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Antonio J. wrote:

Well, I don't know if there's something wrong with the platter and I'd like to know it. All I know is that lower bass has kind of "detachement" from the mid-upper bass, that I don't hear from the tuner nor the DAC.

If it doe not happen on all recording but only on foe ten flipping of ability polarity switch would help. If it happens with all recordings then time-align the LF channel, reduces it at minus 2-3dB and forces yourself to listen at bass-reduced level for a direction of at least 2-3 weeks. What it boils down that some of the bad LF sections (I do not know what you use BTW) raise acoustic pressure of LF in a room faster then the rise tonal pressure… Your problems defiantly might be due to many other reasons but I would start from that I have mentioned and analog gave the most demanding bass among all other sources.

Antonio J. wrote:

It's not that I want to find a most-dynamic cart-tonearm combo, but to know which is in your opinion, of your current carts and tonearms, the pair that dynamically is performing better, and if any, what are the trade offs you find. I suppose that there's no perfect combination and possibly you end up liking some combination for some precise record, and other one for a different disc, but in spite of that, it could happen that you found some pairing specially good from the dynamics point of view. It's possible too that my former observations were wrong and the "righter" music I perceived had nothing to do with dynamics. To me it's very difficult to correlate music and the way I interact with it and the "sonics", although I can detect a wrong sonic performance. At least I get acceptable music, which is way more than I was able two years ago ;-)

Hm… yes and no. I do not match cartridges with tonearms to a large degree. Peaty much if I could (and probably I should) I would have all my 6 tonearms presented with six 3012 of higher affective mass. My arms more have functional separation then matching. Anyhow, my “references tonearm” with witch I play good and cleaned stereo records of general music is 3012R with 18G in headshell paired with Shelter 901

Rgs,
Romy

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