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What I find interesting is that none of the Japanese store that sell cartridges for domestic marker sell the Shelter 90X. Who knows, perhaps the 90X is the big conspiracy between Shelter and US importers who decided to capitalize on the success of Shelter 901 but did not have a change to jack up the price for 901 and therefore they invented the 90X.

Interestingly that do presume that 90X and 901 have sonic differences but do they have beneficial sonic differences? I do not know the answer. The reviewers say that they do… playing their turntables via A/D processors and writing the RIAA curve on digital domain…

In the end, I had a good experience with 90X vs. 901 a few weeks back. I had a visitor. One of the 90X, 901dealers who sold huge number of them and who very confidently and very convincingly descries the differences between the 90X vs. 90. As far as I concern the guy is completely clueless about what he hears and what he understand in the heard. However, he spent a few hours to listing my installation, and I play to him stereo analog with Shelter 901. Then we went out to have a diner where he very assertively was taking about all imaginable aspects of sound, at least in the way how he understands it. I asked him about the 90X vs. 901, he but replied with the textbook phrases and then ask in a different format. I asked:

“The analog Sound that you juts hear in my room was coming from Shelter 901. Could you describe how different my sound would be if instead the 901 I would be using the 90X?”

Interestingly tat the guy knew that I have no problems to buy tomorrow 90X. However, he this time knew that if he would say their typical “90X has richer midrange” then I would immediately ask if he detected any problems with my current midrange. So, what the guy’s answer to me was quite unexpected for me, primary because it was one of the very few moments where a dealer says actually “True”. The guy said that he had no idea if I need Shelter 90X, and had no idea how my playback would sound differently if the Shelter 90X was used.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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