To Raven One owners.....

Motnic,

I went from a Hyperspace to a Raven AC. The Raven One is similar to the AC having compared them side by side quite often. The Hyperspace basically has a slight warmthm, a touch of bloated bass and a slightly rolled off top end. The Raven corrects that while maintaining the same dynamics as the Nottingham. The Nottingham can be "tuned" by choosing the correct arm to some extent. The Raven will let you hear the arm and less of the table. Hope I helped.

Touch a Hyperspace motor. It vibrates. The Raven motor has almost no vibration.

Thanks Dgad. You've been a great help.

Looks like an upgrade to a Raven may be a priority for me.....

It looks as though the overwhelming majority of people are using the Phantom to great success. Has anyone out there heard the Naim Aro on the Raven One yet. Also, is the Phantom a huge jump up in performance over the Vivid?
Thanks.

The answer to the last question, is yes. I heard the Vivid on the one and Phantom on the AC, side by side when I bought my Raven one. Now clearly they were'nt on the same table, but you could hear the clarity, expanded soundstage etc, the Phantom was bringing. The Vivid is excellent for the money, but it is only a few hundred dollars. There is a review of the one, in one of the online magazines, where the reviewer started with the Vivid and went onto the phantom, have a look at it

The Phantom is a $4400.00 decision if you want new and your going to wait for one.

Then you have to mount a decent cartidge on it,you will quickly equal the price of a Raven One alone.

On top of this you have a phono cable to connect from your Phantom to your phonostage.

Don't compromise at this stage.

My top choice of a phono wire is the Nordost Tyr at $1,100 new.

I just want to point out, the overall price is getting up there.

Even a second hand Phantom and phono wire could easily go over ones budget.

I'm sure Thomas Woschnick of Raven choose the Vivid arm for VERY specific reasons.

Go to HighWaterSound.com for the Vivid reveiw and others.

There are more reveiws on the way shortly in major magazines of the Raven One and AC models.

Hopefully Roy Gregory and staff of Hi-Fi + magazine is one of them.

Cheers guy's