"I decided to go with the Hyperion MkII MR. It’s above my limit (only but 50%) but after talking to Peter and with the sale price I couldn’t pass it up."
Nice choice.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record- yet again🤣 (mentioned this one a few times)I heard the Hyperion demoed by Peter. It was on a VPI HRX playing thru some small SS bookshelf speakers and SS phono amp.
He played a cut from my own copy of David Gilmour's debut album-Theres No Way Out of Here."
1st time ever being blown away hearing small generic bookshelf speakers. It was the Hyperion showing off despite being seriously "compromised' not playing thru some giant floorstanders.
It helped that my copy was a period "stamper-1st press"(another topic of discussion)
Even Peter was impressed-he wanted a copy to play instead of his usual collection of demo LP's!
Enjoy it. As long SS can keep those cactus spines in stock, you have a forever cartridge 👍