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Read this interesting tidbit on another forum - does anyone know how TT choice will change from high to low efficiency speakers? One guy also recommended parallel tracking arm for low efficiency, not sure why. Any experience?
"The Verdier is generally used in a specific school of system building, based on high efficiency speakers. If you've been to Munich, the Silbatone guys demonstrate every year that a spherical stylus gets quite sufficient information off a record, thank you, if said information finds it easy to travel out of the speakers and to the listener's ear. Decks for this school are really only there to provide a stable platform for arm and cart and not editorialize the sound. Besides the Verdier, look at Micro Seiki etc. for a similar approach. If used outside this context, such decks are often accused of sounding a bit quiet or even boring.
Systems built around low efficiency polyprop or bextrene drivers tend to favour decks that take a more active role in shaping the end result, I find, and depend on a more highly developed sense of detail, and quite often a higher level of treble, as provided by sharper styli à la MicroRidge et al.
"The Verdier is generally used in a specific school of system building, based on high efficiency speakers. If you've been to Munich, the Silbatone guys demonstrate every year that a spherical stylus gets quite sufficient information off a record, thank you, if said information finds it easy to travel out of the speakers and to the listener's ear. Decks for this school are really only there to provide a stable platform for arm and cart and not editorialize the sound. Besides the Verdier, look at Micro Seiki etc. for a similar approach. If used outside this context, such decks are often accused of sounding a bit quiet or even boring.
Systems built around low efficiency polyprop or bextrene drivers tend to favour decks that take a more active role in shaping the end result, I find, and depend on a more highly developed sense of detail, and quite often a higher level of treble, as provided by sharper styli à la MicroRidge et al.
