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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: The mystery of Koetsu Onyx Cartridges.

Post Subject: Listening the files. Brief comments.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/15/2011

The whole presentation of sound is very different with your and my file. Your file is very lush sounding. It is very pleasant but a bit too euphoric for THIS music. My file is much more dynamic (if comes from my transformer) and in the way this dynamic range literally tear apart imaging. The speakers need to be positioned different to handle this dynamics. My file has more colors and the colors are a bit more aggressive. This is from my cartridge in my view that has some sort of swift colors, something that I get accustomed. I do like the pastel nobility of your cartridge, to get that pastel, lash and luxury nobility was the reason I was buying my Onyx but it did not sound even remotely useful. At my file you will see a lot of very finer micro-dynamic, all that strings bite and so on. The articulation of individual instruments and groups is much more expressive at my file, I do not know what is responsible for it. My file a bit zippier and I do not like it. I know where it come from and I could easily get read of it during play (demagnetize the cartridge) but I did not do it. Your file has better special presentation; it comes with some compression territory I presume.

Generally I feel that your file is more organically balanced then my, more musical. My file makes sound a bit too barbaric. My problem is that I kind of like Stravinsky this way. Ironically, playing the more moderate and more conservative music I feel that “barbarism” doe not manifest its, in fact it always good to have some of it to spare.

The result I observe are pretty much what I expected and it was what I meant saying that my analog setup shall sound different. I do have Ortofon SPU Classic that I play when I would like to have the type of sound that your playback demonstrated. Unfortunately I feel that Ortofon SPU Classic is a bit too week needle. I think Koetsu a bit rehabilitated in my eyes. I still among all Koetsu I would like to hear the Vintage Rosewood that a friend of my told and somebody had mention in this thread before. I think that Rosewood made name for Koetsu and then they just keep produce average cartridges and milk the Koetsu Rosewood success. Well, what make them different from anybody else?

I wish somebody with Koetsu Rosewood would do own vision of the file. It is not that I am looking for cartridges but it would be interesting for educational purpose.

The Cat

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