Keel: When I first set ears on the LP12 with the Keel in place of my original steel subchassis, laminate tonearm board, and standard Ekos mounting collar, I was surprised: Even with the cheap-and-cheerful Linn Adikt cartridge in the headshell of the Ekos SE, the sound was both bigger and richer than I'd expected. Which raises an interesting question: What exactly had I expected? Increased detail, for one thing. The only drawback-heard more than once in the past few weeks, for whatever reason-was that low-frequency noises, such as the foot-banging in Martha Argerich and Mstislav Rostropovich's recording of Chopin's Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op.65 (Deutsche Grammophon 2531 201), and the 60Hz hum and brink-of-feedback dreadnought boom throughout the first disc of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 4 Way Street (Atlantic SD 2-902), were also stronger, and thus more intrusive.
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