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Brian Clark wrote:

I will be VERY interested in your more thorough evaluation. I hummed and hawed between the CG 25Dia and the SPU Mono before springing for the latter, expected next week. My speakers could do with a bit of upper bass help.

It was in interesting day: I spent most of it listing. I friend of mine sent me a new amp to test, the new Mono cartridge, a pile of new records….

The 25Dia lost some of it's virginity and I did play with it a little. Generally I was able to get the bass out of it and it now does OK bass.  As I said before – the 25Dia is more neutral and more high-tech sounding cartridge then SPU-mono. It more evenly balanced faster and less attracting attention to itself. It slightly zippier then I would like, perhaps it will go away in a few days. However, despite that I feel that 25Dia is higher performance cartridge I still feel that the sound of SPU has own rational, even more: now I am missing it. That SPU’s upper bass forwardness (about witch I complained) combined with some softness and the subdued flashiness was very interesting and created own delightfulness and beauty. I understand that it was sort of glorification of music, even up to the point of embellishment, but it had own sense and at the level HOW it was done I find it was very interesting.

Now I am spinning the Beecham’s “Carmen” with Victoria de los Angeles form 1952. I wrapped my tweeters in toilet paper and it sound more or less OK. With SPU I did not use the toilet paper on my tweeters. Also the voices and instruments sounded with SPU kind of reached and nobler… Perhaps the SPU and 25Dia have the different breaking-in patterns. Will see in a week…

Rgs,
The cat

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