Yes, bias a part of the makeup of this audio hobby...
I like the hueristic that can play out in an escalation of a confirmation bias.
For example, how else could one explain loving a transducer so much that one would destroy and replace the innocent other...violently removing the Sheetrock covering of the container to ineffectively pay for the sins of a highly loved and promoted wired out-of-phase speaker.
Audiophiles do find unusual ways of mimicking life; maybe, more so in the glorious northwest. |
Hello,
I have had the Sirius System lll in my room. The same Sirius that JTinn is discussing. As JTinn has told me, the Sirius, as it was setup by its previous owner, was not able to successfully navigate the inner groves. Therefore, I do not believe that JTinn has heard the Rockport as it was designed to present music that is recorded on vinyl. The Rockport Sirius System lll, is a system, a finely-tuned machine and as such, requires a careful focused understanding of how all of the constituent parts come together to make a whole.
Tim Sheridan, the designer of the Sirius motor drive, was here last month. Eventhough the Rockport is out of production, there appears that there may up to an additional sixteen pristine Sirius System lll TTs that are patiently waiting to spin sometime in the distant future.
I have heard Lloyd Walker's machine. It is an all out assault by the resident mad genius of our hobby; currently in production and universally loved by their owners...definitely a loyal fan group! No hidden secret sauce, just a well-designed machine and a transparent window to the
source.
...and I do like string-driven machines; such as, the big Micro Seikis. |
Hello Raul, yes, it appears that your observation is correct.
Hi Daniel, yes, we did really try. Daniel and myself were going to either rewire the tonearm on the Rockport or utilize the template that we had manufactured for a replacement FR-64s silver tonearm. The later was simply called blasphemy by Syntax, and former would have not been acceptable to the new custodian; a fine chap that has a small collection of Rockports and has a propensity for Stonebody cartridges.
Mmakshak, IMHO, the directdrive unit with the Rockport is top of the class! When you refer to cheaper ones...are you thinking of the recapped/ newplinth SP-Mk3 and/or this other new one? They were both being offered for around $12.5k a few months ago.
Cheers! |
Maybe this will help...the Rockport is nice for visitors; it spent good quality time in my kitchen system. This turntable/arm combo is really happy with the Denon 103r cartridge that I bought for it; it looks great and hangs in there nicely...fun to help pass the time while cooking up a nice plate of pasta.
When I am getting serious and wanting to spend time with the Lyra Olympos, I enjoy that this cartridge is really a nice delicious fit and enjoys riding a silver-wired Fidelity Research 66S. I am finding that this is the superior system match, especially when it is sitting atop a well-tuned big Micro Seiki machine...these synergies are known to alleviate the blues.
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Hi JTinn,
Nice to hear from you! Are you the same chap that is slamming the Walker TT in this thread? You do tend to discount others efforts for the appearance of your own benefit. Please see your comments that you posted above regarding the Walker TT ( you build the NVS turntable; a new and and untested by time turntable)...then there are all of those Magico comments.
Maybe you missed my earlier post, Tim Sheridan was here in December checking out the Rockport and told me that it was setup properly. You may know of Tim, he is the designer of the motor controller and, if course, is intimately familiar with the Rockport. He gave it a good "bill of health" and fine-tuned the MDA.
I know that you are a busy man and maybe you forgot the comments from the conversation that we had last June. You were selling the benefits and features of your new turntable and mentioned the issue regarding inner groves with linear trackers. Maybe I misunderstood your comment...
Cheers! (a happy and pleseant comment!) |
Yes, the Olympos shootout never came to pass...wonderful cartridge, just not a good fit with the RP tonearm. It came to light that this other fellow crashed his Olympos on his Rockport and it required sending the cartridge back to Lyra for a rebuild. |
Hi Danhirsh,
IMO, BRF is a philosopher with a very, very, firm grounding...Dover has real words of wisdom...along with Syntax and Lewm having very valuable experience that has an open transparency to their learning curves on their system pages...the Walker comes with Lloyd, the cool resident mad-hatter of the audio manufacture's guild...the Sirius lll has the genius of Andy and the daily consulting rate of Tim :)...as you can see on my page, I have happily fallen into the string-driven big Micro Seiki camp; with the kind encouragement and guidance of Syntax; however, he thinks that I am mad with this ringing SX-8000 platter :).
IMHO, if I was personally looking for a modern direct drive solution, I
would Siriusly checkout this new Grand Prix Audio Monaco 1.5 solution. It is a well-thought out approach by a company that has a history of good solution sets and a broad dealer network.
So, IMHO, there is no perfect solution only a commitment to a process orientation when it comes to this audio virus.
Best,
Alan |
Hi Lewm,
IMHO, the Rockport is really an integrated engineering marvel.
As you know, with all tonearms there are some cartridges that are just a better fit than others; otherwise, just as Syntax mentioned above, it can be a very risky endeavor when running a light VTF Olympos with the Rockport tonearm. The previous owner from whom I purchased the Sirius lll, did crash his Olympos and the cartridge required a roundtrip air-lift flight from the Seattle area to Lyra for rehabilitation...no, no, no...
...now, there is this wonderful audio chap that I know that is just really MAD about the Rockport turntables. He is building an audiophile's basketball team and needed to finish out his starting lineup...a Tex Winter Triangle Offense.
...so he now has 3 lll's, and 2 ll's...a glorious starting 5 for Team Sirius! Well, there is also the rumor of a possible one-off V.
He prefers the Koetsu Stonebodies and Goldfinger cartridges interfacing the groves with his Rockports; he tells me there is no latent hop, skip, and/or jump problems with these hold-me down babies.
Lewm, I hope this helped!
Best,
Alan |
Mike L. and myself smoked the peace-pipe late last night.
Raul, I guess some distortions are more preferred than others; that may explain the many camps of TT fanatics. As it has been pointed out by others much smarter than myself, sometimes the feeling of "better" is just synonymous with "different-in-kind."
Cheers! |
