Field coil dava cartridge

spent the weekend (5 hours Friday, 12 on Saturday, and 8 hours today) with Kedar (Bonzo75 on WBF) doing compares between the DaVa on my Tosca tonearm and Saskia tt, and my 2 other tt’s, the CS Port LFT1 and the Etsuro Gold ’special’ cartridge, and the NVS tt, Primary Control FCL tone arm and Etsuro Gold ’special’ cartridge. each of these 3 tt/arm/cart combo's was fed into an EMIA phono corrector with an MC Trio SUT.

we were joined yesterday by ’jeffrey_t’ from WBF, and today by ’Bobvin’ from WBF and ’Solypsa’ from WBF and Audiogon.

so that’s 5 vinyl loving people who witnessed considerable comparative listening with these three combo’s. my Wadax digital and Studer reel to reel were also played.

Kedar has a blog.....

https://zero-distortion.org/

.....you can read if you want to know his perspectives.

Kedar is returning Wednesday for another 4-5 hours of listening before he flies back to the UK.

i’m not even going to get into any listening opinions. you can just watch for feedback to circulate around about the weekend’s experiences. me posting my thoughts here seems not to turn out too well. the disruption impulse factor here is dominant. why would i want to deal with the grief? i only post this so those who are curious can investigate for themselves.

have a nice day.

DaVa Reference FR graph...

https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/vinyl-upgrades-dava-fcl-tone-arm-emia-silver-phono-corrector-mc-trio.34405/page-5#post-826777

@mijostyn i guess we will all just have to be on pins and needles 🙄 until you hear a DaVa, since nothing anyone says about it matters to you. except it seems to be important somehow to you as you keep talking about it. probably dream about it, and have a picture of it on your bathroom mirror.

you never care what anyone ever says about hearing anything, so how is the DaVa any different in that way?

it seems like some prefer to debate design elegance, history, methods, materials, and measurement minutia instead of actual music playing performance. nothing wrong with that unless you are actually wanting to play music.

 i hope that some involved in those interesting musings do have a chance to hear the DaVa at some point as i would be interested in their listening perceptions about it. to me i want to first hear it to see if i like it, then maybe understand the tech to see how it did what it did. not the reverse first.

i only hope those who visit this thread for specific cartridge listening feedback, and have to sift through all the ’other interesting things’, do eventually find what they seek.

tech talk has it’s function too, of course. but is it the meat? or beside the point?

for me it is clearly beside the point. actually acquiring and listening to cartridges is the hard part. while i respect apparent techie chops, it's not what get's me excited about hifi and music.

@rauliruegas

i think Bonzo is just teasing you. and he is amused by your responses, not frustrated. you are not holding him back from anything.

it is your right, anyone’s right, to dismiss any product without hearing it. but when a product stops taking orders because the waiting line for it is too long, then maybe it’s worth hearing. many who have ordered it have heard it. just my perspective on the situation..

sure glad i have a DaVa here to listen to.

Jonathan Tinn owns both and he or Mike could let us know what he thinks about both

@bonzo75

here is all you need to know about Jonathan’s opinion. his DS Audio is for sale......but not his DaVa. he did tell me he likes both cartridges, but what the DaVa does is essential. and Jonathan has had most of the top level cartridges in his system.

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649905130-ds-audio-master-1-reference-cartridge-with-phono-equalizer/

@dover

constant minor side load is not as big a deal as sudden heavy side load.

Bruce might have forgot to mention (i did not read your linked info) that linear trackers do also require precise set-up or they can put much more stress on the stylus at the point of initial contact with the groove....getting arm started; than a pivoted arm which swings free. the stylus transfers the whole weight of the arm assembly to the mounting point and so if the arm is not properly level and free to glide it will be harmful. linear trackers can be the cause of failure too. non air bearing linear trackers are more vulnerable to this.

i owned the Rockport Sirius II SE for 2 years, then the Rockport Sirius III for 8 years. now i’ve owned the CS Port for 4 years. so i do fully appreciate the positive aspects of that approach. but i also switched from the Rockport to the pivoted Durand Talea back in the day and overall preferred it at the time. now i own three pivoted arms (2--10.5" and 1-12") and they do their job in an exemplary manor too. more than one way to skin the cat and it’s all a matter of execution, not dogma. arms are just part of the equation.