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RE: Soundsmith OLC vs LC stylus comparison?

Posted by flood2 (A) on September 17, 2014 at 16:10:42

In Reply to: RE: Soundsmith OLC vs LC stylus comparison? posted by louie3 on September 17, 2014 at 06:58:29:

Thanks! That is exactly what I was wondering about - I have the OLC in a 25 year old Denon DL160. A bit of a mistake in hindsight for the same reasons you describe.

I found it ULTRA sensitive to SRA - my OCD comes in handy to resolve this as I measure the thickness of each record and shim to get consistency for the arm height. However, small errors result in a greater increase in distortion than other styli. I also found groove blemishes were actually magnified - I get better overall performance from a MicroLine if I were honest. With records that "hit the mark", the detail retrieval and realism were astonishing, but most of the time I found I wasn't achieving sonic Nirvana...

As a result of the sensitivity to SRA, I also suspect that the OLC requires almost perfect arm/cantilever matching to minimise IM distortion so any compliance mismatch that puts the resonance much below the optimum 10 Hz is probably not going to sound as good as less extreme profiles.


Regards Anthony

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