Sirius and Walker

Hi Lewm,

IMHO, the Rockport is really an integrated engineering marvel.

As you know, with all tonearms there are some cartridges that are just a better fit than others; otherwise, just as Syntax mentioned above, it can be a very risky endeavor when running a light VTF Olympos with the Rockport tonearm. The previous owner from whom I purchased the Sirius lll, did crash his Olympos and the cartridge required a roundtrip air-lift flight from the Seattle area to Lyra for rehabilitation...no, no, no...

...now, there is this wonderful audio chap that I know that is just really MAD about the Rockport turntables. He is building an audiophile's basketball team and needed to finish out his starting lineup...a Tex Winter Triangle Offense.

...so he now has 3 lll's, and 2 ll's...a glorious starting 5 for Team Sirius! Well, there is also the rumor of a possible one-off V.

He prefers the Koetsu Stonebodies and Goldfinger cartridges interfacing the groves with his Rockports; he tells me there is no latent hop, skip, and/or jump problems with these hold-me down babies.

Lewm, I hope this helped!

Best,
Alan

Unoear has twice in the last 10 days referred to the Olympos cartridge he purchased from me with the Rockport and made a point that i crashed it on the Rockport.

01-24-12: Unoear
Yes, the Olympos shootout never came to pass...wonderful cartridge, just not a good fit with the RP tonearm. It came to light that this other fellow crashed his Olympos on his Rockport and it required sending the cartridge back to Lyra for a rebuild.

02-01-12: Unoear
........The previous owner from whom I purchased the Sirius lll, did crash his Olympos and the cartridge required a roundtrip air-lift flight from the Seattle area to Lyra for rehabilitation...no, no, no...

i'm sure his motives for mentioning this are only the most pure and honorable....as that is the sort of guy he is.

i just wanted to clarify that the reason for the factory rebuild of the Olympos had nothing to do with the Rockport as Unoear continually points out; i made the mistake of improperly installing the stylus guard (without my glasses on) and smartly sheared off the canteliver.....a bad day for sure, and expensive too.

now Unoear has another nice thing to add to his list of nice things to say. :)

Dear Unoear: +++++ " I have happily fallen into the string-driven big Micro Seiki camp; " +++++

like you I was " there " for some years till I learned more about distortions and ditortions coming from big/weigthy TT platters MS or not with the acriklyc tweak or not and from any weigthy TT.

Obviously that you as other persons are in the learning curve about and sooner or latter you will learn too, not only from the MSs but from weigthy platters on TTs and how this " damage " the cartridge signal.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.

Mike L. and myself smoked the peace-pipe late last night.

Raul, I guess some distortions are more preferred than others; that may explain the many camps of TT fanatics. As it has been pointed out by others much smarter than myself, sometimes the feeling of "better" is just synonymous with "different-in-kind."

Cheers!

Dear Unoear: Yes, some one prefer some kind of distortions but I'm not talking of what we prefer or what we like but about what is good or what is wrong and IMHO those weighty platters on TTs are way wrong.

I know too what better means and I'm talking of better and not only " different kind ".

As I posted sooner or latter you will learn/discern about. Our hobby is a day by day learning excercise.

Good that you are moving your face to the DD's direction, BD (any ) can't touch DD TT designs ( everything the same:good design and good execution design. ).

With BD TT all of us what we are buying is only the higgest $$$ per metal's kilos and nothing more than that. The BD designs permit to charge big dollars to the customers only because its weight and as more weight as more $$$$ for " simple " peaces of metal : nothing more.

In a DD designs there is no " floor " to charge fro that metal's peaces.

IMHO BD TT are no more than a dinosaur a pre-historic item that the AHEE refuse to " kill " once and for ever.

That's why I think that your " feel " about the Monaco is a promise one new experience.

Regards and enjoy the music,
R.