213cobra
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| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? Rower,You didn't add enough mass using one of those headshell plates, to put the 103R in its operating range. In fact you wouldn't want to add at the headshell all the mass necessary to load your light tonearm to the effective mass needed for that... | |
| Phono preamp selection The Jasmine LP2.0se will handily outperform every phono pre on your list, and offers up to 70db gain.Phil | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Regarding the Soul Response Graph:I had an email exchange with Sean Casey regarding the smoothness of his published Soul Superfly response graph and its credibility in the context of prior measured response of other Zu speakers, most notably JA's ... | |
| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? >>Yes, a heavier arm is better for the MC pick-ups, but an AC-2 is not what I would call very "low" complinace. Yes, the DENON 103r is (about 1/3 as compliant). One of the major factors in all this is indeed the compliance of the cartridge m... | |
| What MC for $1,000-$2,000? The cartridge is fine but it's not a good match for your tonearm, and the tonearm isn't a good match to the Denon 103R. The SME III is too light by a wide margin. You had prior success with the 103D because it is more than twice as compliant as th... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly I've seen the predecessor finishes to the Soul matte standard finish, on other Zu speakers. Sean Casey assures me this is better still. Every time he's told me that in the past, regarding improvements to their paint, he's proven correct. For anyon... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly >>What can you say about the cosmic carbon?<<I think it's black, with highlights and character. I haven't seen that finish. My friend ordered his speakers with a custom color. I have seen other Zu colors in the kind of paint used for C... | |
| Sonist I heard Randy's late development speakers and the production versions now and then since. He has refined sonic judgment for what sounds good and his design principles are solid -- simple as possible without going all the way to an FRD, 2-way, 1st ... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly >>Am I being a jerk for saying "Zu is too perfect!!"? Maybe, although that is not my intention. I am big fan of company and speakers. I am simply pointing out that this change is so dramatic, I'd love to see it verified by an independent thi... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Zanon,The actionable part of Atkinson's empirical evaluation of Essence was this:"In many ways, the Zu Essence is an underachiever, measurement-wise. But the surprise for me, when I auditioned it in AD's room, was how much of its measured misbehav... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Tim,Occasionally a room poses too many problems to sound right with a given speaker, until you address the room. It sounds like you have done so.The Druid floor-to-plinth gap was crucial to get right, to get correct balance out of the speaker belo... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly >>When did you get a chance to hear the Soul?<<A friend of mine here in L.A. bought what turned out to be the first pair, s/n 0001/0002. They were a custom order configuration and finish. He took delivery about a month ago and I've lis... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Zanon,I (or you) would have to ask Sean Casey about specifics on his frequency response/impedance graph. I haven't even discussed it. Perhaps the data informing the graph was normalized. Of course, to me, Soul *does* sound smoother than Essence, t... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Tim,Can you explain the conflict between Druids and your room? What did you hear that led you to believe you couldn't "really get the Druids set up in a way that worked" in your room? Yet you ended up with speakers that worked better but you never... | |
| Zu Soul Superfly Definition has always measured quite flat and yet it is a deeply toneful speaker. Flat-measuring speakers that get that way through complex crossovers with steep driver contouring do tend to sound like anything *but* flat and are irritating for ma... |