point the 47K does not sound very good. In the beginning I wasn't getting much ariness at 100 but was at 47K. Now I get a lot of ariness at 100. As mentioned before, everything else is better too. You should hear the bass now. Pretty amazing. Deep and defined. Not tubby like we heard at your place.

Please come visit next time you're in Atlanta.

Andrew