My vinyl has never sounded better. I have a dyna Karet (older), a benz L2, a Vandenhul 10, & as mentioned above, a denon dl s1. I prefer it to all of them. I can't say it does everything better than the above carts, but it does very well with placing 3d images of instruments on the stage & shows musical texture better than any of them. Also not sure why it's not getting more press. I bought it because it was available locally at a good price & was already on my short list of carts I wanted to try. Really glad I did.
Clearaudio Concept MC
I am very impressed with this cartridge. I bought a demo (had about 20 hours on it) from a local shop. It now has about 50 hours. Not much written on this particular cartridge so thought I'd give you my opinion on it. It replaced a Denon Dl S1. What I like about the Clearaudio is it's ability to produce a nice 3D image of the musicians. The Denon also does this but not to the same degree as the Clearaudio. It also retrieves a lot of detail from the source without being edgy or in your face. It shows texture like no other cartridge that's ever been in my system. The stage is not as wide as the Denon but a lot deeper. The cartridge continues to develop wonderfully. This is the bottom of the line MC for Clearaudio so no doubt it's not the end all (or even close to the end all) in regard to resolution. It is however a very nice cartridge for the price. Very, very musical.
About my system; The arm is a Polestar, the table was custom built (4" solid aluminum platter), Preamp is a Melos 222, Phono Preamp is a Sonic Frontiers, & the power amp is a SE 6550 running Lowther speakers.
Regards,
Tim
Regards,
Tim