Whats on your turntable tonight?

Tonight thus far...

Sir Arnold Bax: Symphonic Poems: "Tintagel", "The Garden of Fand", "Northern Ballad No. 1", Boult/LPO, Lyrita SRCS62 (Tintagel is one of my favorite works by Bax, just a delightful work, and this performance by Boult is top drawer. Of course, having Kenneth Wilkinson as the recording engineer certainly helps the sonics!)

Sir Arnold Bax: Symphony No. 2, Fredman/LPO, Lyrita SRCS54 (a wonderful piece of music! Excellent engineering again by Wilkie.)

Mozart: Overture to Lucio Silla; Interludes from "Thamos, Konig in Agypten", Maag/LSO, Decca SXL 2196 (SpeakersCorner reissue)
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The only thing on my platter tonight are lttle beads of sweat from installing the new JMW 9 Signature tone arm. Requires a complete dismantling of the stock arm down to the plinth, retaining parts, and screws from it and a complete reinstall of the new arm. One LP so far:

Ray Brown and Laurindo Almeida "Moonlight Seranade" (Jeton 33 004)
Tons of bass and good string tone. Large soundstage, more forward than the stock arm. still a little raw sounding.
My guess is a need to play with the VTA a bit, as well as the need for the Walker Extreme SST treatment on the cart pins to cure and the Nordost Valhalla wire in the arm needs to burn in a bit.

Joe, Congratulations on getting so far along on the installation! Remember that with the low current in phono connections, the SST will take about 20 hours to fully break in.
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Today, so far. The new arm is going through it's run-in. After about 10 hours or so, the highs are still forward and the bass is a tad lean, owing mostly to the burn in needed on the Nordost Valhalla wire and the 20 or more hours needed to cure the Walker Extreme SST on the cartridge pins. running things right now with the mechanical anti-skate in use, no damping fluid in the well and the VTF on the Shelter set at just a nick under 2g. Will leave the VTA as is till things have about 50 hours on them.
Enescu "Sonata No. 3 Op.25 in Rumanian Folkstyle (Wilson Audiophile W 8315)
Stravinsky "Rite of Spring" Maazel/Cleveland Orchestra (Telarc DG 10054)
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" (Columbia CS 8163) Classic Records 45 RPM reissue

Slipknot, looks like a nice listening lineup to get that new tonearm introduced to your system!
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