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“When I started listening to the Meditteraneo I tried not to judge its sound quality too harshly, as I was aware that this equipment needed to break-in a while before it was sonically up to speed (pun not intended). So I listened to music as I regularly do – as I tried my best to listen to the music, rather than the sound quality of the music. Still, these initial impressions were good. But to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure how many of the sonic characteristics I was hearing were due to the turntable, tonearm or cartridge. Many seasoned audiophiles are well aware that the when judging an analog set up, it is the turntable that determines the sound the most, and by a large margin. This is followed by the tonearm, then the cartridge. Think about it: no one with any sense is likely to mount a $10,000 cartridge on a department store turntable and expect it to sound any better than a department store turntable. After some long listening sessions with the Meditteraneo I switched out the Gold Note phono cartridge for my current reference Kesiki Purple Heart. I also listened to the Tuscany Gold mounted on the Tri-Planar tonearm/Basis turntable combination, as well as spending some time going back to my usual set up of the Basis / Tri-Planar / Kesiki.”