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

Post Subject: Overlook while everything goesPosted by Romy the Cat on: 11/7/2010

Stitch, you expressed a very valid point of view. We are at severe devaluation of reference points and nowadays any Moron with a rudimental knowledge of HTML and a few vocal cronies can become a “reputed manufacturer”. A few months ago a guy I know bough a new expensive cartridge by a nowadays famous manufacturer. When he showed it to me before mounting I was surprised that cantilever was free moving when I flip the cartridge in my hands. I told to my guy that the cartridge is defective but he insisted that this is how it was designed. I did not believe my ears and asked “what designed?” He explained to me that the cartridge is made with cantilever having a small sliding table in order to improve playing the records with off center cut center whole. Can you believe that someone has “brain” to design it?

Saying all of it I do not feel that it might be no good solutions from today analog manufacturers. The good solutions very much might show up and it not necessary depending of the knowledge or ability of manufactures to assess what they do. The problem with today manufactures is not that they do not know what they do but that there is no critical perception of what they do. Most of the turntables out there sound like a good CD players from 90s. The reviewers, something that shall be a first echelon of Quality Assurance are fucking joke. 90% of the analog end users are not able to identify a difference between LP and CD or report that this CD are better. Of cause in this environment everything goes. Still, among everything that goes it might be something worthy.

My comments of defense are not about the new Lithuanian tonearm. I do not like that fact that they offer an ambiguity of wand materials – this is bad sigh in my books. However a new arm shall not have own ideas or new calculations – it shall have stable default sound. Has the Lithuanian tonearm it or not is not up to me to think. But I do not deny the arm just because it is a new production. BTW, Arlequen, I did not as much share my euro tastes but informed that Lithuania was very prominent electronic manufacturer country during Russian time.

The Cat

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