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In Reply to: Because, posted by Lew on December 22, 2009 at 11:16:04:
it's obvious there is sometimes a kind of "herd" mentality here.
That said, I used Grado cartridges for years. I had a Grado Sonata Statement for over five years. When that was worn out I bought another Grado Sonata Statement. That cart was defective with an over 2dB channel imbalance, and Grado kindly exchanged it for one of their newly upgraded Statement Sonata 1s. Then I started thinking maybe I should have tried something different. So I picked up a Denon DL-160 because it was cheap and had gotten lots of positive user reviews here and elsewhere and I was curious.
At $180 the Denon sounded better on my table in every way and with every type of music than the $600 Grado. Maybe I just wasn't smart enough to set the Grado up right (I tried, believe me, I tried). Maybe my arm was a bad match for the Grado. Maybe I just finally woke up to the fact that the Grado "warmth" is not really my cup of tea, and I prefer the leaner, tighter sound of the Denon.
None of this is to say the Grado sounded "bad," but its shortcomings were easily audible (most notably, the Grado seemed to impart a kind of "thick," "slow" sound to heavily rhythmic music) relative to the much cheaper Denon. Whatever the case, my system never sounded as good with the Grado as it does with the Denon.
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Follow Ups
- Sure... - rebop 12/22/0911:58:43 12/22/09 (2)
- Interesting.... - JimK 12:24:11 12/22/09 (1)
- RE: Interesting.... - rebop 12:47:18 12/22/09 (0)
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