why do Ortofon SPU C from the 50ies sound so good?

Dear Nandric,
being a very funny animal, at least in this hobby, I am not sensitive anymore for a positive feedback on such a high level as you did. You mean I have some skills left as a man now having reached the golden age still listening to old large black discs on a humble system in a modest room? You maybe right.

best & fun only - Thuchan

Dear Thuchan, What I meant is this. The Ortofon in question
is more than 60 years old so it looks strange to me that
this cart needed to wait so long to be discovered by you. The logicaly right question should be: 'why is this cart sounding so good to ME?' Your intention was to describe a
relation between two 'objects' ( in logical sense) : you and the cart. But you are describing only the cart attributing to the thing all those qualitys. Ie independant
of your own preferences which should be also releveant by
a description of an relation.
Art Dudley just reviewed the Ortofon Collector's Box of the
''remarcable SPu's'' (Stereophile ,april 2011).'Ýour' cart is not among them. Every reader of Sterephile knows (or should) that Art is very fond of the 'oldschool gear'.
But he never told to his readers that this is a kind of his
preference based on ? ( aesthetics?). But he wants you to
believe that Thorens 124 and Garrad 301 are the best TT's
ever made. So you need only to add the 'banana' EMT 997 to
reach the Nirvana. This is called 'sefprojection'. So we get 'rhythm', 'pace' and even the 'silence between the notes' as qualia delivered by the 'idler drive'. As soon as
he can convince Syntax about those qualia I will reconsider
both TT's. In a distant past I owned both and even then thought that I need to become a rocket scientist to be able to build a rocket silo for them. But we are talking about different levels of our hobby and as Raul stated somewhere a music lover will also enjoy a cheap radio.
BTW I write feedbacks only for the items I bought on the
internet.
Ragards,

Dear Nandric, YES: "Me And THE Cart", a drama in three acts. The real story behind these two very special carts that most of you would never thought of buying or using them (Am I right?) is that they have been kept in perfect shape. There are no rubber parts to be damaged by UV light or bad usuage. They went through knowlegeable hands too.

Regarding very old Ortofon carts I made the experience that even the 100% Japanese owner of Ortofon today is not providing sufficient information, also not about the old arms. Some people think it can`t be a SPU C because it is coming in an A body... which is also only part of the story.

I do like what Art Dudley is doing in Stereophile with those old "small machines". But as I have told in the EMT/Micro thread maybe just the Mini Coopers... His stories are more interesting than what most of the TAS writers are delivering on most modern gear.

BTW the EMT 997 "banana" (the original one) is an excellent tonearm.

I gave up to convince Syntax on these vintage items. Everyone is allowed to live in his own kingdom of ideas, thoughts and knowledge, especially if they lead to nice results - and here we are back to your favourite: philosophy. Maybe I will now develop a completly different relation to my two old Ortofon carts (they are older than we). I will tell you.

best & fun only - Thuchan

Dear Thuchan, Very nice story indeed. So those literary talents resulted in an drama in thre acts. But I expected
more info about the quality of the cart itself to found
the statement already entailed in your question 'why do Ortofon SPU...sound so good?' So it seems to be a fact that
thy sound good but you hoped that other may provide the
(additional) explanation. I am really sorry that there is
nobody yet to share your excitement with you. The shared excitement shoud be at least twice as great.
BTW is the 'Voice from Mars' as you hoped for or even better?

Kind regards,

Dear Thuchan, There was an article about 'the new Ortofon'
in Hi-Fi News. If I remember well the Japanese owners deed
no change the 'tradition' of the company. They may still have those 'old-fashioned gatherings' with the old co-workers. If so the personnel department must have a list
of even very old co-workers who may know many details about
their and now your 'babys'. I hope this suggestion make some sense. Regarding the lack of the 'rubber parts' Daniel should be able to explain this because the FR-7 line
is similar in this regard . Or so I thought.

Regards,