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Air Tight ATM-300R or Shindo Cortese 300B
Air tight 300r felt too laid-back for my taste. Lacking excitement and fire within. Audio Note UK sounded too much of their own house sound. A bit warm and slow. Wavac, Border Patrol & Shindo are very good 
Preamp for ATCSCM40A
Having used many of the Naim components and also an ATC user for few years. Couple of things I learnt1. Powerlines are poor stuff. Replace it with Naim standard power cord (the free one) and watch the magic come back.2. Power conditioners like QBA... 
Tone of Shindo
Shindo is anything but tone "correct" 
LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING
IME, there is no component (nothing) that sounds "bad", "horrible", "wrong" out of the box, and turns into a good, great, fantastic after x hours. The real character is audible within the first hour. After that it is only about smoothening out and... 
LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING
I too have found the Helikon to be a wonderful cartridge. Always heard it on a Lp12 with Aro tonearm. But never heard the same balance in a Delos. 
LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING
As someone who runs both a Shelter 7000 and Lyra Kleos, I can say w/o hesitancy that I love both. The presentations are much different and that why I love them - Shelter is smooth and laid back while the the Lyra has more immediacy and slam. Sl... 
LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING
Get a Shelter 901mk2 or Shelter Accord. Even a Dynavector XX2 mk2 is good. You will be happy.Btw, I have heard the Delos sounding shrill, thin, digital as well as nice & analog. You can't do anything now with it if it is not sounding your way.... 
100 watts enough?
Pressurizing a large room with full range of the notes is more than just db at the listening chair.  
100 watts enough?
For your room size and speaker, no matter how soft you listen, you will enjoy more with a juicy powerful amp. Get a Symphonic Line Kraft 
Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition
Btw, when you put on a Michael Jackson record on a $15k TT and don't feel like dancing to the rhythm, there is something wrong. Is it wow, flutter, da da da da, I don't know. But It happens very often in high end audio. Thats why most audio demons... 
Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition
Exactly! what the artist actually created, when it gets messed up during reproduction, is what we are talking about. You do not hear it, thats awesome. I also would like to be in your position. It is not about what I "think" I hear. I know what I ... 
Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition
@mijostyn, if everything about music reproduction was technically measurable then 1. Almost all TTs should more or less similar2. We would not need anything more than a Technics SL1200 for a near perfect music reproduction.When we "audiophiles" sa... 
Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition
pani, define “belt drive-ish flow”. A more continuous sound with not so sharp start-stop transients 
Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition
Nice one @mijostyn 
Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition
Having heard the 301, Lenco and 124 in the same systems, I felt the 124 sounds the most refined with a more belt drive-ish flow and momentum. But I agree it sounds more idler type when compared to a TD 125, (heard in the same system)