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On many copies the strings are dry, lacking some of the Tubey Magic heard on the better copies.
This is decidedly not our sound, although it can easily be heard on many London pressings, the kind we’ve played by the hundreds over the years.
If you have a rich sounding cartridge, perhaps with that little dip in the upper midrange that so many moving coils have these days, you will not notice this tonality issue nearly as much as we do.
Our 17Dx is ruler flat and quite unforgiving in this regard.
It makes our shootouts much easier, but brings out the flaws in even the best pressings, exactly the job we require it to do.
We discussed the issue in a commentary entitled Hi-Fi beats My-Fi (if you are at all serious about audio).
Here are some of the other records we’ve discovered that are good for testing string tone and texture.