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Beginning the Analog Adventure

So I recently moved into a new appartment (and will revise my system accordingly soon) and just hooked up my music hall 2.1 again and it sounds better than ever, well everything in my new room sounds sooo much better...but really what hit me is that I want to move more into the analog direction as my system evolves.

so the question is where I go. right now I have a Music Hall 2.1 tt and rega phono stage running to my krell HTS as a preamp (in preamp mode) and then to krell mono's

I'm going to buy a bunch more vinyl either way, but should I upgrade my phono stage and TT now...and if so what should I look at.

thinking a price range of 500 to 1000 and am very willing to purchase used.

thanks for the input...my hi-fi store dosen't deal too much with analog

-Steve
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pauly
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Ok, I'll buck the trend here.

You should get quite a bump in performance by upgrading to something like used VPI HW, especially if you can get the Mk 4 version. You should be able to get one with arm within your budget.

Your budget does not allow a nice upgrade of both TT and phono, but you can at least do one and I would suggest the TT first.

If you can swing a soldering iron you could consider building a phono kit. The bottlehead Seduction is good value. You can also look at the Hagerman kits and my all time fav, the Audionote phono kit. They will cost a fraction of the commercially available phonos and IMHO leave them for dead.

Regards
Paul
pauly
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If you are interested in phono kits try http://audionotekits.espyderweb.net/, http://www.bottlehead.com/ and http://www.hagtech.com/. There are a few others around, but I have personal experience with these companies and their kits and customer service are first rate.

For scratch building best is just to do a google search.

Regards
Paul
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