By Steve Graham I don’t want this piece to be a teaser, but I’ve been having trouble coming to grips with the performance of the JIL. It’s not that the JIL bad, quite the contrary: I can’t seem to make it stumble. To put it simply, I haven’t been able to challenge it sufficiently, to find its limits. That’s really a roundabout way of saying that all of my analogue sources are, well, crap. I’m sure you know what I wanted to say there, but we’ve almost beaten that joke to death, right? The analogue tapes that I’ve digitized have meaning for me, but didn’t really hold the JIL’s feet to the fire, performance-wise. A serious phonographic purchase is in my near future; Christmas present to myself maybe? Until that happens, I’ve resurrected my ancient Sony direct-drive turntable, and installed a new Audio-Technica cartridge that I picked up for 50 bucks on Amazon. The Sony/A-T combo sounds OK, but that’s all. Unfortunately, I don’t know anyone nearby with a serious phono rig that I could use to challenge the JIL. In the mean time, I’ve created some short files for WoS followers to try for themselves; it’s the [...]
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