sonddek
Trade: SUPATRAC
A Blackbird has been installed in Germany today, and the owner says...
"First of all installation was straightforward, [my friend] is a passionate (classic) unipivot disliker and he read through the instructions, got the principle & what works how and why even quicker than me. Given that's his profession that's not too astonishing, but he was very satisfied how straightforward he could dial in parameters and they stayed that way w/o necessity to come back and do it all again after later steps.
We installed the armcables, then the cart, gave it a roughly 1.7 grams which went rather simple and very quick, he set the azimuth, put the needlepoint precisely with the tabloid in the platter, controlled everything, slight correction of arm height... ...and long before I expected it, he said:
'That's it... ...very straightforward, we're ready to go!'
We put the needle onto my Analogue Productions 'Ben Webster at the Renaissance' record and from the first tones I thought: Whow... ...that's insanely good!
The arm is incredibly quick and delivers a clear window to portray all a cartridge is able to offer. Especially the texture of a snare drum felt or a tomtom, saxophone play was awesome...
...what I got presented appeared close to a miracle to me!
[My friend] did not say much, but I could see he was impressed. ( He enjoyed the music and said: that actually plays really well.. with one eyebrow up, indicating that- like me- he did not expect it to play THAT good...)
This arm does not behave, react or sound like something somebody knocked together on his workbench. Despite no dials with numbers anywhere and a visual appearance as if everything is a bit vague, every parameter is dialled in easily once...and stays that way. Azimuth cost us 2 tries and it was spot on. Nothing is vague the tiniest bit.
All the threads and slopes and knots can easily distract from the fact that this is a very precise instrument. This is day 1... ...and I'm impressed!
And there's something about it I'm unable to get hold of words for, yet.
Something about the presentation seemed more right... ...an ability to portray.
So far I'm VERY happy & wish you and your wife nice evening & a happy New Year!"