Right, the Moon has done its thing and sits on my desk waiting to be returned at lunch time.
Despite its earlier disappointing showing it improved a lot and to the point where I would have been comfortable living with it. In some ways it was like experiencing a shortened version of the break-in time of the CDX2 in that it would be good, then go backwards a bit then improve again to a new higher level, and so on. It did settle down to a more or less stable state towards the end; however I suspect it may still have been improving slightly.
In theory this unit was run in before I got it but I am now of the opinion that either it was not fully run in or that they regress if left powered off for a length of time.
This is not to say that it reached the levels of the Pure Audio device, either in detail or musicality, but it certainly did not disgrace itself – and it is only ¾ the price of the Pure Audio Vinyl. Despite my earlier impressions, ultimately I did not gain the views of its long term performance that Threadkiller has. In fact, I wouldn’t mind listening to it with its optional PSU.
One area where it did beat the Pure Audio was its size as I was able to fit it in my rack in the same spot as the P75 without taking anything else out and could probably have fit the PSU in there as well. The Superline is about the same size as the Moon.
I have also established that there is no Linn dealer here in Wellington but that the Uphorik is available in NZ, so have made an enquiry about a demo (no reply yet).
Steve
