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| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Hiho - come back! I realise I may have been gushing like a lovesick girl. What would you like to know specifically, that may make you temper your skepticism of me and these products? I''ll kick off by saying that getting a fuctioning direct rim dr... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable 4orreal, point duly taken - no more price comparisons. Just that the Salvation/Terminator really is at the bottom end of pricing in the analog world, and the rig gives me things I haven't heard elswewhere. But point taken, I haven't listened side ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Peter, I'm glad we've calmed the waters on this one. Tbh, I should not have declared so forcibly the Salvation/Terminator "supremacy", and esp. based on price.I'm a pretty picky customer, and have turned down way more things I've heard than I've g... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Gentlemen, I hope my maths aren't incorrect. The Salvation/Terminator is a complete tt/arm combination. It costs £2400 ($5k-$6k w/carriage/US taxes etc). I've heard the Grand Prix Monaco/Triplanar at £32k, SME 20/12 at £30k, TW Acustic AC3/Graham ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Hiho, this hobby produces more than it's fair share of worshippers: plenty worship Magico spkrs, SOTA engineering and SOTA pricing.The Linn Sondek LP12 is maybe the best example, decades of true acolyte like fervour. To those who love it, totally ... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Peter, I'm sorry if my responses are a little too gushing. It is NOT my aim to offend any who've spent substantially on their rig. I'll phrase my comments more diplomatically in future. Just to say that I was ready to drop a lot of cash on the tt/... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Al I know gentlemen, is that the magnetic bearing significantly boosts the performance of the standard Salvation to new levels. Differentiation of complex bass lines, with greater delineation of detail in the mids and high frequencies, is making a... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Tm, get on with it! LOL! The sound is just sublime. With my RWA BL batt powered Soundsmith Straingauge cart, the new magnetic bearing modded Salvation, and most recent Tomahawk wand update to the Terminator arm, really puts this analog rig up ther... | |
| Are there other Artisan Fidelity TT owners aorund? Hey Audiofun, just found this thread. Until 5 years ago, I always put analog ahead of digital, my Michell Orbe/SME 5/Transfiguration Orpheus beating all comers digital. Then I invested in an Emm Labs CDSA SE cdp, and the shortfalls of my lp rig we... | |
| Trans Fi Salvation direct rim drive turntable Just installed Vic's new magnetic bearing upgrade to his Salvation tt, now ZERO physical contact btwn platter and plinth, and newest Tomahawk wand upgrade to his Terminator T3Pro arm.ANOTHER leap fwd. Initial impression, much greater bass propulsi... | |
| My new Soundsmith Straingauge cartridge Thanx Lewm, but happy to stick as is. | |
| My new Soundsmith Straingauge cartridge Nope, no experience with these. I only went down the batt psu route when JFrech mentioned good results with RWA on his nagra phono stage.Ironic, Hynes is in Scotland (me, London). The website looks interesting, and good vfm. Mojo Audio, no comment. | |
| 845 Dilema G'guy. I run Audion Black Shadow SETs w/Shugang 845Bs as standard. Perfectly fine, but I'll be trialling KR845s in the near future, and keep you posted on the results.The advance buzz is that they may be a little leaner with less upper bass/lower ... | |
| My new Soundsmith Straingauge cartridge Cfluxa, better to explain it this way. The Soundsmith Straingauge comes in two parts; the cart and the "energizer" unit. This unit physically powers the cart, and some of the top models act as an all in one preamp --- I have the base model SG200 w... | |
| My new Soundsmith Straingauge cartridge Cfluxa, the cart is powered by the SG200 unit, which has a twin 24V dc psu (two off the shelf wall warts, in effect one per channel). Yes, these in effect are gathering dust. Has been replaced by the single chassis (plus additional charger) batt p... |