Continuum Caliburn - really the best TT on earth?

Dear breuninger: Is that a Goldbug cartridge?, that's a very nice vintage LOMC, one of the few MC's that still like me.

Very nice too your whole music room, congratulations!

regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Lewm: I agree in part with Syntax. I always try to hear as many audio systems I can, every kind of audio system no matters its price and I do it for many reasons.

Money was/is made to spend and if you are " insane " wealthy then you can spend that money even in a not to rational way.

One " advantage " of people like you and me that don't have enough money ( I wish I have. ) to spare everywhere is that we take audio item decisions/choices with more in deep " investigation " due that we can't give us the " luxury " to make mistake$$$ about.

If I was Thuchan ( and other than to have the fun on trips to hear it ) what I do first is to buy or borrow from the TT manufacturer the Cobra tonearm and test in my system with different cartridges and see what differences against other set ups in my system.

No one here yet address the fact that the Cobra tonearm has a " weight " in the Continuum overall performance, more than what we can imagine.

Thuchan: +++++ " Is there any reason not to go for a Caliburn? " +++++

no one in the same manner that there is no reason to go for the Raven or SME or Mónaco.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Thuchan: I name it only to say that there is no reason to buy one.

+++++ " but what is so special regarding technological inventions? " +++++

I read (m maybe I'm wrong or not read all about. ) what the manufacturer of the Caliburn has to say and I don't find nothing " special regarding technological inventions " either.

IMHO a technological invention ( any kind. ) is not always a synonymous of better quality performance but sometimes only " different " quality perfromance.

I'm a little confuse: what are you looking at: true better quality performance above/over what you own or a new technological TT invention?

Maybe the Cobra alone could give you a better performance that any of the good tonearms you own with any of your TTs and in the other side the Mónaco ( in many ways ) has " technologicals inventions " even that " dono push my emotions very much ".

Now, if what you move are more " emotions " than facts then IMHO you must go for what are pushing your " emotions ". At the end of the day it does not matters what any one of us think or try to help you but that you be happy and certainly our each one emotions and the way to achieve them is perhaps the most critical an important subject/target for you enjoy and be happy!!!

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Jimjoyce25: No, I did not but seems to me by its designs that maybe the most important " weight " in the overall Caliburn performance comes/culprit by the Cobra tonearm, who knows?

regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear halcro: Certainly a 100K+ TT has to perform different ( for the better I hope. ) " per se " but certainly too the Cobra has a weight on that performance, obviously in a lower way that the TT it self.

Maybe could be interesting to test the Caliburn with out its dedicated rack-stand and with out the Cobra to find out or to be nearest to the stand alone real TT quality performance.
I know that the Caliburn quality performance comes as a package, I just wondering.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Mike: Do you already listen your Rockport over the same " environment " like the one you heard the Caliburn?.

Maybe the Caliburn is the best TT's out there and I'm not questioning this but what I'm wondering is how you arrive to that Caliburn statement when you heard it in a totally different audio system than the one you own. Do you think that if you hear your Rockport in that same system can the differences still/be the same?

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Mike: I don't ignore nothing coming from you, as is I ask you.

I'm interested too in what you and othet people post about the Caliburn and certainly not because I want to buy it ( I don't have than kind of money. ) but I want to figure ( at least ) what the Caliburns really is.

I will try to have the opportunity to hear it. I think that even that many of us can't buy it the experience to hear it is something that ( if we can. ) we can't miss.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Thuchan: Good you are satisfied. Remember what I posted here about the Continuum arm?, nice to read that I was not totally wrong about.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear Thuchan: Maybe the Global Economic Crisis affect the Audio High End market niche.
In the other side it is not easy to manufacturers/designers bring something new when their products are at very high level and where customers that pay high prices for it a few months ago can buy again.

Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.

Dear @thuchan :  """ I believe that the Continuum tonearms are not only rare animals but among the best sounding tonearms ever designed. """

Six years ago in this same thread and when you were looking for advice about the Continuum TT  that " moved " your emotions to make the " voyage " after a CES I posted:


""" Maybe the Cobra alone could give you a better performance that any of the good tonearms you own with any of your TTs ........
Now, if what you move are more " emotions " than facts then IMHO you must go for what are pushing your " emotions """


""" No one here yet address the fact that the Cobra tonearm has a " weight " in the Continuum overall performance, more than what we can imagine. """


""" No, I did not but seems to me by its designs that maybe the most important " weight " in the overall Caliburn performance comes/culprit by the Cobra tonearm... """


""" Maybe could be interesting to test the Caliburn with out its dedicated rack-stand and with out the Cobra to find out or to be nearest to the stand alone real TT quality performance.  """


After those posts you answered me: 

""" Raul, I was going the path you followed and considered bying the Cobra tonearm... """

but " emotions win the " battle " and you gone for the Continuum TT/tonearm.

Why am I addressing these?  because the Caliburn?  , not really but because what I posted years before this thread and before other gentlemans in this forum ever addressed: that the single most important partner of any single cartridge is the tonearm and not the TT and you ( some way or the other ) just confirm it.

Yes, the Cobra is a very good tonearm and not easy to beat. Good too that you recognize that.

MF has different " preferences " but is magazine biased and that's why the comments of @halcro  in this regard.

Btw, I'm not saying that TT is not important because it's but has a different importance weight in the overall cartridge quality performance. Maybe even the Phonolinepreamp is more important in the LP analog experiences.

Good to hear from you again.

Regards and enjoy the music,

R.