Technics and Threshold?


This might sound crazy - but I recently acquired two pieces of gear at garage sales - thinking of putting them to use in my modest bedroom system that did not have analog until these things miraculously appeared:

A technics SLD3 turntable and a Threshold FET10pc phono stage.

I'll put just a few hundred bucks into getting them both going - technics should get a new cartridge - has an old inexpensive audiotechnica.

Any reason why this odd couple pairing can't co-exist (very inexpensive TT and fairly high end phono stage?)

Need a cartridge recommendation - budget is probaby 80-140 - thinking grado, ortofon, but open to suggestions and howls.

Have lots of vinyl - especially jazz - hasn't been heard in years.
gdoodle

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Thanks. It's worth spending on the cartridge for my precious jazz vinyl.... (The analog goes with the bedroom system bought at retail, it's the computer system that was only $35.) I've heard about the grado 10% thing. After I try to set it up hope it won't be sounding like the bottom percentile again. Thanks for the link.
Thanks - Grado sounds like a good place to start - no, I do not have stuff to do the proper set up, so that will be a another learning experience - again, I welcome your suggestions. How hard can it be...

I paid less for the Threshold than I usually pay for a used CD - power supply missing, but have a source for that who will also look over the whole unit. (...Typing at my computer surrounded by ESS monitors, $5 bucks ...powered by Rotel receiver, $30- both thrift shop.) I guess these things end up at garage sales and thrift shops due to death of owner. How many people really want to inherit a Threshold phonostage?
Orph: I have a confession. Ess's came with no diaphragm, just a big hole. I had no idea what brand they were - I assumed it was a manufacturers defect - which I promptly corrected with plywood.Years later I noticed my freind had the exact pair with the ESS logo - 610s for sure. Not sure I could find a replacement diaphragm anywhere...maybe just cut a smaller hole with lots of dampening material.... maybe they've had enough mutilation.