There was plenty of the performer’s breathing heard between notes, indicating good subtle detail recovery. The Elliptical stylus was created in response to the demands of stereo while the 3rd generation shapes were developed for the short-lived RCA CD-4 quadraphonic LP. Yet the VM540ML still gets the background details just right on this track with the sweet handling of dual flutes in the left channel and the subtle crispness of the riding cymbal in the right channel. I was using a Dual CS505-4 with shortened RCA leads to give a wiring capacitance of 100pF, so the final totals were 200pF, 250pF and 350pF.

With the Emmylou Harris album, as I mentioned, the cause of this is a light scuff exactly where the cackling can be heard.The opening bassoon to “Witchcraft” sounds extremely detailed yet properly weighty for the instrument. Set Up : thought it’s compliance must be higher I tried lighter headshell to bring down tonearm mass to 15-16 grams but it’s sound unmusical with bloated bass. Getz’s saxophone sounds appropriately big and powerful out of the left channel but is still handled with the proper finesse in that I could make out all the subtler details in his playing as well.

No noise increases in the right channel, which we saw in the lower level 22um spectra above, can be seen. On jazz vocals, in particular, I got the sense that there were more layers to the sound and it added an extra, and welcome, sense of dimension to some of my favorite LPs when I spun them.

grams and the weight in many respects is like a tone control and the more weight you apply the more bass it will give you and by making it lighter it will give you more treble.

Celebrating 36 years of business, Kronos AV offers one of the world's largest collections of fine audio products. After having run the VM540ML on my Marantz TT6200 in quite an intensive way, starting with a 2g VTF on the first 50h and reducing it to its current 1. As an example of this, the Audio-Technica AT-OC9/MLII performs better in these highly modulated groove tests, for reasons that are not clear, using information published in Hi Fi News and Record Review and independent measurements by John Elision in a news group.Though these observations were more subtle than it sounds (except the issue with the S-consonants, which was really disturbing) , I thought about how to improve my system. For the VM540ML, changes in IM and THD were small moving from Level 1 to Level 6 so we will show only the Level 6 spectra. The piano solos also had a vibrancy about them, with wonderfully clean ringing sounds to the notes and a good weight to the lower registers. Unfortunately, with all 6 locked together everything points up at 7kHz and stays up until the conclusion of that octave at 14kHz.