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| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable Photos of my Denon DP80 in 2" slate slab w/Triplanar and Koetsu Urushi, plus a photo of my SP10 Mk2A in a similar slab with RS-A1 and Ortofon MC7500. Are now posted on my system site, since I don't know how to post them right here. | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? I guess this thread is on its last legs, or already dead. I for one would love to hear from anyone who is using a vintage phono stage with an MM cartridge. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? You mean all that stuff Elizabeth Taylor collected all those years was merely aluminum oxide and/or corundum? Do not tell my wife that her sapphire ring is just another inorganic chemical. | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dear Raul, In your seminal post to start this thread, you mentioned that you prefer the older B&O cartridges, with sapphire cantilevers, to the SoundSmith versions, which have ruby cantilevers, and you attributed the sonic differences to sapph... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dgob, I don't think any real world LP can reproduce a 15Hz signal, more like 30Hz is the lower limit, excepting specially made LPs that may exist. Regarding the Nagaoka MP50. Both the MP50 (not the Super version espoused by Raul) and the MP500 can... | |
| Dynavector XV-1S impressions? Just for the heck of it, what is your "set up"? | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? That's a review of the Vinyl Reference, their more expensive phono stage, driven by an MC cartridge, so its relevance to the present discussion is limited. | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? Art Audio Vinyl One, MM only = $2400, new. It's a little above budget but I bet it's very good. | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? Did not know that existed. I have never seen one advertised that was MM-dedicated. Thanks for bringing it to our attention; have you heard it? Can you compare it to anything? | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable I think a large dollop of the goodness of this set-up is bolting the Triplanar very firmly to the slate. In theory, any energy put into the tonearm by the Koetsu is going to be traveling down the tonearm and into 70-lbs of slate, where it would ea... | |
| Vintage Denon Direct Drive Turntable I've just finished my second evening of listening to my DP80 mounted in a 70-lb slate plinth with Triplanar tonearm bolted directly to and thru the plinth (no discrete armboard) and a Koetsu Urushi. I am ecstatic, as you might guess from the fact ... | |
| Who needs a MM cartridge type when we have MC? Dgob, That Nagaoka MP50, is it a vintage "Super" version, or is it the current model available from Thakker, for example? Also, since this thread is about MMs, how do you like it? Thanks | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? Pablovila, Your list of candidate MM preamps looks like the one I posted on 6/26. I consider it incomplete. Below $1500 we also have the PS Audio GCPH and the Graham Slee Reflex, discussed above. Just to make it more confusing, I wonder how some o... | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? Rockinrobin, I am going to guess that your experience is an overall endorsement of the Reflex. If it were not doing a good job, you might not hear a big difference between the two cartridges. Now you should try the Reflex alone driven by a Grace R... | |
| Dedicated phono-pre for MM only? In my list of candidate MM phono stages posted 6/26, I neglected to include the Graham Slee Gold Era Reflex (hope I got the long name right). The Reflex was specifically designed for MM and HOMC. Further, it got great reviews from some respected s... |