Air Tight Supreme compared to PC-1

Albert, regarding what Mike has ... you forgot about "Twin Peaks". ;-)

Regards,

all he has is that Pizza under a bridge by his old school :^).

.....and the blond waitress at the Pizza place.....

Albert, last time i was at the Northlake 'that' blond was asking about you. my wife wondered just what you did to make such an impression. don't worry; your secret is safe with me.

Metralla, i did take Steve and Albert to Snoqualmie Falls during the flood we were having in honor of their visit. The 'Twin Peaks' 'Lodge' is sitting above those falls. Nature put on quite the show.

Steve, have you had a chance to read Jonathan Valin's review of the Supreme in the February 2009 issue of TAS? He gives a nice overview of the differences he's hearing between the original PC-1 and the new Supreme.
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Howdy y'all.

Rushton, much time has lapsed, as has my subscription, since last reading an audio mag. Might you recap Valin's findings?

Thanks, Steve

Steve, in a nutshell, J.Valin liked the Supreme as a "greatly improved" cartridge over the over the original PC-1, which he'd liked very much. Quoting briefly from the review by JV: "The new cartridge goes lower with much better timing, focus, and resolution, goes higher with greater incisiveness, detail, and speed, plays big dynamic passages with greater power and control, and stages with even greather width and depth, and focus than the PC-1 (which, let me remind you, was and is no slouch in any of these regards). It is also much more neutral... As of this writing, the Air Tight PC-1 Supreme has less of a sonic signature than any other moving-coil I've tested, making it, possibly, the best cartridge I've tested."

He goes on to caution appropriately that "best" can only be in the context of a given cartridge/arm/table and one's listening priorities.
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