Long story short - I would buy it and the SUT if I were you.
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Long story short - I would buy it and the SUT if I were you.
I told Darius I will test with the PSU supplied and my excellent Excel Sound Corp SUT over the summer! Darius has holidays anyway!!
First impression is overwhelming! And this is without having finetuned the VTA, azimuth, overhang….and Darius says I must play it in at least 20 hours! Impressive! Great soundstage, strong, deep base with good contour, open midrange, good on voices with extended highs! Overall extremely good dynamics exaggerated by the beautiful EMT 927!
The tube PSU is a noticeable improvement and well worth the money.
Yes with a 927 I can’t imagine wanting to ever bother with any other source ever again. You surely can’t get more musically addictive.
I got tube psu and selenium one from Darius. Tube one is much better and you can easily adjust the voltage. Great stuff!
I strongly recommend SUT from Darius for MM section in phono stage. Works perfectly
I’m DaVa’ing. But work still to do….
hi Tang, the CS Port static eliminator. it really works and puts the effect directly on the record. reduces, eliminates clicks and pops, reduces the tendency to attract dust. probably not as critical in a tropical humid climate.
I have always thought of tonearms as a sonic variable independent of specific amplifier or specific speaker topologies.
I think it would be interesting if you would please start a thread expounding on this point.
he might refer to the advantages of linear trackers are more evident in lo watt se /hieff systems cruising along on a watt or two....
I often find linear trackers to be wimpish, lack bass, or the authority of pivots and the structure in some set ups. Pivots do the structured layering and soundstage better. LTs do a different type of stage, not the same as pivots, relatively more unstructured and music is just there kind of thing, which I think suits SETs horns. I will change my opinion if I hear the CS Port do well at Mike's. I find the immediacy, agility and nuance of LTs works better with lower watt SETs and higher efficieny drivers which all supplement each others strengths and therefore excel together on that front
Not interested in a thread. No point on arguing on this in theory
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When you write "linear trackers" are you including both air-bearing tube-type linear trackers and pivoting linear trackers? If not, do you find that pivoting linear trackers recover some of the bass and authority lost by air-bearing tube-type linear trackers, and can offer much of the best characteristics of both air-bearing tube-type linear trackers and of traditional pivoting tonearms?
PS: I had no desire to argue theory with you. I have numerous data points of experience with both types of linear trackers, and with both types of stereo systems.
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My pseudo-theory fwiw - very high efficiency horns coupled to very clean and well designed low wattage SETs have the ability to reveal micro nuances and information like no other transducers. They can be an electron microscope on the recording. Linear trackers with the right cart also excel at retrieving micro nuances and information more so than most pivoted arm ime. Therefore couple the 2 together and the horn/set has the ability to reveal what is extracted by the LT/cart. This would otherwise be lost in say an inefficient cone system with 1000 watts of ss up its butt.
My data points are numerous on Vyger alone, some 8 or 9 and counting, and then Bergmann Sindre in 3, Galder in 1, both Sindre and Vyger in both type. Versa Dynamics in 1. CS Port lower model in 1, Goldmund reference in one HE system, Kuzma Airline with multiple cones and horns though always with SETs/low watt push pull. In Pivoted LTs, Schroder LT in 1, and Reed 5T in Cones.
I don't yet know if pivoted LTs are same as LTs. You will have to go to Anamighty and do a controlled experiment with Schroder LT, Reed 5T, and CS Port in both types of systems. Or add in Thales Statement to the mix.
The other thing is the positive experiences could be cartridge dependent so tough to confirm yet, as I have had negative experiences also with linear trackers in HE systems.
Only thing is I can take the positive experiences and decide on it as a package. Hence can't argue theory as you will really have to line them up. Pivoted LTs bring out best of both types is also theory. Not saying it cannot be correct, but I do not know.
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My hunch (and it is nothing more than that) is that pivoted LTs won’t extract the same level of micro nuances as air bearing LT arms. I got no evidence for this.
high pressure airbearing LTs do NOT sound whimpish in bass, as opposed to aircushion floating LTs IMO
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