To Raven One owners.....

Hi David12,
Did Thomas by any chance mention a phonostage he is working on?
Thank you for the info.

No regrets,
Have you ordered a Raven or just giving consideration among other tables?

I can tell you Jeff Catalano of High Water Sound ,the only North American distributor of the TW Raven tables is areal pleasure to deal with.

One of the hardest working guy's in the audio business.

I spoke with Jeff acouple of times over the phone. He,s down to earth and a straight shooter.

Prior to ordering a Raven One this past Monday,I had a VPI ScoutMasterSignature with options.

VPI put out a fine line of turntables and tonearms, heard them all.
However I believe VPI and many other manufatures do not make a table that can compete even with the Raven One.

This record player matched up with a great arm, cartridge and especially the phonostage,could verywell be your last table.

No Regrets,
Any sign of spring weather down your way yet?...

I also owned a Linn for many years which I bought in 1984 and enjoyed up until 2001.

My first e-mail to Jeff of High Water Sound ,I asked if there were any owners of the Raven tables here in Ontario Canada.

Jeff e-mailed back with names and e-mail address of three happy owners.
There could very well be an owner near you.

David , I believe it was Jeffery of HighWater that told me about a phonostage from Raven coming soon.
And your K&K phonostage ,I had alook and couldn't find their web site. Would you past it along please.

Motnic congratulations on the A.C. model.
Jeff received my cheque for a Raven One acouple of weeks ago. I can hardly wait...

The Phantom is a $4400.00 decision if you want new and your going to wait for one.

Then you have to mount a decent cartidge on it,you will quickly equal the price of a Raven One alone.

On top of this you have a phono cable to connect from your Phantom to your phonostage.

Don't compromise at this stage.

My top choice of a phono wire is the Nordost Tyr at $1,100 new.

I just want to point out, the overall price is getting up there.

Even a second hand Phantom and phono wire could easily go over ones budget.

I'm sure Thomas Woschnick of Raven choose the Vivid arm for VERY specific reasons.

Go to HighWaterSound.com for the Vivid reveiw and others.

There are more reveiws on the way shortly in major magazines of the Raven One and AC models.

Hopefully Roy Gregory and staff of Hi-Fi + magazine is one of them.

Cheers guy's

No Regrets,
Our lakes are still froze over and still agood bit of snow on the ground up here.
Though today its bright sunshine,28 degrees and warming up fast....

David12
K & Ks phonostage from what I have read is of GREAT value for the money.
Like the Supratek Chenin that I have, the selling price has absolutely no bearing on performance.

The phonostage in the Chenin triode is near silent in operation and will drive a MC cartridge down to 0.1 milivolts without the need for a step up device,according to the owners manual.
Over and above this I have put it head to head with acouple other popular phonostages and pres at double the price of the Chenin.
Its still in my system.

I will be giving anew preamp and phonostage carefull concideration to go with my Raven and Phantom.


K & K audios maxxed out phonostage with all options looks like a good place to start.

The Chenin is an attractive style especially in the optional piano black finish and chrome.

A very flexible well thought out design.
I've been happy with it's performance over these past few years.

I would like to share my audio journey in a nut shell.

I have it mated to a pair of Atma-Sphere model 2 60s which drive apair of overhauled Quad electrostats or apair of Dynaudio speakers depending on my mood of music.
The Atma-Spheres are an exceptional match for both sets of these speakers.

After 17 years owning a Linn LP12, by the year 2000 I was taken in by the excitment of some audio magazines of a new format called S.A.C.D.

Sold my Linn in 2001,bought a Sony 777 SCD,my first ever digital player.
Had it modded a year later, brought home other players to try and by 2004 I was back to vinyl.
For me,it would be digital or vinyl , not both.
Though something wasn't right with digital.

In 2004 I bought a VPI Scout Master with options including a Dynavector Karat MK2 cartridge.
A year later I changed the arm to the VPI Signature,then later bought the superb Dynavector Karat MK3.
I sold this combination afew months ago and started hunting down a new front end.

I want more of what vinyl has to offer and I truly believe that I will get it with the Raven One and Phantom arm.

My musical taste range,in no particular order, Jazz, Folk, Blues, Rock, Big Band and some Classical.
Mark