Thank you - I really enjoyed coming to listen in your room. I'm a Technics turntable fan and it was also a pleasure listening to Lyn and meeting her. A musician who is out in the open about caring about the end of the recording/reproduction chain shouldn't be a rarity, but it's very nice to see.
On first listening C is brighter and livelier but louder. I planned to import into Audacity to check so thanks for saving the hassle - though I probably will anyway and try to match the levels. I wonder if it is purely a level difference or whether there is a peak/average difference.
...or maybe Sweden (SAT) vs. the UK (Supatrac)
Yes indeed. This is one reason why it's very difficult to answer when people ask which length to buy. The 12 inch arm has a higher default effective mass - it can never be as light as the 9 inch. The nine inch can be made heavier though. This means that the 9 inch is compatible with a wider range of cartridges. A comparison between the two lengths using the same cartridge would require adding the supplied mass adaptor to the 9 inch arm to bring its effective mass up to the same value as that of the 12 inch. Very few people compare arm lengths in that way, so most discussion of arm length merits is really about something else.
This is why at the Bristol show I have demonstrated with two decks. In fact, I put the Blackbird on a lesser deck each time, to show that it can beat a handicap. From what I've heard of the SAT arms so far, if I were to do an a/b demonstration against one, I would probably want the Blackbird to be on an identical deck, not a lesser one! Tough competition.
Thank you. That's a pretty straight answer.
