Linn LP12 & Miyajima Madake or ?
A little bit sad today, as I waited for about 3 months to get my Shindo Vosne-Romanee up where I am building my system in NorCal. Put the system together for a week and it was magical. A day before all my friends came up, I was enjoying some Aretha and noticed some dust forming so I stopped the record to clean it, somehow, someway - I taccidentally hit the cantilever of my Krystal MC on the LP12. Uoofff. It bent back all the way. I tried my best to straighten it out, got another few hours out of it. Right as my friends came over, put on Purple Rain, so much distortion - tried to adjust it and ultimately snapped off. Brutal. I guess luckily had a Naim Wireless Speaker I could set up outside, of course not the same lol.
ANYWAYS! With a lot of money down the drain and the need to replace the cartridge ! I am curious!
I spoke to Jeremy at BasilAudio who could trade in the broken Krystal and just get a replacement which is probably the most cost effective method. But I began to think of other possibilities! Firstly, I know some peoples thoughts on the LP12. The reality is that, while yes expensive, I think as you move up the ladder, the LP12 is pretty magical and I know not all feel this way!
So I could move up the Linn ladder. The system has an Ekos arm and Lingo Power supply, so it makes sense to me that it could easily move up.
Buttttt... I recently learned of the Madake from Miyajima and curious if it could work. I have heard both yes and no from a few forums. Anyone have any idea of this? I haven't yet reached out to the them to ask.
Alternatively, I do need to buy 1 or 2 turntables for Thatcher's Wine flagship shop opening later this year anyways, so its a possibility that I could move the LP12 there, but if I was looking at the Madake, what would work better? And considering it would paired with an Shindo Vosne and A23 SUT Homage.(which I don't quite have yet, so I have the ability to make adjustments if needed bases on the Cart)
Appreciate your thoughts!
Dear @soundandmadeira91 : I owned the Linn Akiva that outperforms the Krystal both in my system.
The Kandid is too superior to the Krystal and I think that Linn could takes in change for the Kandid plus some money. One of the advantage of the Linn cartridges ( I owned too the Arkiv. ) is that continuity of the coil wire to the tonearm/headshell input connectors and obviously that the Kandid makes a very good match with the Ekos tonearms that as the Ortofon ones are made by Jelco.
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@jolywins Which Model of Cartridge has incurred the damage to the Armature? Seeking out a New Model as a replacement is one option, which could prove to be the most expensive choice made. Once your Cart' Model is known something else might be proposed for your consideration. |
