The Great Big TT Reveal

[The Black Adder]

Very nice looking turntable. I've never heard one myself but it looks smashing. Bet it sounds superb.

Congratualtions!!

[Audio Al]

Adrian , No wonder you can't sleep with a new toy Opps ! sorry TT

Ree this comment " but time had disappeared and Sue was home so it was time stop listening after only 5 tracks." How did Sue respond when the good lady cast eyes on it

Did you get away with it by saying " What that old thing , I dragged it out of the wardrobe , Had it years , Don't you remember it ? "

Looks a lot different to my Pro-Ject 10.1

You enjoy every single minute with the new acquisition

[AJSki2fly]

That cartridge looks rather special just read a few reviews and then saw the price cost more than my entire system. It must sound very special indeed congrartulations.

Hi Nat

Yes the cartridge is rather pricy, I was very fortunate when I purchased something else I negotiated and extremely good deal for cash for it, a main dealer who keeps stock and this was at discounted at old stock prices, even so it was not twice what I had previously paid. Having heard my friends LP-S I new it was very detailed, natural and neutral with good bass grip so it was high on the list.

Cheers

Adrian

[AJSki2fly]

Very nice looking turntable. I've never heard one myself but it looks smashing. Bet it sounds superb.

Congratualtions!!

Thanks Josie, I was aware of them, a friend sent me a link this one which was an ex-demo, hardly used, at a great price. Initially I had no funds so just discounted it then out of the blue a few days later we had an unexpected windfall so it then became feasible. It sounds very good, I think Pro-Ject produced the Signature 12 and 10 to show what they can do and as a flagship statement, from the quality of the TT and Arm I would be surprised if they make a lot of profit on it, I doubt they sell a huge number, but I could be wrong.

From a sound perspective, it is definitely very musical with great depth, and produces lovely 3D imaging with a good recording. The platter/drive is silent so this must help with the darkness and the timing aspect is rock solid, I presume due to the 11kg mass of the platter. So I am very pleased with it indeed.

[AJSki2fly]

Adrian , No wonder you can't sleep with a new toy Opps ! sorry TT

Ree this comment " but time had disappeared and Sue was home so it was time stop listening after only 5 tracks." How did Sue respond when the good lady cast eyes on it

Did you get away with it by saying " What that old thing , I dragged it out of the wardrobe , Had it years , Don't you remember it ? "

Looks a lot different to my Pro-Ject 10.1

You enjoy every single minute with the new acquisition

I know better than that, Sue keeps a watchful eye on my vinyl comings and goings, and a hawk like gaze on any serious pieces of kit, so sneaky swap is a no-no!

[AJSki2fly]

Been fiddling this morning, wanted to check I had the arm geometry set up spot on. The arm is adjustable in virtually every direction, so its worth checking. I used some engineering dividers and checked the spindle to pivot distance and this was a couple of mm off, I guessed this was due to the position of the cartridge in the head shell which was slight forward when initially set up.

So I set the arm to the default factory position indicated by two vertical lines which you can line up with the sledge adjustment, I then re-measured and it was spot on at 238mm. Then the tricky bit to get the cart in the right position and get it aligned properly. After several attempts and reseting the azimuth on the head shell a couple of times I got it spot on, and it lines up on the inner and outer hairline points and with the cartridge dead parallel to the alignment tool markings. So a final re-check the VTA which was still good and then reset the tracking weight to 1.9gm, as I had moved the cartridge.

So the moment of truth I put on my recently purchased HiFi News setup record and listened to all the tracks, and every thing passed with flying colours, even the horrendous last track on side 1 it tracked. I found the low frequency resonance test tracks somewhat disturbing, watching the cartridge wobble around erratically, but both results were good with a resonance of around 8-9hz, so reasonably low.

Next was to listen to some music and I put on my usual Ravi Shankar and Eva Cassidy listening tracks, the result is a very slight improvement, imaging and soundstage seems a little more focused, and possibly a bit more 3D, if that makes sense.

So that's it for now sit back and enjoy the tunes.