Milan, the Vyger RS was always my favorite but I had not heard it sing outside a very low watt amp single driver type set up. In Dec hearing it with much more powerful amps on a 5-way horn repeat the performance convinced me more of the generic use. To make a general recommendation to SS users I would also need to hear Chris' set up which has Vyger Red Sparrow on Magico M9 and Pilium.
DaVa is a more all rounded cart compared to Red Sparrow, i.e. the latter excels at classical and jazz but DaVa does this well and other bassy club rock you name it. This year I learned that Vyger does add a second arm base, either a second LT or a pivoted arm base so both DaVa and RS can be mounted. So that makes it a slam dunk really. And DaVa works great on SS too.
I think once TTs reach a certain level, there is much less to gain from upgrading on the table itself as compared to getting a tonearm +cart synergy. Sure, you need to keep the bad TTs out. But if you visit Mike, for example, where all TTs are good, it is not so much of choosing a TT alone that is going to influence the sound as compared to who is playing Dava with a well matched arm. I think Vyger is exceptional because it is synergistic with an electrifying arm, through which I, and its users, get the musicality, the flow, the speed and nuance, transparency to recordings, and an effervescence where music is just there. Once you hear Vyger RS tracking properly, everything else sounds stop start or mistracking. It makes me do Elvis like EMT 927, gives me transient dynamics and nuance like the AS 2000, layers like the Techdas, and flows like the water Bruce Lee wanted all hifi to be. Plus, the Indian is way cool looking, will scare cats away from the hifi area, and Atlantis can go on a simple table. In Audioquattr's compares, the Techdas was on a Stacore, nothing was required for Atlantis.
Maybe, for general compliance carts, the primary control field coil that Mike has has similar liquidity and agility, I can't exactly say as experienced it only once without completely isolating it. But hey, those who can afford the field coil PC can afford Vyger with LT and the field coil arm on it or two tables.
I also think just getting more and more expensive TT does not add to the sonic experience. Looks are great, an expensive TT does a bit of this and a bit of that more. Records are way more important for sonics alone too, whatever your price point is. Vyger is an exception that it is already expensive and has a lot of costs going into it, comes with a great arm, less requirement for accessories, is just so much alive and real and not another toy.
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