Graham Phantom vs Triplaner

I guess I'll second the comment above, somewhere up there, about arm wire and IC's. If anyone has heard Bob G's take on silver (yes, a sweet guy...) then I venture that you knows a what I is a sayin'. (I have a 2.0 with Discovery copper wired inside; still sounds, "tight", like, er, something through ceramic....).

Also, heard someone knowledgeable above talk about different phono IC's and was wondering his take on the new Kondo LP KSL. I run some Kondo in places and was wondering (see, not a silver-hater per se...), and even though I understand the context dependant disclaimers abounding (Indulge me: If all opinion is equal, then how can anyone say anything? How is that that someone who says all opinion is relative, is invariably the same person that then offers many opinions, even as they say no opinion has an authentic ground? Sorry, got side-tracked there, jitter, mistracking, something. If anyone bites on "authentic ground," twenty hits with a broken bamboo).

You know, why don't we get an option of Kondo, or whatever boat floats, from the pins all the way to the phono inputs? I know its just energy passing through various patterns of matter, more energy, but energy matrices in the shape of junction boxes make my right hemisphere intuitively cringe...

Atmasphere, on field coils, have you heard the Shindo's? Just curious.

Thanks Atmasphere. Understood on the phono wire/arm compatibility. I see the Copperhead runs from pins to inputs too. One can talk all day about the sophistication of the Graham arm's integral connector, but I still stare at the thing.

Someone above mentioned the Copperhead, but is it as good on a non-Criterion platform, i.e. without the kevlar/magnetic arm board? Copperhead on a Raven? I'm no analog expert, just curious.

The Raven sounds like my kind of sound and has got me thinking lately (less lately since the TAS review came out and the wait is undoubtedly going to skyrocket...). I've been around too long (anyone remember waiting, baited breath, for their Audiomart to come in the mail?), and just can't do pumps et al anymore. I've got an old TNT 4 with the tower air bladders and I think I'm going to find an existential nexus between it and a shotgun!

Nice thread; I'm learning things.