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Intriguing world of Analog

I am an aspiring audiophile and have enjoyed the forum postings on Audiogon over the past few months. I am impressed by the number of people with such advanced knowledge on audiophile subjects and who are willing to share their knowledge with others. I have become intriqued with the seemingly complex world of turntables, tone arms, cartridges and many other itemes related to analog music. I've seen pictures of turntables having numerous tone arms associted therewith and I am curious as to why one would need multiple tone arms. Many years have passed from the day I had a record player and we would tape a penny to the tone arm above the cartridge to keep the record from bouncing off the record. I'm sure the analogophiles reading this post are clutching their chests and gasping for air at the thought of it.

Somehow I feel another obsession coming on.

If I wanted to make an initial foray into the analog world of music what would be a good starting point? Is there a turn-key solution where you purcahse a table, tone arm and cartridge in one fell swoop? I would be willing to spend from $1500-$2,000.

My current sysem is as follows: Classe CA 200 amp, Classe CDP 35 preamp, B&W Matrix 802 series III speakers, and a Yamaha RX Z11 AV receiver. My preamp has a phono location on the source knob.

Will I need a separate phono amp or can I use my Yamaha reciever?

Your help and recommendations would be greatly appreicated.
papajoe

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rauliruegas
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Dear Papajoe: As important as is the hardware more important is the software, how many LPs do you have? enough to be worth it?

Btw, in your Classe preamp you can add a phono card that I think will be of better quality performance than the one on the Yamaha.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
rauliruegas
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Dear Buconero117: I own several tonearms ( 20+ ) and the main reason to that is that I can match almost any cartridge to the right tonearm where I can achieve the best cartridge quality performance.

The same cartridge with a different tonearm souns different but exist one tonearm where that cartridge show its best.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
rauliruegas
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Dear Joe: The manual say that the Line 1 could change to Phono ( with the phono card ), you don't have a TT/cartridge to find out but in the manual in Fig. 6 are some toggle-switches with labels: take out the cover plate and see inside if you find out those switches.
No I don't think you can/could find a phono card through Agon, my advise is that you ask directly to Classé.

For what you say maybe is worth to it and you have to think in a three speed TT: 33/45/78 like the Technics SP-10 or SP-15

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

regards and enjoy the music.
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