|
|
|
|
Posted by Romy the Cat on
10-25-2018
|
I do not particularly see a problem with 17K cartridge. I don’t
read a full review, scan a few paragraphs and did not find it interesting for
me. The purpose of this writing, like most of the writing from those type of
people, is to convince a reader in something. I do not read the “delegation of convincing
type reviews” for years, I liters want to puke when I made an efforts to read
them. I am attracted to a very different type of writing about audio, when a person
juts sharing his observation on a subject with no idiotic need to convince a
reader in anything. There are some audio sites that give to me this pleasure
and to the best of my knowledge none of the side runners are a part of the
industry establishment.
Two aspects I would like to bring in context of the review
above.
First is that the guys has looks like a large collection of
crappy music, which very much portrays his listening habits and musical preferences.
I do not deny to these people a rights to enjoy whatever crap music they listen
but I absolutely deny them right to express any more of less valuable opinions
about audio reproduction if it is non-classical music repertoire.
Second, the look at his listening room make me to feel very unfortunate
about this guy. This is a typical “sales” room when equipment set to be rotated not to be “lived with”. The reciting
of excessive amount of duplicate equipment do not work for me. I was there myself
and I know that a man does not need it if he does not pay his mortgage by rotating
audio and if he has a seasoned approach to audio hobby.
So, the review is in my view just transitional event: some
kind of garbage music collector got a new cartridge that was given to him to make
him to love it. So, the ceremony worked, the cartridge company wrote out a lost
but hope to recover it by new orders, the online publication printed a “space of
wordings”, the audio reviewer got his “stripes” and everybody move forward. No event. A fart during a hurricane is you ask
me…
|
|
|
|
Posted by Paul S on
10-26-2018
|
OK, I just read most of the cartridge roll out. It turns out that the "reviewer" basically told the Big Dealer what he wanted from the cartridge maker. I guess the reviewer likes small winding, low output MCs ahead of time, so the manufacturer was pre-buttered for this. Not really a review, of course, rather some talk about sound detail comparisons given as reasons to buy it.
Of mild interest to me: the mentioned "voltage amplifier" phono stage that is not a SUT. I will now go to look at this.
Paul S
|
|
|
|
Posted by Paul S on
10-26-2018
|
Correction: The CH brand phono stage I looked at is (of course) a current amplifier, and no reason to be curious about a regular old, typical voltage amplifier. I see there is also a VERY Expensive, 4-chassis version of this (already expensive) phono stage, costing nearly 100k USD. Well, once you know about it, what else can you use with your low output, low impedance 17k cartridge?
Paul S
|
|