I agree with Raymonda and several others who have suggested that a turntable should not be chosen based on its alleged suitability for a specific genre. Regardless of the kind of music it would be used to listen to, it should be chosen to be as uncolored and accurate as possible, within budgetary constraints of course.
That said, if you do want to try to optimize a given turntable/tonearm/cartridge combination so as to make reproduction of 1960s rock sound as pleasing as possible, an approach that I suspect would be more effective and more practical than most would be to install a moving magnet cartridge and experiment with different capacitive loadings. This kit from DB Systems would be helpful in that regard.
Also, while I’m not familiar with the FM Acoustics Linearizer you mentioned having, based on general familiarity with the brand I’d expect that whatever functions it may perform are implemented in a high quality (and expensive) manner. However, if that device doesn’t do the trick for you, and if you are willing to invest a few $thousands in a component that provides exceptionally flexible equalization capabilities, with audible side-effects that nearly all users (including me) report to be somewhere between negligible and none, and that also provides many other functions that may be useful to you, consider purchasing one of the models from DEQX.
Regards,
-- Al
That said, if you do want to try to optimize a given turntable/tonearm/cartridge combination so as to make reproduction of 1960s rock sound as pleasing as possible, an approach that I suspect would be more effective and more practical than most would be to install a moving magnet cartridge and experiment with different capacitive loadings. This kit from DB Systems would be helpful in that regard.
Also, while I’m not familiar with the FM Acoustics Linearizer you mentioned having, based on general familiarity with the brand I’d expect that whatever functions it may perform are implemented in a high quality (and expensive) manner. However, if that device doesn’t do the trick for you, and if you are willing to invest a few $thousands in a component that provides exceptionally flexible equalization capabilities, with audible side-effects that nearly all users (including me) report to be somewhere between negligible and none, and that also provides many other functions that may be useful to you, consider purchasing one of the models from DEQX.
Regards,
-- Al