TW-Acustic Arm

Audiofeil,

I have had your experience as well. Waiting for a cartridge to break in and never opening up.

Dertonarm,

I should say a new page has turned and for once we agree. But lets agree that when we disagree it should be as gentlemen with kind words for each other and each others biases.

On to the Titan i revised...if it can be one a combination of 3 things I would be so pleased. The detail and soundstage width of the Skala, the dynamics of the Titan but even more, and the magic of the Olympus all combined with a perfect window to the truth. I have a feeling the new version will reach 2 of these 3 and for that I am waiting.

>>05-10-10: Dgad
Audiofeil,
I have had your experience as well. Waiting for a cartridge to break in and never opening up.<<

Well thanks but that wasn't my point. What I meant to convey is a cartridge's sonic character does not change appreciably over time.

Many become a tad more polished or refined but I can't think of a single cartridge I've owned in the past 50 years that has undergone a personality transplant after 25, 50, or 100 hours.

Sorry if I wasn't clear.

Dertonarm: "Besides that - hardly anything new to mention. Micha Huber showed off his Thales and Simplicity tonearms at Brinkmann's and TW of TW brought the white (?) labeled black bird to Munich. They all had their fans and admirers dropping in and out, - well, business as usual."

The Thales Simplicity arm looks new and exciting to me.

Here's a Raven on a TW table and a close up
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Hiho, the Thales Simplicity looks surely exciting, but he is not new at all.
Look in the Garrard archives and you'll know why I didn't labeled the Sinplicity "new". Garrard had a similar looking tonearm - and quite similar too in technical design - at hand when John Lennon was still alive.
A common phenomenon - if a design isn't around for quite a while, it's return is often an all new invention for many.
We have had that in speakers and poweramplifiers in the last 2 decades with the resurrection of field-coil, horn speakers and SE-OPT amplifiers - all techniques from the late 1920ies which weren't used in custom applications aside from Cinema or special Pro-Audio since the 1960ies.