Continuum Caliburn - really the best TT on earth?

Dear Mike: Do you already listen your Rockport over the same " environment " like the one you heard the Caliburn?.

Maybe the Caliburn is the best TT's out there and I'm not questioning this but what I'm wondering is how you arrive to that Caliburn statement when you heard it in a totally different audio system than the one you own. Do you think that if you hear your Rockport in that same system can the differences still/be the same?

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Raul, yes it sure is a Goldbug. A very vivid but yet accurate and natural cartridge. It's one of the favorites. I have a great love affair with LOMCs from Scantechs to Miyabi's, even certain Koetsus (if loaded properly).

Peter

Mikelavigne and Thuchan--

I too spent some time listening (with my own vinyl I brought with me) to the Continuum at CES yesterday. I fully agree with Mike--I was hearing subtleties and cues I've never heard before, and with an absolutely rock-solid pitch and soundstage. Very impressive. However (and satisfying Thucan's curiosity), the system was playing through Wilson loudspeakers (Sashas, I think?) and for me, this was a great disappointment. I'm just not a Wilson sort of guy. Nonetheless, one could still tell the 'table was doing all the right things.

i'm on the way home to Seattle from CES, sitting in the Sacramento airport on the wifi, with 3 hours to kill (the flight is delayed till 8pm).

Raul,

true, the CES system the Caliburn was in was not familiar to me, but added to my previous experiences i am comfortable offering my opinion. as a long time Rockport owner i feel there might be an interest in my viewpoint relative to the thread subject. nothing i said was any sort of revelation or bombshell. anyone can ignore or consider my comments as they see fit.

my comments were prefenced by 'i think'. no statements, no proclamations. i'm not likely to hear these tt's side by side anytime soon, or even in the same or similar system. we do what we can.

btw, your point is not unreasonable to make.

Dear Mike: I don't ignore nothing coming from you, as is I ask you.

I'm interested too in what you and othet people post about the Caliburn and certainly not because I want to buy it ( I don't have than kind of money. ) but I want to figure ( at least ) what the Caliburns really is.

I will try to have the opportunity to hear it. I think that even that many of us can't buy it the experience to hear it is something that ( if we can. ) we can't miss.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.