Is There An "Absolute" Best Cartridge?

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Dear Raul, your 'Sommelier example' is illustrative of our
'misunderstanding'. He can only compare 'some wines' and
state that 'a' is the best of the sequence:'a,b,..n'. But
to state that 'a' is 'absolute the best' we need some added
conditions. I don't intend to involve you in 'academic' or
'scientific debate'. But everyone of us can only put in the
discussion what he knows or think that he knows. So I think
that I know something about the 'quantifiers' and their use
in statemets,sentences or propositions ( choose your preference). I learned this by study of Frege in more then
10 yeas time. To my mind the greatest mind of Europe. So I
am of course biased by my,say, education. But even so the
most I have learned in my intellectual development is from
Frege. His 'compatriot' Dertonarm I admire particulary for
his 'enlightenment inclination' . He is to my mind an 'homo
universalis' but I am not always in agreement with his statements. His attempt to handle both 'variables' (the cart and the tonearm)at the same time are not convincing to
me. He should start with,eh, one 'known' entity and procide
with the 'unknown'. Like he deed in Sweden by looking for
'someone' there. The peculiar 'reason' is that 'someone' is
not a name. Obvious to all of them who ever have coplained:
'someone has stolen my car'. The problem is obvious: varaibles are not names even if we put them in 'subject-predicat' sentence form. Then we all know that he prefers the FR-66 S tonearm. But even if we think that he is 'unlimited ' regarding his 'potentials' we also know that he is (very) limited regarding the choice of an cart
for his FR-66. So that is whay I 'presupposed' that Allaerts MC 2 Formla 1 is the 'best' cart at present. Ie if
you want 'the best cart' you should look for an tonearm after that.
So Raul our 'disagreement' is not about the carts but about
the statements about the carts.
Regards,

raul: I've previously said that the "tube liar" is more about marketing than he is about truth in audio.

I'm glad you agree with me.

Regards, Raul: Your accessment of the EPC-100M4: as wines can be reds, whites or the bubbly kind, sweet, nutty, fruity or dry, your Sommelier would suggest that one would be more appropriate in a certain set of conditions without intending the exclusion of others as being equally rewarding in different circumstances. Different vintages and social circumstance make this an open system.

Dertonarm, Travbrow, Nandric and others have politely expressed this concern relating to audio. With much respect for your pursuit of excellence and with recognition that logically there must be a "worse" and a "better", until systems and listeners are mass produced with cartridges as the only variable and all wines except one are blended in a closed system universiality, absolutes in an open system setting are contradictary. In practice(!), performance is a matrix of compatibilities and good or bad, integration remains system dependent. I wouldn't argue the quality a cartridge I don't know, it's the term "absolutely" I stumble over. Meanwhile, I'll remember knowledgable Raul stated it the absolute best he ever experienced and find fault with neither if someone else's fine tonearm thinks otherwise.

Ebm: Thanks for the humor ;-). You were joking, right?

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