this was not depending on Coil material or Corpus material. The colibri (in my personal set up) is always sensible in terms go tonearmcable and the correct impedance setting. On some Phonogear I preferred 200ohm with XG P/W , sometimes 500ohm was better. Wrong impedance immediately kills colibri dynamic and tonal balance.
also very important is the balance of tracking force and VTA. The relation changes over the first 300 hours.
As a standard I start with 1.48g and 0.6 on Antiskating, having VTA 1 to 1.5mm higher to the tonearm base.
Than you can iterate over cartridge lifetime. vdh himself likes colibri with around 1.3g after many hours of music on it, I prefer more the 1.4 to 1.45
please no heavy tonearm....
(but vdh can cutomize, if needed)
I used the combination for a while, well working.And what about SPU Silver Meister MKII for the Ikeda IT-407 arm? How do they match?
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