@clearthinker If the Grail was ‘under-exposed’, it certainly has caught my attention with the discussion here.
What are some of the higher internal impedance LOMC you have tried? Presumably it was the Boulder 1008 that you made the compare to?
@clearthinker If the Grail was ‘under-exposed’, it certainly has caught my attention with the discussion here. What are some of the higher internal impedance LOMC you have tried? Presumably it was the Boulder 1008 that you made the compare to? |
Yes it was the Boulder 1008. I really didn't like it. It sounded very 'transistory'. I didn't move on to the 2008 mainly because of the price, but I felt it likely there would be a house sound that doesn't suit me. I have Ortofons A90, Anna, Verismo; van den Huls Grasshoppers II and IV and Colibri. Also Audio Technica ART1000, another sleeper, uses entirely difference suspension engineering. These are all low impedence, between 3 - 7 ohms, the ART1000 is only 3 ohm, save the Colibri XGP which is 36 ohm. I do not hear any artifacts that distinguish that but overall these vdHs have fallen behind a little. The ART and the Verismo are the best I have. Anna has a high mass that unfortunately doesn't suit my ultra low mass parallel tracking arm, so I use it in my second system where the amplification is vintage. |
This post from a recent Little Loco thread may shed some light:
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@lewm I don't think I would employ any EQ on the transimpedance input (meaning the opamp). I would leave that for later in the circuit, such as a passive EQ network at the output of the opamp. In this case the constant velocity aspect of the cartridge really has nothing to do with it. |