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In Reply to: RE: KanedaK Thank You. posted by earnie3 on July 16, 2022 at 09:06:43:
Kev,
As I tired to respond to your cabling post several weeks ago..., know that I've actually owned a total of 4 WTL Tables, starting in 1993 with the original square motor cut out version simply called the WTL Table | followed by the Classic made around ( or purchased around 2002 from a local doctor friend over in Farmington Hill, Michigan..., this one original came with the clear platter | silver sand filled WTL Tonearm, which were eventually replaced with the Black Dampened Platter | Black Tonearm which was produced by Transparent Audio | had Marigo Labs mods added, namely the Brass Tonearm Damper | a set of 3 carbonized looking cones which say underneath the round motor section of said vintage as well as a much improved arm clamping device, the third was picked up in 2009 as was referred to as the WTL Super, which offered the exact same yet slightly thicker Black Tonearm of Transparent Audio Design, as well as Dampened Black Platter..., the very last one owned was the Amadeus GTA MK ll with enclosed Tonearm Golf Ball being covered by a piece of aluminum housing, in tandem used with their then current DPS speed controller and an add on XTC Tonearm Counterweight.
Cabling wise..., I went from an original Harmonic Technologies Truth-Link Copper pair of IC's from 2002-2008 followed by a pair of AR Sound Green IC's ( silver plated copper from Israel as I seem to recall ) from 2009 to 2011, in 2012 as my legs became more infected from gout making it difficult to walk from my record rack over to the table with a stack of vinyl..., I knew that very day I'd be forced over to the dark side, which is now distantly known as Computer Audio, yet haven't regretted it other than on the rarest of occasions, at this point, I was using the Synergistic Research Tricon AG ( Silver Matrix ) IC's and found as I do of late..., pure silver merely brings about a certain integration of notes, especially at the very top | bottom extremes I never was able to achieve with pure copper, other than said Harmonic Technologies Truth-Link IC's, like ever.
I've learned over said years, it comes down to merely understanding how to off set the balance of one's main tweeter driver type of material, as soft domed tweeters are designed by nature as means of only reproducing the somewhat more limited extension of said recordings produced between say 1953-62, mostly because of vacuum tubes being in the recording chain, yet with the advent of CDs, and to my mind more so with the likes of remastering done on SA-CDs | XRCDs | Shim pressings from Japan | Hong Kong, those once overly flat and limited bandwidth recordings of yesteryear, required metal dome type of drivers, and said designs have stood the test of time, beginning with the likes of brands like Celestion | Monitor Audio | B&W | Totom Acoustics | Focal ( formerly JM Labs ) which many Americans at the time didn't total understand or expect as leading the way into what we now hear as Hi-Rez type of recordings, where overly dull highs are no longer tolerated.
Address the driver with a pair of totally neutral SCs, and then pay attention to the most vital pair of IC's to set set the overall balance closet to the source, in which case is one's turntable or phono-stage, that's why one ideally has a set up for both ( or either ) vinyl or digital, as each strives to serve one purpose or the other, but very very seldom both sonically.
Just added food for thought.
Edits: 07/31/22
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