Field coil dava cartridge

@rauliruegas 

Your insight into cartridges and analyzing them are very much appreciated.

I look forward to reading them …

Interacting in these forums is excellent for us as we pursue the holy grail of music and learn from each other . 

Dear @newtoncr  : From several years nowI don't only like the SME 30 but I recomended along your V tonearm that I owned.

Now, if it's true that the Kondo silver wires are and have top quality performance the silver internal V wires are really good and perhaps the lower capacitance internal silver wires.

Now, Audio Note UK started there with on sale the AN Kondo audio items and latter on no more Kondo from Japan but they knew everything about Kondo designs and build quality and parts devices and talking of tonearm rewiring the ones by AN UK are second to none and " inexpensive " against the Kondo ones. You can read here about and I can tell you too that its IC cables are first rate too:

audionote.co.uk/wires

I own those wires and fulfill my targets. Many times wires and IC cables are system dependent but these silver rewiring Audio Note are not.

Btw, Lyra is one of my high always welcomed cartridge but the Olympos that as his designer posted time ago is " colored ".

In this forum there are several audiophiles that like Lyra and Ortofon too, me between them, and @mijostyn  just bougth the new MC diamond but before he decided for the MC Diamond he was behind the Verissimo and not only he and me but other gentlemans would like to know your first hand experiences with. Of course that that is appreciated.

R.

@rauliruegas IMO for my taste , the Lyra was a clear winner over the ortofon verisimo. Music had more layers , more detail , much larger soundstage and much more dynamics. The verisimo was softer and much smaller( the sound stage ) and lacked the various hues and layers the Lyra revealed . The Lyra sounded more like my reel tape machine  playing 1/2” dubs at 30ips. 

@newtoncr 

 the Lyra was a clear winner over the ortofon verisimo. Music had more layers , more detail , much larger soundstage and much more dynamics. The verisimo was softer and much smaller( the sound stage ) and lacked the various hues and layers the Lyra revealed .

Did you compare the cartridges on the same tonearm - run both the Ortofon & Lyra on both tonearms or are you describing the Kuzma/Lyra vs the SME/Ortofon ?

@dover I can see where your interception is coming from, it is better to assess with all available ancillaries that are in use and can be interfaced with, prior to making a final decision.

I do not use Cartridges of this Pedigree or Monetary Value but do use Ortofon as my preferred Brand, especially ones which will have earlier generation technologies similar to the most recent models available.

My experiences have led me to remove Tonearms from use that have been perceived as impeding my choice of Cartridge. Keeping the Tonearm in use that enabled the Cart' to be perceived as performing at its most attractive for my needs.

This line of investigation if all items of interest are available to be tried out within a short time of duration between demonstrations is worthwhile.