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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Buying a last cartridge.
Post Subject: Mantis vs JubileePosted by drdna on: 9/7/2008
 starboy wrote: |
| In the thread I wrote there is another Mantis owner Bauzace50 (a noted gentleman to myself in terms of transducers) who had a Jubilee as his reference and that with no second thought hit the Bay. |
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Did you mean the Ortofon Jubilee or the Decca London Jubilee?
By the way the other Decca cartridges are in no way comparable to the Jubilee and Reference. It would be an error to disregard these two based on one's experience with the other Decca cartridges.
In fact for most people's taste, the Reference should not be compared to the Jubilee; it is in all regards in a totally different stratosphere for most audiophile concerns, with the singular exception of a slight loss of connection to the Sound.
The Mantis sounds like an interesting cartridge, of which I have heard BUT have never heard in my system. It might be a candidate for the second arm on my turntable versus the Reference depending on what it specifically does with the music correctly and incorrectly. In what areas does it subtract and add to the music? How does it affect one's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual connection to the music and the musicians, etc...?
Perhaps if Romy buys one, I will be able to listen to it. 
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