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Possible, with all my conversation about Mantis I do not remember I ever made any guess or assumption how it might sound. In horns, I feel I am qualified to make sometimes very bold assessments with very high precession about the sound of the things without even listing the installation. I might do it because I know patterns and have an experience to hear many elements and the connections of the elements. In cartridges I am clueless about design element and the implication of design chooses to sound. For instance to me it sounds ridicules that he offers a selection of cantilevers, body and the tips. I do appreciate however that he assures the chose will not affect the sound of the cartridges. So, I would not make presumption how is sound as ‘drdna’ did. Perhaps he has his own reasons, perhaps he can share them.
I was trying to make some very bogus calculations and assumptions in my head from a few things that Andre told but I was not able to. Andre has 3012 tonearm that he does not like and prefer to Micro Seiki MA77 tonearm. I well know MA77 (I had all Micro arms), consider it a good arm but having it right along width 3012 I found that SME (with my typical incase of effective mass to 25-30g) is richer , way more superior in bass and less “shallow” of I might say so. All my foundlings were in context of my cartridges that are not Mantis but the same way all Andre’s foundlings were in context of his ported mini-monitors. So, how to reconcile all of it? The Cat |