emt 950, technics sp10 - direct drive sound

Ciao Siniy,

I didn't want to shock someone here with a "bold statement" I'm not that kinda audiophile or person!
We have just compared my lightly modified SL1210 MKII with the EMT 948 of Giuseppe one of our audiophile friends
Telling the truth no one in our group thoughts a 500 euro humble SL1210 could sound like a mint 5000 euro EMT 948
But the "ugly duckling" scored the same sound.
Obviously my SL1210 received a very fine tuning with a MintLP tractor while I don't think Giuseppe own a MintLP for his EMT.
As many here know .. the MintLP tractor improves to stellar level the stock SL1200 arm - cartridge alignement and so the sound consequent.
Probably the great result has to be ascribed at the perfect cartridge alignement more than the normal quality of a humble SL12xx

Btw .. God save MintLP and SL1200 :-)

Curio, Same tonearm and cartridge on the SL1210 and the EMT 948?

Same cartridge (Denon DL103R) but stock arm on my SL1210 MKII and EMT stock arm on the 948

I had a Technics sl-1210 and you can also hear it on youtube. I have an EMT 950, and this too can be heard on the net: http://www.shawsounds.com/restoration
Anybody who thinks an EMT sounds even close to technics (although I haven't heard the sp-10 III) has no idea what he is talking about.

Taviran,
the SL-1200Mk2 is much better. I hear that signature MC ringing in EMT sample. Don't know if it is a platter or the cartridge itself. The ringing has standard Moving Coil cartridge glare pattern, but I heard the same on other turntable manufacturers with MM cartridge. BTW, I listened in headphones. I tend to blame the cartridge first and I can conclude that this EMT cartridge is no better then all MC Ortofons with aluminum cantilevers.