Phono Stage

@billstevenson 

yep the room is a component and one of the most critical ones. What you hear or don’t hear from your system depends in large part on room acoustics and system set up. 

The Bozak factory was located somewhere between New Haven and NYC, I think around Norwalk.  The train to NYC used to pass by.  I remember that it looked so forlorn for many years after Bozak folded but the sign was still in place.

Yes Bozak was in Norwalk.  A little piece of Bozak is still with us in the guise of Peter Lederman of SoundSmith.  I met Peter on a pilgrimage to the Bozak factory back in the day.  I was just a young kid with stars in my eyes, but I sold a lot of Bozak speakers out in Seattle.  By the time I graduated from the U of W, I owned a pair of Bozak Concert Grands.  In terms of set up, they were monsters.  The question was what wall in the room should they be placed against?  They were far too big to move out into the room.  I did experiment with placing them one on each of two adjacent walls, which was effective in smaller rooms.  I loved the things though, and owned them for maybe 7-8 years, and moved them from Seattle, to Pensacola, to San Diego, finally back to Seattle before selling them for more than I paid for them.  The Navy footed the bill for the moves to make that feasible.  

Despite growing up and being an audiophile in the same era and living in both NYC, where I haunted Lyric HiFi and Harmony House in the early 70s, and CT, I never heard the big Bozaks. A thing I have been curious about.

@faustuss alright so earlier today I dropped the load. 
From 470 to 100 in 3mins thank you Ozempic!!!

I felt like, with around 20hrs on Umami Blue, it was the right time to let it continue to evolve without me suffering. 
I know you’re running Hana ML which is the cartridge I upgraded from. The Umami Blue has resolution that completely surprises me every time I listen. At 100ohm the sound is meatier and sweeter than at 470 but it somehow retains the details and presents everything in a more relaxed way. Anyone with ML should consider the Blue as the next step. The difference is far from subtle.