Brinkman Balance Comparisons

Vetterone: would you include the Walker and the Continuum in your top five? DO you believe the Teres competes at that level?

I have compared the Brinkmann lagrange with the Sme and avid decks. The sme lacks pace - its very clean sounding but too polite and saps all the life out of rock music. The avid acutus has very good timing and pace but lacks vitality in the midband. I havent heard the raven but I have heard kuzma, yorke, amazon, pluto, origin live and may others and the BLG is way ahead. However the emt cartridge must be correctly loaded at 600 ohms and MUST have around 330 - 470 pf capacitive loading on top of the interconnects due to the emt design. Without this you have not heard what the BLG can do. +/- 50 ohms or +/- 30 pf is clearly audible - I have never ehard a cartridge so sensitive to loading.

Rick,

Call Jeff at Highwater Sound in NYC to demo the TW Acustic Raven 1, baby brother to the Raven AC. It uses the same P/S, motor and the same, but smaller bearing as the Raven AC. It's competitively priced too.

Evan

Thanks Evan! I called a few weeks ago. Never heard form them? I guess they are just starting to set up?

Rick,

Jeff is very responsive so I'm sure something is amiss. Try him again and I'll give him a heads up that you're calling.

Evan