Soundsmith - Thank you to everyone.
Beautiful
Too beautiful to go back to sleep
The morning sprite before the sun
black silhouetted trees that edge the world
respeak stillness as night’s undone
in quiescent twilight day is birthed
So perfect in its offering
infinite outcomes by love conceived
Immaculately separate from our suffering
To taste the dew that’s offered up
One would have to sacrifice
The comfort of one’s darkened view
The tradeoff believed that will suffice
So it’s a crow that breaks the dawn
Unravels peace that must unwind
And signals end to mornings birth
To usher deeds of manunkind
Too beautiful to be believed
timeless in its continuing
Miraculous to be conceived
So fragile in its offering
Peter Ledermann
My sweet old girl Is lost to me again In a world Of her mind Chasing Smells Butterflies Other beach puppies A ragged stick Torn from a rootball By the tide Chasing the rainbow But not the bridge Tide rips move Tennis balls in the Sound She flips her tail At the triumphant turn The salt in her coat Sparkles like diamonds In the setting Summer solstice Sun |
I love it. Yours?? Beautiful. I get it. https://www.sound-smith.com/memoriam Mine for Sprout. She stuck around after my wife died to take carer of me. Now I have Azul - a mystical Blue Merle Aussie who got loose at 12 weeks old and trekked more than half a mile through brambles inside of 80 acres, to pass out on my porch. Best part - a psychic told me two months before, that a new dog was coming into my life. I asked him where did I have to search - where to go to find it? He said - "Do nothing. He is coming to find you." I cannot describe how bonded we are. He came to rescue me and my soul and heart after so much loss. Peter Ledermann "Proof of God is necessarily limited to a triad - 100% Kona coffee, Cheese and Dogs". |
@retipper Very diplomatic answer, but i’m curious about inspiration, as i can see your friend Frank Schröder is definitely inspired by classic tonearm design from the past, his Model B looks like very old Grey Research and related tonearms. As far as i know B&O developed their cartridges before you signed contract with them to improve the line of B&O carts. This is a predecessors of SoundSmith own line of cartridges? I have seen some damping materials in MC designs turn to cracked stone in 2 years, ones I assume worked extremely well when new. Many of us here collect vintage MC cartridges, turntables and tonearms and rate them high even in comparison to the new ones. Suspension of some brand new cartridges sometimes fail quicker than old ones. One example of LOMC cartridges with suspension that never fails is FR-7fz designed by Ikeda-San. A low compliance heavy monster, but Air-Core Coil, we have huge fan club of this series on audiogon. Others are 40 years old and work perfectly. At least you said that, fair enough. It is true, because there are great cartridges that passed the time test and works just fine. Those were made with the right combination of materials. Some materials are no longer available like Beryllium cantilevers (here is a Gold-Plated Beryllium that was an ideal material according to the old AT engineer later replaced with Gold-Plated Boron on another version of AT-ML180) or Hollow Pipe Boron cantilevers with ultra low mass or like this Grace LEVEL II BR/MR with micro ridge stylus tip mounted without glue (a tip mounting hole made using a laser beam). or this short gemstone cantilever invented by Dr.Tominary of Dynavector. Or that strange gemstone cantilever/stylus made from one piece of diamond by Sony (model 88D). Way different technology that we do not see anymore in modern design. Ikeda LOMC cantilever-less design or cantilever-less Decca MI or Victor Direct-Coupled MC recently improved and used by Audio-Technica ART-1000 when you reduce the moving mass dramatically as I have done and cannot be done in MC designs, damping becomes orders of magnitude easier and more efficient. A win-win. So there is no telling - even if I DO tell you of some I love, how you will find good ones? I will. I have museum of vintage cartridges on my records shelf. But this is not the advice for me to buy what you liked, it is something that inspired you with your huge experience in rebuilt. It’s about clever design. Something rare and interesting.
I’m curious, what is a well designed MM/MI or MC from the past (not new) in your opinion ? I’ve never sent any vintage cartridge for rebuilding yet, just because my favorite vintage MM, MI and MC are just fine, i use time machine to travel back in the 80’s to find them. |
