He re's some things nobody mentioned.
Sure, the DC Player may sound more dynamic, of course have a much lower signal-noise ratio, and knock the house down with more bass, without acoustic break up.
Measures can be taken to enhance these qualities I mention with vinyl playback.
Are you noting that you have to considerably turn up the volume when playing your vinyl rig? If so, then no matter what folks say, that hi output MC's work just fine with MM phono stages, there may be a possibility that you don;t have enough gain at the phono stage?
Generally, the big boys here know that very well, to not rely on an integral phono stage placed inside a pre-amp, no matter what the vintage-cost of the pre-amp, and choose a high quality external phono stage instead.
It's often a sad fact, that the road to nirvana with analog can cost some beau coup bucks. On the other hand though, wise folks may tell you that throwing money at a problem may not necessarily solve it. Mark
Sure, the DC Player may sound more dynamic, of course have a much lower signal-noise ratio, and knock the house down with more bass, without acoustic break up.
Measures can be taken to enhance these qualities I mention with vinyl playback.
Are you noting that you have to considerably turn up the volume when playing your vinyl rig? If so, then no matter what folks say, that hi output MC's work just fine with MM phono stages, there may be a possibility that you don;t have enough gain at the phono stage?
Generally, the big boys here know that very well, to not rely on an integral phono stage placed inside a pre-amp, no matter what the vintage-cost of the pre-amp, and choose a high quality external phono stage instead.
It's often a sad fact, that the road to nirvana with analog can cost some beau coup bucks. On the other hand though, wise folks may tell you that throwing money at a problem may not necessarily solve it. Mark