TW Acustic Raven One owners


Hello Guys,

I have bought one month ago a TW Acustic Raven One and I have mounted a new Michell Tecnoarm I'm breaking-in with my Grado Statement Master 0.4mv cartridge
I'm very happy about the TW , for me it's a great TT telling the true not the best looking TT but surely one of the good sounding out of there.
Speaking about the arm since it was a new one and I haven't finished to break-in (only 40 hours done) I can only say it smells like a good sounding arm .. expecially good silver cabled

What your arm on this TT? .. and how about your experiences about Raven One - Arm combo?

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Happy New Vinyl Year to EveryOne!

Gabriele
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Halcro,
Perhaps you did experience a sonic revelation with your 30 year old Rega 3 table and Hadcock tonearm.

Who's to say you didn't....If only it was that simple for everyone.

Great choice of arms btw, gotta be just fantastic.

Jaspert the Ortofon arm are a well suited choice and proven with both model's of Raven's as the Phantom's are.

Wait till you take delivery of your Phantom arm, pictures do NOT do it justice.
Jeff Mr. high water set me up good.
the Raven one with a new ortofon 12 inch.
then what i asked for was something of a gamble because nether one of us was familiar with a Decca jubilee MM.the golden cart that kicks butt.
it delivers reality and its kind of actual like mono but has freshness to the max the way the best stereo does.
its just so secure on the ravens dead quite perfect silk smooth toque that seems as sure and seamless as the earths rotation.
the other arm is just good but mostly holding its spot until another ship comes in its a jelco with a zu 102 denon mono cart and we thought it was really good until we lowered the Decca.
its set up in a small living room with my leben 300 12 watt integrated and a English made Puresound MM phono stage and horn shop single drivers.
One of my biggest improvements was something quite inexpensive. I replaced the stock rubber belt with 1/4" mylar. The speed stability results in much purer tone.

I use a Phantom arm with great results.
I got it off ebay. Don't remember the seller but I have a lifetime's supply for less than $30 shipped from the UK. I used Doug Deacon's method if you search this forum but I use clear instead of metalic. Didn't want to mess with etching acid. Also 1/4" is the widest you can use since the spindle is low profile. To save you a bit of time,...it's EXACTLY 105cm. You will need some sort of strobe to re-calibrate the speed.