Steely Dan - "The Royal Scam"
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Welcome @tunehead and nice choice on the Eno. That album just showed up in the mail this week, haven't had a chance to play it yet. |
Love it! "Never My Love" is (IMHO) one of the greatest songs EVER! Plus, on the greatest hits record you get "Windy", "Cherish" and "Along Came Mary". Unfortunately, you don't get my second favorite song from The Association - "Wantin' Ain't Gettin'". Check it out if you don't know it... |
The new Rega Ania MC cartridge is nice. My fist MC. Softer sounding (not as loud at same volume setting as my MM) but more focused I'd say. Not a huge difference to my ADC QLM 32 mk2 MM cartridge though (maybe that my 57 year old ears are accoustome to this sound as it's all I have really used for 40 years). Am I right to assume it needs X amount of hours to break in? So far, I'm happy. A new sound and experience is always welcome. |
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Hate to ask, but, you did change the switch from MM to MC on your phono stage to increase the gain to match the lower output of the MC cartridge? And yes, I believe all cartridges benefit from 50-100 hours of break-in. Should improve gradually over time until you get some hours on it. I haven't had an MC cartridge in a long time. The phono section in my current integrated amp only supports MM cartridges. |
The Steve Miller Band-Book Of Dreams Side 1 Seals & Crofts-Sudan Village Side 1 Little Johnny Taylor-Open House At My House(Contempo COLP-R-1003) Side 1 The Manhattan Transfer-Coming Out Side 1 Rita Coolidge-Anytime...Anywhere Side 1 SQ Audiophile Gino Vannelli-Nightwalker Side 2 SQ Audiophile* The Moody Blues-The Present Side 1 The Doobie Brothers-Livin’ On The Fault Line Side 2 Started off with a real turkey 3x platinum nonsense! My wife even commented this album is awful! Why did I play it? Was curious about the SQ which is just average. The SQ star here was Rita Coolidge. Mastered at The Mastering Lab-Mike Reese. The sound is tight/clean/focused/direct and detailed. Gino Vannelli has a slight digital edge that’s why the*. Dynamic would be the best way to describe this recording mastered by Bernie Grundman. Yes, I’m one of the few that enjoy watered down Moody Blues recordings from the 1980’s! |
@boxer12 Tim, since you’re on a King Crimson roll, do you have any of Fripp’s work when he was doing The League of Crafty Guitarists? Only time for one tonight, Firesign Theatre “Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers” Columbia 1970 |
Tunehead, Welcome! So I checked out the specs of your preamp & your cartridge. The MC setting on your pre gives you 50db gain & 100 ohms load. Your cartridge output is .35mv with a 100 ohm load recommendation. That stated, your cartridge output is fairly low (not extreme) as is the preamps 50db gain. This is why it sounds "softer" compared to your prior ADC MM. So yes, a separate phono preamp (say one with at least 60db gain) will correct the "softness" you hear & probably improve the cartridges performance overall. An SUT will do that as well but if you go through the MM section of your preamp you’ll be stuck with 47K ohm load. That could make the cartridge kind of bright. Either way, you’ll be looking at spending more money so unless you’re hearing "noise or distortion" with your current set up, I wouldn’t worry about it until you are ready to upgrade. Just my 2 cents |
@boxer12 , It’s too bad none of the craftys ended up on vinyl. I saw them perform twice and picked up the companion cassette which has many more tracks than the CD. @bkeske if you’re a Numbers Band fan (15-60-75), I received the remastered version (by Paul Hamann) of “Jimmy Bell’s Still In Town” on Exit Stencil records last week. Excellent remaster of a live recording at the Agora (the Mistake was downstairs) in Cleveland on 16 June 1975. They opened for Bob Marley and the Wailers. You can purchase directly from the Numbers Band website. The “Jackleg” LP is a Robert Kidney solo and also quite good. |
