My former VR-5 SEs Gavin
The table is a TW Acustic AC-3. I had a TNT HRX before this and an Aries 2 before that. I heard the TW at CES '08 and I just fell in love with it. I put the HRX on the block as soon as I got home. The arms are a Graham Phantom I used with the HRX at the rear and newer Phantom II out front. Phantoms are the easiest arm I know of to set up and use. Carts shown in use are a Koetsu Jade Platinum again out back and a Dynavector DRT XV-1t playing in the picture.
I am a certified nuts cart hound. Not shown in the pics are the collection of carts ready to go mounted on their own wands. A ZYX Airy 3 S, A Clearaudio Titanium, a M.Y. Sonic Labs Ultra Eminent Be, Graham Nightingale, Dynavector XV-1s and an Ortofon A90. Problem with the 9s and the Lamms is that they are so transparent that changing carts is like having a totally different system in terms of presentation. It sounds all vintage like with the Koetsu and the others place you in all different positions in the hall as well as presenting all different hall sizes.
The rack is a custom sized Critical Mass Systems QXK Black Platinum with the Lamm LP2 deluxe on the middle shelf and the TW micro-processor speed controller on the bottom shelf. The Koetsu goes to a Koetsu SUT that then goes to the MM inputs of the Lamm.
I shall politely decline posting the prices as remembering might give me a stroke
Don't get me started on the LPs!
I have recently come to my senses and have slowed down on the analog front [[[[[[[[[[If I had a penny for every time I said that........]]]]]]]]]] mainly because despite the carts all being very very good as well as substantially different from each other , I have my clear favorites and the rest only get played when I am a) in the mood to tinker and b) need to hear something in a different light.
If I shall be in Denver this year methinks I shall wear a disguise!
