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Help with adding turntable to my room...cartridge advice for Rega P6
I am setting up a new room and looking for some help with my phono set up. I am running a Prima Luna EVO 400 into a pair of Dynaudio Evoke 50s. Enjoying this a lot right now and ready to add vinyl. Going to inherit a great vinyl collection from my father - a lot of 70's classic rock - my tastes generally ranger from harder rock to Grateful Dead, with a lot in between (Phish, MMJ). But less classical and traditional jazz. The room itself, is if anything, just a tiny bit bassy - noticing that on lower quality source material - high quality well recorded digital source sounds nearly perfect to my ears. Still dialing in the whole set up.
I have committed to a Rega P6 turntable (on the way) without a cartridge and will need to add a phono stage. For purpose of the discussion let's assume my budget for both is ideally $1,000 and definitely under $2k.
Ease of use and my ability to set this all up is going to be a factor. Have never set up a table myself, but generally handy as long as no soldering involved - but know next to nothing about VTA / SRA and at the end of the day want to listen to music.
On the phono stage side have been considering:
- Simaudio Moon
- Vincent Audio Pho 500
- Cambridge duo;
- Project S2
Cartridges are throwing me for a loop - leaning toward MC :
- Ortofon Quintet blue (feel like the black will be overkill)
- Hana EL or SL (will I need spacers);
- other good MC matches? or
- do I go with a MM like a Ortofon Bronze and call it a day....
I know this topics has been discuss to death over and over - but need help coming out the other side.
Thanks to anyone with some thoughts or advice.
Tim
I have committed to a Rega P6 turntable (on the way) without a cartridge and will need to add a phono stage. For purpose of the discussion let's assume my budget for both is ideally $1,000 and definitely under $2k.
Ease of use and my ability to set this all up is going to be a factor. Have never set up a table myself, but generally handy as long as no soldering involved - but know next to nothing about VTA / SRA and at the end of the day want to listen to music.
On the phono stage side have been considering:
- Simaudio Moon
- Vincent Audio Pho 500
- Cambridge duo;
- Project S2
Cartridges are throwing me for a loop - leaning toward MC :
- Ortofon Quintet blue (feel like the black will be overkill)
- Hana EL or SL (will I need spacers);
- other good MC matches? or
- do I go with a MM like a Ortofon Bronze and call it a day....
I know this topics has been discuss to death over and over - but need help coming out the other side.
Thanks to anyone with some thoughts or advice.
Tim
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I had a Rega P3-24 which I have passed on to my son. I replaced the Elys 2 with an Exact 2. At the time, I was a bit of a novice at TT setup so l liked the simplicity of using a Rega cartridge. Rega cartridges get some grief on some of these forums, but the Exact is a very good cartridge. If you want to screw around with spacers, the Hana SL is excellent. I use it on my Technics SL1200 G. BTW, if you shop around, you can get an Exact 2 for less than $600. |
I am going to piss everyone off: Fluance rt85 belt-drive with a Denon DL-103 cart. I took it on the advice of another couple of users and I have not regretted it. It is a good neutral cartridge that plays well across nearly all genres of music that I listen to (Teuvian Throat singing is a different beast but...). Jazz, instrumental, symphonic, rock all do well. Any tweaking I need to do, I can use my equalizer to a degree. |
Consider this, its made for your table. No fuss, just attach to arm, set tracking force/antiskate and GO! https://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=REANIAPRO it's a MC in your price range. 2 adjustments- just attach to arm,adjust tracking force and antiskate.. |
