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In Reply to: Check your dealers websites and ads posted by Atexanathome on July 4, 2006 at 09:22:42:
No, as I said earlier, I don't think the Skala is really an upgrade to the Helikon. If anything, the sonic personality is closer to the Titan i. So maybe the Skala is the wrong cartridge for you. But again, maybe not.What I can say is that the Skala is doing some things beyond any other cartridge that I've ever experienced. The present Lyra cartridges have generally measured lower in distortion (0.1% for Helikon, 0.091% for original Titan, 0.069% for Titan i) than competing makes (with the better ones around 0.14~0.15%), but the Skala measures lower distortion again (about 0.05% at 5kHz), which is the lowest from a cartridge that I can recall seeing.
Neither the Skala nor Helikon sounds anything like a Shelter, Koetsu, Benz-Micro (insert favorite make here :-)). I should point out that one of the brands that you mentioned sounds like it does (and may also be favored for what it is) partly because of what it does wrong, rather than what it does right. And besides, copying someone else is no fun :-).
As an affordable tonearm upgrade, I'd suggest that you look into a Moerch UP-4, DP-6, or perhaps a Hadcock or Nima. These have consistently given better results with Lyra cartridges than the Regas.
regards and hth, jonathan carr
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Follow Ups
- Re: Check your dealers websites and ads - jcarr 07/4/0615:53:33 07/4/06 (3)
- I agree - Brian_T 01:36:37 07/7/06 (0)
- Surely you don't mean the FR? - Atexanathome 09:46:24 07/5/06 (0)
- Interesting Distortion Measurements.... - John Elison 04:24:19 07/5/06 (0)
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