TW Raven 10.5" Tonearm

Thanks for that Rdcline.

This is good feedback as I have a Phantom 1 on my AC-3 as well as an Ortofon AS-309-S.

was the phantom a mk1 or mk 2 that you compared it to.

cheers

Mk1. And I want to emphasize that the graham sounded very good. I just found the tw to sound even better. My friends, who have heard my system through its various versions all agreed. I am using kharma midi exquisite speakers and asr emitter II exclusive amp and asr basis exclusive phono stage so it may just be a great match with my gear. However, if you have an ac-3, which is the same table I have, I would definitely give the tw arm an audition. Good luck

Cheers for giving some context and details to your earlier statement.
Appreciate that. By being more "musical" do you think the TW arm give it a bit more bloom in your all solid state amp/phono and highly revealing Kharma speakers thus sounding more appealing?

You raise an interesting point while I thought the graham had pretty good air around the instruments. There was an ease of presentation that i got with the tw that i initially thought had more to do with the cart than the arm. However, i did not quite get this with the graham. The sonic picture was clearer with the tw and that did have something to do with bloom. On the macrodynamics both had plenty of air but the tw seemed to have much more air and seperation on the micro level. Finally, the dimensionality, and seperation of instruments from front to back was much more pronounced with the tw.

Now that are all great news for analog music lovers and I think TW should soon raise - following universal approved and agreed upon market rules - the retail price of the TW 10.5 considerably to illustrate and kind of fortify the sonic superiority of the "white Raven".