torstoi
pfm Member
OT on:Thank you for the illuminating opinion torstoi.
However, I’ll trust my own ears and have a listen to the Hana Umami Red at some stage, you say it was “freshly unpacked” suggesting to me that perhaps a run in period is required before it opens up and begins to operate optimally.
Yes, sorry my comment 'freshly unpacked' is a tiny bit misleading, my mate said he got it new and used it for about a week or so, what essentially I meant to say was that it had been unpacked new and not handed from one dealer to another with possible mishaps / accidents or anything. He told me in his opinion it is run in.
It is well possible though it had not been absolutely run in at that point...I'm unable to judge that qualified, my mate is a professional and passionate recordplayer dealer though, that doesn't mean he has universal wisdom, but his opinion has a certain weigth to me for sure..
He getting in and running in fresh systems every week, so probably more than most around here, a certain experience when a system is run in far enough to judge it can be expected..I think ?
So let's say it was run in by 75% just as a wild guess...what I heard was clearly: You can give that as a gift to me, I will definitely never use it.
But listen to it yourself..I'm curious what you think about it.
As I said I only heard a row of spectacular soundevents instead of the connected musical story of a song.
I only got the storyline once switched over to the Goldring..
The Umami to me is probaly perfect for demos with soundhunters to put on some 3 blind mice records, which sound spectacular, but often have very limited musical debth imo..
A cartridge meanwhile is a good storyteller to me.
And over the years I have faded from the soundhunter camp into the camp of preferring a well told musical storyline..even if a bit less spectacular.
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