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| Cartridge Upgrade ...AT ART-9? BTW what is the official price for ART9 factory RETIP or REFURBISH ?Is it possible or nobody cares when buying them ? | |
| Cartridge Upgrade ...AT ART-9? The SL-15 uses a p-mount cartridge, of which your choices are severely limited to conical and bonded elliptical moving magnet designs. Not at all. Simply find an amazing P-Mount cartridges designed by Stanton back in the 70s/80s with Nude Stereoh... | |
| best mm/mc preamp under $200 and best mc cartridge under $500 for an SME 3009 S2 arm ? Bass slam & needing extra treble to the point of being too bright is the most important factor to me. I’m still not sure how you can get these from a $130-200 phono stage? The bass is the most problematic for all cheap phono stages, not onl... | |
| It's back! LoL | |
| It's back! @mjcmt The SP-10R is the one to get excited aboutyes, some of us already have them, those top of the line technics model discussed here since 2017 But it's so amazing that Technics continued with turntables priced under $1400 in 2019 | |
| It's back! @sleepwalker65 there is an automatic lift up of the tonearm on that new 1500c | |
| best mm/mc preamp under $200 and best mc cartridge under $500 for an SME 3009 S2 arm ? @tablejockey The subject is LOW BUDGET + performance. yeah, with pocket size bluetooth speakers | |
| Gold Note PH10, Bryston BP2, Clear Audio Smart V2 Then you have to try 100k Ohm for MM to see if you like it better than 47k Ohm. Cap switches on iPhono 2 does not make any improvement for me, it was hard to detect any difference. JLTi if the most versatile MM phono stage for me (also nice for MC... | |
| best mm/mc preamp under $200 and best mc cartridge under $500 for an SME 3009 S2 arm ? Hmm.. That does not look bad to me at about $130, especially with a PASSIVE RIAA equalizerYou can judge only when you will make a comparison by yourself in your system with your cartridges. Even if someone will try to make it yourself (DIY) the... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade ...AT ART-9? Re-tipping Technics cartridges is a very bad idea, refurbishing it with a different cantilever is a completely waste of money. I don’t want to start all over again, it’s all on this forum and anyone can search for it. Andy destroyed jpjones cartri... | |
| Gold Note PH10, Bryston BP2, Clear Audio Smart V2 I have read a lot of amazing reports on how nice the PH 10 plays, however it has a fixed capacitance on MM at 200 pf, which is pretty close to where I have mine set at; I think I am around 250 pf., so it will most likely work fairly well until the... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) Nice, let us know when you will be able to get the pricelist, thanks | |
| best mm/mc preamp under $200 and best mc cartridge under $500 for an SME 3009 S2 arm ? You must be kidding? $200 for mm/mc preamp??? It's not enough even for simple MC step up stansformer if the sound quality is what you're looking for. I think even for used MM/MC phono stage $400-500 is minimum.But $500 is fine for a great cartridg... | |
| Upcoming Technics SP-10R (100th Anniversary Model) @smer319 The Technics SL-1000R is $18000.00 The SL-1200G is a bargain at $3995.00 The Technics SL-1000R is finally in our store...Who's the lucky one ? Sunny Components Inc, USA626-966-6259. We shall be displaying the new 1000 Technics ... | |
| Cartridge Upgrade ...AT ART-9? You can just buy this brand new Technics SL1500c that coming later this year. The best design in my opinion. There is a built-in phono stage as i can see in the press-release ? " Las Vegas, NV, United States, 7 January 2019 – Technics today unveil... |