I don’t know whether this kind of effect is also familiar to you: For me, there exists a certain volume limit, which of course is varying on the moods of the day, that I do not exceed to avoid the playback simply getting annoying. Very often one or two decibels are enough to throw you from pleasure into – drastically speaking – pain. Where this limit is to be found, very much depends on the quality of the recording. From time to time I like to listen to some of Van Morrison’s songs like "Whatever Happened to PJ Proby?", which can be found on the album Down The Road, most of the time sourced from the hard drive of my computer. The voice turns up to have been mixed a little too far into the foreground, while the inevitable and for productions from the pop world typical compression, aggravated with now and then appearing sibilants left untamed by the de-esser, induce me to almost knee-jerk the volume control back to a stressless level. However, this record I own also as a double-vinyl album and get the track then played on the LaGrange: sadly the analogue version doesn’t show up as an audiophile revelation either. Nevertheless, the JR Tamino allows for a feel-good volume that’s a bit higher up the scale than feasible with other high-grade cartridges, and, of course, well above that of computer files. So, if you like to enjoy your favourite tunes in the future with the JR Tamino in a highly relaxed, but still intrigued manner, don’t ever say that I didn’t speak out a warning: Transrotor's "big" cartridge performs so harmoniously, homogeneously and without the slightest trace of annoyance, that a few more decibels won’t do any harm whensoever. An assessment like this, besides being done by someone who very much is used to higher volumes, by no means implies the reverse: even at very moderate levels, the JR Tamino with its colourfulness and low frequency capabilities won’t let you miss nothing at all.