Huh? There must be a tremendous difference between the sound of the Scout and ScoutMaster.

Posted by artemus (A) on May 5, 2007 at 07:46:51

In Reply to: Food for thought.... posted by tubesforever on May 5, 2007 at 00:02:44:

I have the ScoutMaster w/ Dyna 20xl run through a Wright WPP 100. I sounds nothing like you describe. The music certainly isn't light footed. The bass is much better than my Theta Miles cdp, which is known for its deep, tight bass. The SM beats the Miles in weight and bass every time. Even playing MoFi cd's, the regular LP pressing will kill the Miles in weight and bass
I haven't heard the Scout. But what you are describing sounds like a poorly set up Scout on insufficient platform with a mediocre cartridge playing through a mediocre phono preamp. Either that or all those who own one plus Michael Fremer and S'phile, who give the scout very high marks are sadly mistaken.

Life has lots of trials and lots of music to help us through them.

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Topic - Technics SP15 vs. VPI Scout - PassiveO 22:58:39 05/04/07 (12)

An important point - The arm on the technics is much better suited to the DL-103R than - HenryH 05:55:16 05/05/07 (1)

Definitely a fact. - PassiveO 06:53:45 05/05/07 (0)

Our hearing has a short memory - reuben 05:36:25 05/05/07 (0)

Food for thought.... - tubesforever 00:02:44 05/05/07 (6)

Huh? There must be a tremendous difference between the sound of the Scout and ScoutMaster. - artemus 07:46:51 05/05/07 (1)

YMMV....I do not know your system matching.... - tubesforever 09:23:36 05/05/07 (0)

Re: Food for thought.... - PassiveO 00:37:50 05/05/07 (3)

Ever listen to a decent quality radio station when you were young.... - tubesforever 09:41:22 05/05/07 (1)

Re: Ever listen to a decent quality radio station when you were young.... - PassiveO 10:40:11 05/05/07 (0)

Re: Food for thought.... - texanater 06:34:57 05/05/07 (0)

Couldn't you use a common tonearm when testing/comparing? - rich121 23:29:10 05/04/07 (1)

Re: Couldn't you use a common tonearm when testing/comparing? - PassiveO 00:35:44 05/05/07 (0)

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Huh? There must be a tremendous difference between the sound of the Scout and ScoutMaster. - artemus 07:46:51 05/05/07 (1)

YMMV....I do not know your system matching.... - tubesforever 09:23:36 05/05/07 (0)

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