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| How much difference will a phono stage upgrade make? Here is a factory tour: Manley Labs' Chino, California headquarters | |
| What's your go-to cheapie cartridge? ouch, so i am completely off-topic here with my recommendations I must say $50 for Klipsch MCZ is a steal, it's a $500 minimum, lucky you. I paid much more for my MCZ-10 Ruby, but at least it was factory sealed. | |
| Tonearms with no anti-skate adjustment InterestingI remember when Thomas Schick's tonearm was designed without antiskating, it was about 5-7 years ago when i bought my Schick "12. At that time the designer said antiskating is not needed for such a long tonearm. But now i can see on his... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Each time we’re discussing a "new discoveries" please add the reference cartridges you’re comparing your "cart of the week" to (in both directions weather it MM/MI or MC). One vintage MM cartridge can be better than others, but when you comparing ... | |
| Technics SL-1700 feet Sorry but precisely because rare but above all very expensive (2 or 3 times more than the Technics 1700) it is absolutely useless to advise them. AT616 can be used not only under turntables, but under a table platform itself, because those feet (... | |
| What's your go-to cheapie cartridge? @tonyptony Let me be clear and say again that the 103R is *my* go-to right now, although I’ve been curious about other carts in this price range. One thing I love about it is, frankly, the elliptical stylus. You’re wrong, because the original st... | |
| sony vl -5 cartage & nd5g any good ? Don't know about this cartridge, but i have one SONY MM cartridge in collection. I bought on my own risk, but when i played first record with SONY XL-50 i was blown away, really. | |
| What's your go-to cheapie cartridge? @tonyptony maybe not exactly $300, but very close to it under $450 if you're lucky:Audio-Technica AT-ML150 OCC would be a perfect choice within your budget. It is a good start, two other upper models in this series are simply the best ever, but fo... | |
| My Personal Gift The Luxman PD-171 A Turntable. Welcome to the Luxman fan club!I got a pair of PD-444 and their tube amp wasn't bad too | |
| Technics SL-1700 feet @john421 just add ISONOE and you will be fine, for higher budget buy AT616 Pneumatic Insulators (very rare) as they can support much higher weight up to 130lbs (can be used under any turntable, including superheavy ones if you will ever upgrade yo... | |
| Want to upgrade my cartridge from 2m blue to black @uberwalts Jico used to make stylus for the 981 but a Pickering XSV3000 should work just as well. Which are a little easier to find and cheaper! Jico never made SAS stylus for Stanton/Pickering, all they did is cheap generic Elliptical repla... | |
| How much difference will a phono stage upgrade make? I think a huge upgrade can be made if you will replace a tube phono stage with some decent new generation SS phono stage. Look for Gold Note PH-10 with external PSU if you want to try the most versatile SS phono stage with two inputs for whatever ... | |
| Technics SL-1700 feet The original Technics feet must be replaced on any old Technics turntable, no matter which model, those original feet provides ZERO isolation and Technics notorious for bass feedback picket up even by MM cartridge. So the first thing to do it to a... | |
| Dynavector cartridges, old and new @harrylavo Dynavector made several versions of KARAT Ruby, the better version have "MicroReach" stylus profile, the older version has just an Elliptical stylus. Same about Karat Diamond, the better versions are all have MicroReach and MicroRidge d... | |
| Technics SL-1700 feet And if you want something very special just remove all feet and put your Technics right on the flat and fully udjustable rare Audio-Technica AT616 Pneumatic Insulators. |