Opus 1 on SME 3012R and Grado Epoch3 on Bergmann Odin, or Opus 1 on Bergmann Odin and Epoch3 on SME 3012R?

[Ron Resnick]

If you had the Air Tight Opus 1 and the Grado Labs Epoch3 cartridges, and if you had the SME 3012R and the Bergmann Odin tonearms, which cartridge would you match with which tonearm -- and why?

What is your personal experience with these particular combinations?

 

[ddk]

If you had the Air Tight Opus 1 and the Grado Labs Epoch3 cartridges, and if you had the SME 3012R and the Bergmann Odin tonearms, which cartridge would you match with which tonearm -- and why?

What is your personal experience with these particular combinations?

Dear Ron,
There’s a matter of size to consider here the Epoch doesn’t fit in the SME headshell without modification. That might be the deciding factor here even if from experience both cartridges sound great with the SME.

david

 

[bonzo75]

If you had the Air Tight Opus 1 and the Grado Labs Epoch3 cartridges, and if you had the SME 3012R and the Bergmann Odin tonearms, which cartridge would you match with which tonearm -- and why?

If I had them, I would put each one on each arm, or get someone to do it, listen, and make up my mind. And post videos of each combination

 

[Ron Resnick]

. . . And post videos of each combination

At least such videos, if done carefully and conscientiously, would be much more valid than random System A versus System B videos because here only the cartridge tonearm combination would change, and everything else would be held constant.

 

[Ron Resnick]

I have come to the view that the Grado Epoch3 is not likely to be a good compliance match for the air-bearing, linear tracking Bergmann Odin.

 

[Solypsa]

Would like to understand why?

 

[ddk]

I have come to the view that the Grado Epoch3 is not likely to be a good compliance match for the air-bearing, linear tracking Bergmann Odin.

or get another 3012-R and use any cartridge you like with it!

david