What’s best forum eDava fc1a a bridge between two continents
First of all I want to thank those who with their commitment give us the opportunity to compare our Audiophile experiences with those of others by putting in touch people who would never have met if it were not for What’s Best forum. I believe that it is not the first time that two people who participate in this forum meet sharing their experiences not only as pen pals but also in person. I know that there is already a thread that talks about this magnificent cartridge but I believe that what happened last week at my house deserves a thread all its own. It all started like this for fun in the month of March/April when I asked inside the thread if there was anyone available to let me audition for the Dava FC1 a. One of the forumers, Kcin, (“'DaVa FC-A1 a field coil contender'https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/dava-fc-a1-a-field-coil-contender.30720/post-957073”)
answering me almost as a joke offered to let me try the Dava in exchange for a good bottle of wine and some Italian cheese. without making me repeat it twice I made myself available to host him, without knowing that this little prank would have forced him to take a fifteen hour flight to reach my city.. in the following days we started exchanging emails trying to find compatible dates for both of us to realize this audiophile madness. Obviously I can only be grateful to Nick who a month before arriving in Palermo, with a pure act of faith and madness decided to send me the Dava and everything that was necessary to make it play (a suitcase of over 30kg). who among you would send your precious equipment to a complete stranger? all this to get to last week when Nick and his wife landed in Palermo. from the first evening we started listening to music by putting on the Dava. Apart from a few small problems then brilliantly solved by Nick, caused by the shippers to the valve power supply of the Dava, we spent the afternoons of an entire week listening to wonderful music alternating the Dava with my MSL Signature Platinum. my impressions of the dava often agree with what you wrote previously. The sense of rhythm and the organicity of this head are incredible. it gave us a series of nuances that made my skin crawl. its great expressiveness left me speechless. the low range is absolutely first class, making us jump from the sofa in front of the bass drum of the firebird of the reference recording, the hits in addition to being extremely defined had a terrifying explosiveness that shook you as if hit by a sudden slap. not to mention "take five" in the original stereo edition, when, while a wide smile appeared on my face at the smell of the skins run over by joe Morello, I turned around and saw Nick who, by tapping his hand and foot, followed the overwhelming rhythm of this wonderful song. another thing that I really liked is the timbre of the instruments like in Kogan's violin in Beethoven's violin concerto that in addition to giving us the nuances that this gigantic violinist was capable of, gave us a thickness of the strings and a beautiful decadence of the notes. Obviously I don't want to say that we found ourselves in front of perfection, first because my system certainly does not represent the maximum expression of high end, (Vpi, allnic and Mbl) and then because in some parameters the My sonic lab was a little more advanced, but overall I think that many of us could live with this cartridge as the only instrument for the reproduction of our beloved records. one last thing this gave fc 1a maintains its original body but mounts the reference engine. I would like to underline how this experience gave me the warmth and friendship of Nick and his wife Mary who despite the language barrier immediately formed a good bond with my wife Antonella.
First of all I want to thank those who with their commitment give us the opportunity to compare our Audiophile experiences with those of others by putting in touch people who would never have met if it were not for What’s Best forum. I believe that it is not the first time that two people who participate in this forum meet sharing their experiences not only as pen pals but also in person. I know that there is already a thread that talks about this magnificent cartridge but I believe that what happened last week at my house deserves a thread all its own. It all started like this for fun in the month of March/April when I asked inside the thread if there was anyone available to let me audition for the Dava FC1 a. One of the forumers, Kcin, (“'DaVa FC-A1 a field coil contender'https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/dava-fc-a1-a-field-coil-contender.30720/post-957073”)
answering me almost as a joke offered to let me try the Dava in exchange for a good bottle of wine and some Italian cheese. without making me repeat it twice I made myself available to host him, without knowing that this little prank would have forced him to take a fifteen hour flight to reach my city.. in the following days we started exchanging emails trying to find compatible dates for both of us to realize this audiophile madness. Obviously I can only be grateful to Nick who a month before arriving in Palermo, with a pure act of faith and madness decided to send me the Dava and everything that was necessary to make it play (a suitcase of over 30kg). who among you would send your precious equipment to a complete stranger? all this to get to last week when Nick and his wife landed in Palermo. from the first evening we started listening to music by putting on the Dava. Apart from a few small problems then brilliantly solved by Nick, caused by the shippers to the valve power supply of the Dava, we spent the afternoons of an entire week listening to wonderful music alternating the Dava with my MSL Signature Platinum. my impressions of the dava often agree with what you wrote previously. The sense of rhythm and the organicity of this head are incredible. it gave us a series of nuances that made my skin crawl. its great expressiveness left me speechless. the low range is absolutely first class, making us jump from the sofa in front of the bass drum of the firebird of the reference recording, the hits in addition to being extremely defined had a terrifying explosiveness that shook you as if hit by a sudden slap. not to mention "take five" in the original stereo edition, when, while a wide smile appeared on my face at the smell of the skins run over by joe Morello, I turned around and saw Nick who, by tapping his hand and foot, followed the overwhelming rhythm of this wonderful song. another thing that I really liked is the timbre of the instruments like in Kogan's violin in Beethoven's violin concerto that in addition to giving us the nuances that this gigantic violinist was capable of, gave us a thickness of the strings and a beautiful decadence of the notes. Obviously I don't want to say that we found ourselves in front of perfection, first because my system certainly does not represent the maximum expression of high end, (Vpi, allnic and Mbl) and then because in some parameters the My sonic lab was a little more advanced, but overall I think that many of us could live with this cartridge as the only instrument for the reproduction of our beloved records. one last thing this gave fc 1a maintains its original body but mounts the reference engine. I would like to underline how this experience gave me the warmth and friendship of Nick and his wife Mary who despite the language barrier immediately formed a good bond with my wife Antonella.
