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The DL-S1 would be hard to beat I would imagine..

...if the DL304 is anything to go by!

Apart from the Silver wire for the coils and the slight increase in nominal VTF to 1.3g, I'm not sure how different the damping configuration for the S1 is to the DL304. Certainly the stylus and cantilever look very similar and the bandwidth is virtually identical.

My sample of 304, despite the cantilever twist has the most remarkable tracking ability of any cartridge I have yet used. I initially set 1.3g and achieved 2.2% distortion on the +18dB HFNRR test tone which we know is >100um. So I am more than happy at nominal 1.2g. I'm not even sure if the distortion I see on the waveforms weren't created by previous cartridges chewing up the groove!
That aside, tonally, Denon have sweetened the upper presence band by pulling back a tad at 10kHz (wrt 1kHz) and then allowing a gentle lift of about 2dB at 23kHz.
This is a very similar characteristic to what I measure with the Shure V15V and Stanton 881, 980LZS and CS100 - all cartridges that have a very subjectively pleasing sound to my ears.

Incidentally, I was just looking at the reference FR chart supplied with my 304 and was surprised to see that the reference load used was 1k ohm of all possible values they could have chosen to match a 20:1 or 15:1 SUT...or even 10:1.

I haven't gotten around to building a SUT yet so I experimented with different loads with the MC input stage on my phono preamp and ended up preferring 400 ohms (well that's what the phono stage labels it as!). 800 ohms added a certain "diffuse" quality to the HF range and slightly reduced definition. 400 ohms gives close to maximum output as you'd expect, and overall the best subjective performance. This DID surprise me a little in that I wouldn't have expected shifting the ultrasonic electrical resonance peak to have ANY discernible effect in the passband especially since the subjective changes would be mostly observed in the upper presence band. Unless I am hearing the effects of amplifier stability changes...

Just out of curiousity what was the value of the test load used in the chart supplied for your S1?
Regards Anthony

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats

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