Best money ever spent
Got it in a week and mounted it on my Origin Live Enterprise-C arm, very easy to install, fortuitously it aligned perfectly with the front edge of the headshell. Set the weight at 1.9g but the sibilence was distracting so upped it to 2.0 which made it tolerable. On a whim I decided to break it in with Bach's organ works, Peter Hurford on Argo. Right from the first needle drop, "Are you kidding me?" If you've been to church you know what an organ really sounds like. This was not like church, it was like cathedral. My wife happened to have a visitor in the front room. I went there to say hi and asked her what she thought. Amazing. Then I lead her to my setup. When she saw the Thorens TD124 mounted in a slate plinth, spinning a vintage record, her eyes bugged out, trying to reconcile the sight with the sound. I mean, it was my system which had taken me a decade to assemble, and I Me Myself was trying to reconcile the sight with the sound. After 30+ hours of break-in, I am convinced this is the best investment I have yet made in this crazy hobby. I have owned many cartridges that cost me much more, but none had given me this level of satisfaction.