Ever wanted to know, what your phono cartridge sounds like dead flat??

Interesting they use this very high end vinyl play setup.

This is the turntable/arm and cartridge they used with the Technics and ref calibration record.

" The analog player is a self-made machine with the reference turntable Technics "SP-10R" mounted on a laminated board. The board is a one-make product made by a friend (deceased) in the United States by a trader, and is a heavyweight class using Panzerholz plywood, which is not distributed in Japan.

The tone arm is the "AC-3000MC" made by the former Audiocraft, which gained popularity with one-point support.

The headshell made by Mysonic is equipped with an MC type phono cartridge called "PLATANUS 2.0S", which is the debut work of his own brand Platanus by experienced builder Tetsuya Sukehiro."

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/img/avw/docs/1300/097/cal02_s.jpg

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/img/avw/docs/1300/097/001_s.jpg

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/img/avw/docs/1300/097/aa05_s.jpg


Cheers George

After reading about Technic's reason for why stylus cross talk happens and how the cross talk canceler works in this new amp.
I believe "maybe" I was told the wrong explanation of what causes stylus cross talk all those years ago when I was young and impressionable by Neville Thiele (rip)  and Otto Major (rip) all those years ago

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/topic/special/1300097.html

Cheers George 

One of the other members over at the amp/preamp forum found far more info in a second part for you vinyl guys, you have to hit the translate.
https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/topic/special/1298192.html

https://av.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/topic/special/1300097.html
Cheers George

I always led to believe the "riaa" is the "reference" curve for all phono cartridges, they all try to get close as possible to it. Might as well go back to tone controls then, if they don't try to follow it.

Cheers George

Each channel inherently ends up coming in to the other channel, attenuated and reversed in polarity due to the mechanical arrangement. Seems to me this is something dsp could potentially address to some degree.

It says it can also fix the "cross talk". You know when you hear very quietly in the background the next phrase as the record does the next rotation, it’s the stylus picking up the next rotation groove through the vinyl V wall before it gets to it’s proper groove. (I think they call it adjacent groove talk)
As well as giving a "flat frequency" response.
But to me the "channel separation" is a more difficult one, as I don’t think the dsp knows what’s the reference is for this to give it better separation.

Cheers George

Which one?

Only one the threads all about over there, the Technics SU-R1000
https://www.technics.com/us/products/reference-class/integrated-amplifier-su-r1000.html

Cheers George