Allow me one more question. I see you have a Transfiguration Temper. I have a good offer for An used Transfiguration Proteus. Not really familiar with the Family of Transfiguration. Have just used Dynavectors with great sucess and have a XX2 right now.
I know everything is a matter of taste, but will this be a wrong step. Any thoughts to consider?.Use a superline as phonopre.
A few pics of my Pink Triangle PT1 with SME V and a Shelter Model 90c cartridge and it’s a lovely old thing. It’s quite an early PT1 dating from the late 70’s I think.
I have a long history with PT’s having run a LPT GTi from 1990 to 2001, a PT Export from 2001-2002 and a PT Anniversary from 2002 to 2017. I moved on to a TW Acustic Raven AC3 after that but I still miss the Anni. The PT1 came up cheap locally and I couldn’t resist pairing it with this SME that was looking for a home. Lovely nostalgia trip.
Here’s some snaps of the Anni sporting an SME IV and a Clearaudio Accurate.
Mine was a Proteus and it replaced a series of 17D2 and 3s. Compared to the Karats the sound has more body and greater resolution with no loss of speed. That was in an Aro which I used on a mk 2 Rock but without the trough. I transferred the proteus to the Schröder but I’ve never tried the Karat in the latter. I also had a loan of a Well Tempered Versalex for an afternoon and tried the Proteus in that but probably didn’t get it dialled in properly, I preferred the higher DVs in that deck when I’ve heard them.
That is what came with the early models. It feels like a lightweight MDF of some sort with spongey feet. The later models had squash balls added to the TT feet.
The PT’s are beautiful. Never seen one in the flesh though as they were rare as down in these parts. The Voyd’s were also beautiful. The two most beautiful looking TT’s in my book and it looks like you have one as well?
Thank you For reply Yeti. This is what I am unsure about. To go for the Protheus or wait for an offer on a Te Kaitora or XV-1. I am familiar with the lower Dynavectors up to the XXmk2. But never deared to go higher.
You still keot your Transfiguration or is it gone?
I still have the proteus and may have it rebuilt but I’m loving what the SPU can do in my Schröder so much I’m not missing it, I wonder if that will last.
What lovely pictures of PT’s and such fabulous condition.
I understand why someone might go to the trouble and finding and collecting these gems. I had a PT Too for many years from late 80’s and all through the 90’s.
At the time of buying, remember auditioning A/B test with an equivalent spec’ LP12. In my humble opinion, The Pink Triangle was the more capable vinyl spinner.
I bought mine fitted with the Syrinx PU3 (another fantastic piece of classic HiFi) and over years tried two or three Dynavector MC cartridges, starting with their 10X. This combination made beautiful music.
The only reason I let it go, was believing CD’s were here to stay and vinyl would die a death. By c.2000 vinyl album were becoming difficult to find an buy. (How wrong can we be). In hindsight, wish I had kept it.
Eventually, Pink Triangle ceased in production and the rest is history, although some of the design ideas live on, with The Funk Firm. We can only wonder what may have been, if this amazing turntable had continued in production and continued to innovate and development, through to modern times and the resurgence of turntables, etc.
If they ever made these again, perhaps an “anniversary edition”’ with some modern design additions, I would gladly buy one. (There’s a nice business idea for someone, to maybe make 100 under licence, if the original makers didn’t want to)
These decks are a magical thing. Thanks for sharing the pictures and transporting me back in time to a happy turntable moment
Sonus Blue very very good MM cartridge and a rival for the at the time Supex 900? MC
Had no faults at all, often wondered what happend to them.They made a Red, Green and Blue all the very same cartridge they used stylus quality and alignment to grade them Blue being the best.
I think there might have been a Blue Gold or a Gold as well.
My memory of the Blue was that although it was a MM cartridge, it had a beautiful and delicate sound of the sort I now associate with good MC cartridges. I had considered getting the Supex MC, but the 9" Fluid arm on my Transcriptors Hydraulic Reference would have been a hopeless match for the low compliance Supex cartridges, and so the Sonus Blue was the best alternative. Sonus was an American cartridge brand, and my recollection is that the UK distributer simply stopped importing them.
I remember that when I thought the stylus could do with replacement I just couldn’t find one, and ended up buying an A&R P77 instead to replace it. I can still clearly remember the feeling of huge disappointment when I first played the P77.
Please note that dialing in tracking force by using the measurement at the arm pillar dial is not as accurate as using a decent digital gauge, or a SFG (made by Shure).
Bias setting is difficult…not wanting to open a debate, I use an unmodulated (no groove) part of a setup disc
Oh…and it seems to my ears that getting the capacitance right for Rega MCs is important…I use 100 Ohms and 1000pF, and it is quite apparent to me that these are best in my setup.
Happy listening!
I’ve just had a suggestion that Rega Aphelion works better with a Superline using 453R, and so swapped my 100R to the 500R supplied - what an improvement! Apparently the Superline behaves differently to Rega’s suggested optimals.