Denon DL103 bought in Asia- What to expect?


I was wandering Hong Kong yesterday (I'll post another thread soon re. audio adventures in China and Hong Kong) mostly looking for some car accessories when my audiophile mojo kicked in and I stumbled across a Denon DL103. After some haggling I bought it for $180 U.S.

My current set up: Oracle Delphi IV 'table, Oracle SME345 arm, Grado Sonata MM pickup, Primare phono stage.

The Denon is a MC cart, I'm not concerned about my phono stage's ability to step up .3mv I'm 6000 miles away from my rig right now *sigh* I am curious how the DL103 will sound compared to my current cart, any and all opinions are most welcome. Best, Jeff
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it might be late, now it is 2006. Still there is something I like to post. I used the DL 103 and have changed to the DL 103R at a cost of us$249 from Audiocubes not including postage. Since then the first record I put on my P-25 is guitar music, not group but solo nylon strings instrument playing classical, spanish etc, the timbre, clarity, harmonics from this instrument are haunting, the DL 103R is that good.

But I must mention my rig, otherwise it is meaningless.

P-25
DL 103R/Lehmann Audio BC
Musicable i/c now looking for AQ Lapis/Emerald x3
AQ Clear loudspeaker cable (first generation circa 1993)
Union Research/Unico P
Audio Physic Yara