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Re: Ah, so you've heard one

Hi Fret,
It took a while to line one up but how could I resist in the aftermath of Ellison's giant-killer claims?
It was used in my Roksan with both Artemiz and RB300 arms and it sounds very much as I remember from my early OC9 experiences.
As near as I can tell, tho there may have been some refinements of the original cartridge,the current units retain the same basic signature and character of the old.
I think it a relatively detailed performer for the money and likely to impress the first time MC user.
I didn't have an early model for comparison but my thinking is that this latest version is somewhat smoother on top but just as likely to congest and mistrack on difficult or complex passages. Low level harmonics and trailing edge info are truncated or absent.
Most disturbing is that like its predecessors, it somehow manages to distance itself from any sort of expression with lackluster dynamics and a curiously dry& sterile quality thruout the range.
The best thing about the OC9ML/II is that because of the latest hype, I was able to dump it without much effort and got most of my money back from the experiment.




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