Hear my Cartridges....🎶
Finally the Glanz seems to have run-in so that I can settle on the VTF and Loading..... I just hope Maria has put her teeth back in.....😬 GLANZ MFG 610LX (with teeth) GLANZ MFG 610LX Toothless |
@halcro cc @frogman Glanz with teeth - Much better now. Marias voice is more articulated, leading edges of words are clearer, you can hear her chest cavity, more power, dynamic contrasts, tonal colours vastly better - she soars. With regards to the orchestral presentation - much more urgency, instrumental tonal colours much much better to my ears. Woodwinds and strings to me sound much more realistic. For me there is much less compression of sound. Whats your view of the cartridge now ?? |
I like the Glanz 610LX a lot..... I've been thinking for a while now......🤔 You guys can detect the smallest differences between cartridges. You can hear:-
This is really mind-blowing stuff when you think about it...🤯 You're able to detect these differences via the limitations of the YouTube Video!! But can you hear the differences between TURNTABLES??!!! Of course you can....🤪 Many lovers of Belt-Drive claim they can't stand the sound of Direct-Drive 🙉 Good grief.....the entire world of High-End Audio (particularly in Great Britain in the '70s and '80s) began with the 'revolutionary' CLAIM that the 'Turntable' was the most important element of the Audio System!!! Linn, Rega, STD, Pink Triangle, Avid, SME all swamped the turntable market and drove the 'lowly' Japanese-made Direct-Drive industry into a DJ and low-consumer-only product. I bought my first serious Hi-Fi System in 1978 before reading any journals or doing any research. So I bought a Technics SL-1700 with Kenwood Integrated Amp, Tuner, Tape-Deck. As soon as I heard the sound, I was 'hooked' and delved into the world of 'AUDIO'. In Australia at that time, there was no Stereophile or TAS (I learned later that these were 'Underground Magazines'...not available at Newsagents) but we had the British 'Hi-Fi Answers' and 'What Hi-Fi' which were very entertaining and convincing..... After two years of reading 'only' about Linn, Rega and other Belt-Drives...I saw a Rega Planar 3 with Hadcock Arm in the Classifieds (John Russin-"Exotic Stuff Cheap") 🙏 I sold my SL-1700 to a friend at work and set up my new deck.... I was about to experience the 'High-End'....👏 As I worked my way through my modest record collection....I couldn't for the life of me, hear added detail, information or PRAT over the Technics!!!? Was I the victim of a 'scam'....? 🤥🧐 The previous 'blind' cartridge comparison here was great fun...... Why not try it with two turntables? TURNTABLE 1 - Belt-Drive or Direct-Drive? And WHY? TURNTABLE 2 - Belt-Drive or Direct-Drive? And WHY? TURNTABLE 3 - Belt-Drive or Direct-Drive? And WHY? TURNTABLE 4 - Belt-Drive or Direct-Drive? |
Not so easy........? 🤔 I remember years ago, when I stated on another Audio Forum that I couldn't be confident of picking the difference between my Belt-Drive Raven and my Direct-Drive TT-101 in a 'blindfold' test....I was derided as being 'clotheared' 🦻!!! This Test, not only contrasts different turntables....but different arms and cartridges!!!! There MUST be 'differences'??!! Yet no-one can hear them....🤔 What does that say about Audio Reviewers who can prattle on about the differences between a turntable they happen to be currently testing, and others that are no longer in their listening room? They're doing it from MEMORY!!!!! 🤥 So don't give me this drivel about 'attack' and 'sustain' and 'drive' when comparing turntables, tonearms and cartridges. Especially when you're doing it from 'aural' memory 🤪 We're such a gullible lot when comes to 'unprovable' subjective opinions proffered with 'authority' or 'superiority'.....😳 |
@halcro I've actually been busy getting my new ensuite ready for the plumber to hook everything up. I'm happy to give it a go, but in an ideal world I would want the same arm/cartrtidge on both TT's - I believe I could pick it every time in a blind test with the same arm/cartridge. TT1 - DD TT2 - Belt On TT1 I hear grain in the treble region, which I would associate with the Victor. There is also a slight imprecision in the lower base region on TT2 which I have heard on your Raven before. TT3 - DD TT4 - Belt This was much harder to pick - on this recording the bandwidth limiting seems to narrow the differences in the upper mid/lower treble. However again there is a slightly better very low base articulation with TT1, and therefore based on previously hearing the Raven's imprecision in this region, would guess TT1 - Victor, TT2 Raven. Sock it to me - how did I go. |
