Lyra Atlas works beautifully with my Reed 3Q and TW. For me, it has enough bass and slam to satisfy my occasional pop/rock listening but I tend to listen to mostly classical, opera, vocal music, piano and the like. I know some of my friends prefer Graham over Reed. You definitely will get more bass and slam for rock with Graham but I just could not get the same magic in the mid range with Graham as I could with Reed. After playing around with the new Graham 12 inch arm for almost a year, I gave up and sold it to a friend of mine. One arm that perhaps could rival Graham for bass and have mid range that would be closer to Reed that I heard recently is Thales Simplicity. It was quite impressive on TW Raven One with Miyajima Kansui. However, I only heard it briefly at my local dealer. I plan to listen to it more carefully in my system may be in the next 3-4 months but I am a bit too busy right now doing other things with my system so I will wait awhile until my system is a bit more settled before trying auditioning Thales.
Allnic Puritas vs. Koetsu Stone Body
Last time I had an opportunity to compare side by side Koetsu Jade and Koetsu Jade with diamond cantilever.
I must admit that DC Koetsu was simply amazing. Compared with stock Jade it was like completly different cartridge. Much better on frequency extremes, more airy, more precise, better articulation.
After auditioning Jade DC stock Jade sounded not very interesting.
I am considering Koetsu stone body with DC to my system, but think rather about Coralstone DC.
Unfortunately Koetsu cartridges have some flaws.
They do not give the best sound money can buy,
Are overpriced,
Hard to find good match with heavy mass tonearm.
For the Coralstone I was thinking about Origin Live 12" Enterprise C tonearm 22g effective mass.
As an alternative I was thinking about Allnic Puritas cartridge paired with new 12" Reed 3P tonearm.
I know that this is different price poin compared to top of the line Koetsu, but Allnic have some unique features and seems to have some sonic advantages of Koetsu sound.
Table is TW Acustic Raven AC.
Could you kindly share your impresions about above mentioned sets and let me know some advices?
I must admit that DC Koetsu was simply amazing. Compared with stock Jade it was like completly different cartridge. Much better on frequency extremes, more airy, more precise, better articulation.
After auditioning Jade DC stock Jade sounded not very interesting.
I am considering Koetsu stone body with DC to my system, but think rather about Coralstone DC.
Unfortunately Koetsu cartridges have some flaws.
They do not give the best sound money can buy,
Are overpriced,
Hard to find good match with heavy mass tonearm.
For the Coralstone I was thinking about Origin Live 12" Enterprise C tonearm 22g effective mass.
As an alternative I was thinking about Allnic Puritas cartridge paired with new 12" Reed 3P tonearm.
I know that this is different price poin compared to top of the line Koetsu, but Allnic have some unique features and seems to have some sonic advantages of Koetsu sound.
Table is TW Acustic Raven AC.
Could you kindly share your impresions about above mentioned sets and let me know some advices?
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