My Friend become crazy

gian60

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One my friend near Milano,became suddenly crazy.
He has 4 turntable,TW Raven black night,2 garaged 301 with artisan fidelity plint,sp 10 mk II and is looking MK III and 8/9 tonearm

He has 42 cartridge and the best are Blue Lace,Proteus,XV 1T and 1S,ART 1000,Lyra,Audiotekne,Shilabe,ecc,ecc,and all cartridge with his mc transformer and 4 phono preamp.

but now became crazy telling us he discover MM cartridge that are better than MC cartridge he has and TW has hifi sound while 301 and sp 10 MK III is real sound and we have to listen with MM cartridge and he is buying many MM cartridges.

I will check better after holiday his mood
 

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Which are his favorite MM?
 

XV-1

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MM's don't get much better than this - Technics EPC-P100C mk4. Sounds wonderful.

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Is this more like a SPU is sound, and better than your ESC 103?
 

gian60

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My friend is always abroad for his job so i listen him few time,
but after holiday i call him to ask news on this matter
 

XV-1

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Is this more like a SPU is sound, and better than your ESC 103?

Nothing like SPU and far better than ESC 103r.

It is more like the Lyra sound - neutral as neutral as could be - the frequency printout with the cartridge is a straight line - I kid you not. After the VDH retip it lost a little little of its linearity magic.
 

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