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In the Thread: Lithuania enters the game: Reed 12" Tonearm

Post Subject: The Average will become "The Reference"Posted by Stitch on: 11/7/2010

We are in a new chapter of High end:

Copies
Well Tempered: Schroeder
Triplanar : Talea
DaVinci : Reed
What do they have in common?
No own idea
No new calculation
Cheap Arm wands (wood)
Aggressive marketing via Internet with some deaf morons....
and Internet Hype from "customers" who have absolutely no idea from anything. Discussion about compliance?
For what, when the user absolutely no idea from anything ? This discussion is completely useless, because you have so many different Armwands with different resonances and damping abilities (Ceramic, Titan, Steel, Aluminum, Composite materials, Wood, then additional dampening inside and so on...) .
This is what we have today, old Designers (from age) who had some brain, engineered knowledge and an idea what-is-responsible-for-what. Herb Papier (Triplanar) is dead, followed from Tri-Mai who is not able to rethink this design and to improve it, Bob Graham is the only one today who is able to think about it and to find new solutions and so on.
Now we have cheap wood, nicely polished, fitted with huge mark ups to find dealers in the market to get it and to promote it. Yuk.
Sometimes I think, I tree in a forest know more about High end than the users today. Maybe that's the reason why wood is used in so many "designs" today.

Ah, something for amusement:
In Germany a High End Magazine made a comparison between the new Lyra Kleos and the Lyra Titan, they used a Linn Ekos Arm for it, or two, don't know and they switched cartridges for comparison. The result was, "they" claimed the new new Kleos as their new Reference, MUCH better than the Titan at half price (btw. The Titan is discontinued anyway.)

Now a customer in a German Forum bought the Kleos and was (or is) not able to adjust it properly in his - same -Ekos Arm (factory drill with LP12), now he compared the pictures from the magazine and wrote, that the position of the cartridge there is completely different and in a position which is completely wrong to any alignment tools he has.
Now some say, this is quite normal, the cartridges will be always moved in a position for shooting a better pic of it (ha-ha-ha)...

I am pretty sure, they never listened to it.

(I had both cartridges here, the Kleos and the Titan and the difference between them is so huge - Titan can deliver endless more details and has a MUCH deeper soundstage - that even an old, dead, buried dog, 6 feet under, could hear it...)

I know their writer, I was at one of their demos a few years ago, a piece of wood has more brain....*ahem* the circle is closed.

Or?

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