Could you compare the Artisan Fidelity with the Cusworth in terms of the sonic signature? I agree that the AF is amazing looking.
Strange, because timing and the latter two are 301’s very special qualities even in lightweight suspended plinths of the 60’s/70’s.Both times for both of us it was a no competition. The Garrard just did not have the timing, decay, energy, stage.
Strange, because timing and the latter two are 301’s very special qualities even in lightweight suspended plinths of the 60’s/70’s.
david
The 401 is more detailed than the 301 and has some of what you like decay that are important with classical music.Like I said, the Garrard at hanze hifi was much closer, in fact better than one of the schopper models. I will check Loricraft once
I heard the schopper next to the audiograil Garrard in Cusworth plinth again today. The schopper was in a lesser phono (aurasound vida) with the zyx cart, and the Garrard was into the top Shindo Giscours with an SPU gold ref. Previously we have heard the Schopper into the Shindo and the Garrard into the Vida with the same cart.
Both times for both of us it was a no competition. The Garrard just did not have the timing, decay, energy, stage. The only thing that differed between the two was the arm, with the FR and brinkmann 10 on the schopper and the ortofon 927 on Garrard.
The hanze hifi 401 was much closer to the Schopper in that system, in fact more musical than one of his models, not the other super model. Both compares the mid bass bump/color of the Garrard was evident, while the schopper was clean.
The other idler of choice is a well restored lenco. To face off to technics
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