audiofeline Posted April 12, 2021 Posted April 12, 2021 I think we need to acknowledge that there are individual differences in hearing ability. Some people have ears that are more attuned to pitch, wow, flutter, distortion, etc. than others. Similar to visual acuity, I can pick differences in light colour temperature easily. Whereas when I point it out or talk about it to many other people they have no idea what I'm talking about and therefore say those differences don't exist. 2
andyr Posted April 12, 2021 Posted April 12, 2021 On 12/04/2021 at 8:34 AM, audiofeline said: Similar to visual acuity, I can pick differences in light colour temperature easily. Whereas when I point it out or talk about it to many other people they have no idea what I'm talking about and therefore say those differences don't exist. Expand Then again, af ... that may just mean that you are totally confoosed! Andy 1
ntj377 Posted April 17, 2021 Author Posted April 17, 2021 I’ve had an update in my turntable situation. While keeping my eye out for a better tonearm and cartridge to try, I found another Kenwood DD at a price I couldn’t pass up. A KD-500 with the lovely synthetic marble plinth. It came with an SME III tonearm and Ortofon SME cartridge to suit, with OM30 stylus, which I thought would give me a taste of a better tonearm. I got it home and it had a bit of a speed issue which went away with a clean and exercise of the speed pots. I started spinning vinyl and it sounded like an improvement to me, I was just getting more detail. Unfortunately the suspension in the stylus gave up while I was enjoying it. With no quartz lock, KD-500 might be seen as a step down from the 750 on paper. But in practice it’s not an issue for me. Now it’s a matter of working out which one I like more, keep the 750 and upgrade the arm or keep this one. It’s a good fun issue to work through.
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