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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable

Post Subject: That is not so simple.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/20/2015

Stitch wrote:
The Manufacturer told us, from the Performance quality this Model 3 is only in lower Bass not of par with Model One/Two....

This sound very reasonable to me and my compliment to the Manufacturer. However, there is an intricate notion in this. Pretend that we have two TechDas or Micro TTs that we need to “compare” and pretend that we able to setup both of them in order each of TTs do their best. Yes the main difference between the two TT would be in lower bass but it is not so simple. The difference in the bass will be observable but to have with absolute serenity which one is better is not so simple. You can hear the difference “as is” and to say what bass is “better” (this is simple) but it would be true ONLY for your current configuration. How about if you drop your VTF for 0.1g or load your cartridge for 20R lower, or lowering the prissy in suspension platform for 20pci, or does other 290493 things that impact bass …. Suddenly the TT that was questionably the bass winner initially might not be the winner anymore. It is just like going to negative output impedance with your bass amplification – a person feel that he “lost bass” and it sound certainly worse and the person is not understand that he juts canceled out the primary driver resonance (upon which his speaker was build) and not in order to get the same bass it need to be used different methods, witch in fact would yield much better bass then before.

I do not say that change cartridge/TT configuration might compensate something and accidently compliment belter bass performance in “loosing” TT but unfortunately it very much might be a case. It is not to mention that most of the TT users out there do not go to the realm of bass performance what the difference between the TechDas bass is truly matter. For instance I know one AIR Force 1 user and I do respect his judgment. However, I also know that he has an acoustic system that that in my estimation does not do right things under 40-50Hz. Is so, then how shall I perceive his comments about the difference between AF1 bass, 8000’s bass and 927 bass? I have no doubts that the difference is there and he might very accurately name it but how important this difference is. I did not detect that any of TTs active in him a drive to make his playback to have better bass. If so then I perceive the different at the level of juts audio “small talk”.

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