Supatrac: the world's best tonearm?
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Tarzan
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sonddek
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Why wouldn't he?
He answers that in the article. He said he was "100% unprepared" for what he heard in the Cessaro / Döhmann / SUPATRAC / Reed / AIRTIGHT / Koetsu / Alieno / Acustica Applicata room and that vinyl is just not his thing. The other rooms he selected had digital sources. Yet he selected our vinyl-only room in his four best of show and said some unreserved things about it, for example that it was "the most concert-like experience I’ve ever heard".
sonddek
Trade: SUPATRAC
From the moment I met Mark Döhmann we understood each other. We are both passionate about enjoying our records to the maximum, and fascinated by the engineering problem that is the venerable gramophone record. The fact that it works at all is a miracle. The fact that it can sometimes produce results which sound, and more importantly feel like real music being performed in the comfort of your drawing room, is an enduring mystery, and one worthy of assiduous investigation.
Mark, and Ralf of Cessaro seemed to be as thrilled with the results we heard in 'H4.0 F001' as I was. It was a tricky room, and not everything sounded perfect in there, but when it came to difficult-to-track-and-control complex dynamic orchestral music, the sort of torture test which turntablists seldom dare to play at shows, I have never heard anything like it from a hifi. I agree with The Computer Audiophile when he said it was "the most concert-like experience I’ve ever heard".
I understand that Robert Harley spent considerable time in the room, which I hear is unusual, and he said this:
Here's his write-up:
www.theabsolutesound.com
Note the mention of brass instrument performance. My guess is that tone-arms are critical to the credible reproduction of brass instruments, because their highly energetic sound is very often slightly mistracked. The brass instrument performance is something which thrills me whenever I listen to a SUPA, simply because it is an extraordinarily rich and exciting sound, not just because I know how difficult it is for a mechanical record player to retrieve it with the full juice.
Mark, and Ralf of Cessaro seemed to be as thrilled with the results we heard in 'H4.0 F001' as I was. It was a tricky room, and not everything sounded perfect in there, but when it came to difficult-to-track-and-control complex dynamic orchestral music, the sort of torture test which turntablists seldom dare to play at shows, I have never heard anything like it from a hifi. I agree with The Computer Audiophile when he said it was "the most concert-like experience I’ve ever heard".
I understand that Robert Harley spent considerable time in the room, which I hear is unusual, and he said this:
Here's his write-up:
The 2024 Munich High-End Show: Robert Harley on Loudspeakers - The Absolute Sound
The 2024 Munich High-End Show: Robert Harley on Loudspeakers - The Munich show is traditionally the coming out party for many new speaker models, and this year didn’t disappoint. As is typical of Munich, most of the speaker introductions were of the upper-end variety, but there were some...
www.theabsolutesound.com
Note the mention of brass instrument performance. My guess is that tone-arms are critical to the credible reproduction of brass instruments, because their highly energetic sound is very often slightly mistracked. The brass instrument performance is something which thrills me whenever I listen to a SUPA, simply because it is an extraordinarily rich and exciting sound, not just because I know how difficult it is for a mechanical record player to retrieve it with the full juice.
13th Duke of Wymbourne
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Here is a Supatrac representative talking at Munich. He did a pretty good job so I hope he'll get promoted to a position where he doesn't have to wear the company uniform (watch from 2:45)
sonddek
Trade: SUPATRAC
Interesting discussion about the future of vinyl from Munich High End. The panelists aren't supposed to mention brand names. At 16m:20s Mark Döhmann says there's a new kind of uni-pivot tone-arm that's "upsetting the apple cart". Does anybody know to whom he is referring?
yuckyamson
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Richard, what praise! This is the kind of validation that only happens in storybooks! Amazing.
koi
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sonddek
Trade: SUPATRAC
Brilliant
Sounds like your selling it to cheap
Please note that the quoted retail price is only a threshold. Customers are very welcome to pay more than is asked for any SUPATRAC product. Just mention how much extra you would like to pay when ordering and we will include it in the invoice.