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In Reply to: RE: SPU Royal N fans? posted by Joe Backer on December 18, 2022 at 18:02:34
I have been a SPU fan for many years and i am going to stick with it.
They are still relatively affordable when comparing to many high end exotic cartridge. However in order to make it shine, it needs to match with the right arm.
If you like SPU Royal, the Wood A SPU should be on your radar. I generally prefer SPU with lower output, Wood A is one. So you need to have a SUT and an arm that can accept A type SPU. Wood A has a fantastic warm tone and clarity that I personally think it has surpassed Royal. I have Royal SPU MKII also.
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I have a G arm. Is it worth it to get the adapter and use an Wood A or in your opinion will that negate the goodness of the Wood A?
Wood A is a wonderful cart, I have used the adaptor with wood A on RMG 309 arm and FR-64s arm, both works well.
At the end I bought a RMA 309 just for the wood A because I much prefer the simplicity.
Found a good deal on a A95! Can't wait to hear it...
I have a A95, too.
it isn't as warm sounding as the Royal. However, it is a all-around type, more detail sounding than Royal and extension of LF is much better.
A tag more modern sound, some called it more HiFi-ish but I really like it, over my Royal MKII.
I think you will enjoy it very much.
Thanks! Your assessment is very interesting. I keep hearing all sorts of different opinions about where it falls on the modern/vintage scale. I was hoping for something in-between my SL15 and the Royal N. Maybe this isn't going to be it? Can't wait to hear for myself!
Edits: 12/23/22
I have several SUP, including some older type.
If you have speakers like older altec, JBL, Quad, AR, etc which does not have good LF extension but more focus on mid range and high freq reproduction, using Royal or older SPU probably like a match in heaven. Another scenario is for those who play older records from early 60s, the intrinsic character of those recording with older SPU is a fantastic match.
I have a modern system, my records collection are mostly post 70s, hence I prefer a cartridge has the capability to cover "the whole thing". For the warm sound, I let my SET amp makes those "compensation"
I hope my little summary makes sense.
Happy holiday.
This has been an interesting couple of days. My speakers are 1975 Mitsubishi Diatones which are 12" bass reflex studio monitors from a recording studio in Japan. The amount of bass I'm getting with the Royal and SET amplification is crazy. Less with the A95 for some reason. The A95 is pretty incredible though for other reasons. It's going to be fun to compare over a longer period of time.
Happy holidays to you too!
The SPU-A Wood contains essentially the same motor + nude mounted conical (spherical) stylus I described in my previous post, except mine is mounted in a G body shell, hence, SPU-G or the equivalent of the current SPU Classic G MKII.
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