-edible zone-
-- Sure I'm very, v e r y slow with my own business... yet,
nonetheless, I finished the Goldring G-88 idler wheel turntable with
James Grant's Siggwan Cocobolo arm from New Zealand and... thanking my
pal Eckart, a pristine Signet 7 LCa moving magnet cartridge I got a
couple years ago, after reading a review about this marvelous cartridge,
previously unknown to me.
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-- I doped the slate and bronze arm pod with a tight couple kilos
lead shot-balls to further improve vibes taming... the Siggwan 12" arm
is a beauty and it deserves every effort on my part to make it singing
at its best!
Slow, I told you... would add incredibly, painfully
slow, as I got the Siggwan from New Zealand about two years ago and, for
several reason (being incurably busy is the first reason it comes to my
mind...) I only opened and briefly handled to appreciate the building
quality and... nothing! I simply stored it on a shelf...
... like
a good red wine.
... and time came, at last.
I did all my
homework in setting up the wooden arm and also if I was previously
planning to mount a Leonid Sinitsin-restored Lumiere DST, I someway
wished for something different - i.e. an MM cartridge to go straight
into Thomas Mayer Tango LCR Western electric 437A phono stage and Thomas
Mayer line stage with Cunningham CX 310... shining uber alles! or as an
alternative to the latter, the Serge Schmidlin's Silver Rock TVA...
superb resolution with this very combo.
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-- I choose a seldom seen Signet. Has been such a wise, cool
choice that, after listening to a couple of discs, I finished with an
Hungaroton's disc I recently wrote about, Turkish music. So sweet, so
smooth and detailed... natural... sweet? Turkish? Lokum!
The well kept secret candy found in Turkey and all Arabic Mediterranean
area... Thus the name... Lokum. Lenco is dead, welcome to Lokum
G-88.
Dedicated to who claims the best MM cart isn't comparable
to an average MC, without having never, ever personally experienced any
good (Grace F9E, Signet 7LCa... without quoting my beloved Decca
SC4E;-))
This Signet is simply up to par to a good moving-coil!