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In Reply to: To Grado, or not to Grado, that is the question..... posted by tubesforever on August 6, 2005 at 23:20:15:
HI there
the grado is a wonderful cartridge that can on occasion provide magic. it does provide sonic acccuracy of sorts -- especially in voice.... tonally it sounds more correct than most MC.. it is really convincing on voices & strings. however, it does not do tranisients that well. so sharp piano attacks in particular are somewhat sloppy(the helikon in contrast excels at this). also, sharp drum/tabla solos lose some rhythmic crispness. the grado is kinda like the DRT cartridge--- tonally good but a bit of plodder. i liked my grados a lot but eventually gave all up... i would suggest buying the $300 (5mv) one to start... if you like it a lot, jump to the $1200 Ref (again 5mv).. i am not a fan of the statement series... 0.5mv is too low for most phono premps and i am not sure if it does well with stepups. of course, if your phono is solid state and can handle low output directly, then the statement line becomes an option.i dont particullarly care for the extra warmth the wood body gives
the cartridge... wish they could tone that down a bit -- but for solid-state users-- that amount of extra warmth might be just right .
grados dont track well compared to other cartridges but nontheless, in the real world, i have had no serious tracking problems with mine... also, the hum problems are a bit exagerrated... the grado did not hum in most of the many systems i have heard them in. i do think the grado wood-body is an audio-classic and music-lovers cartridge.
munna
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