bms72, sorry that I am late to the game. You have a nice system. Power cords and isolators are not going to do much. But what will make a significant difference is a new tonearm. I believe you have a unipivot arm on that turntable. Unipivot arms have to many degrees of freedom, they are floppy and hard to keep perfectly aligned. Several cartridge manufacturers such as Lyra recommend against using them. They are particularly bad with medium to low compliance moving coil cartridges such as yours. Moving to an arm with fixed bearings will for certain improve bass and dynamics and may well improve other areas. Look at Origin Live, Kuzma, Reed and many others. VPI also now makes an arm with gimbal pivots which might be a direct replacement.
Upgrade
Hello,
I own the below system and I am looking for an improvement by upgrading one of the components (budget $2000-3000).
-Graham Audio LS5/8 (large BBC studio monitor speakers)
-Analysis Plus Oval 9 speaker cables
-Mark Levinson ML 23.5 power amp (completely recapped by Madrigal technician)
-Audio Research LS 5 MKII preamp (restored and new tubes)
-VPI Prime turntable with -Dynavector 20x2 H cartridge
-Parasound JC3+ phonostage
Quite standard power cords and interconnects, no power conditioner.
What change would make a significant difference? Larger soundstage, more liquid, open sound without loosing the dynamic punch?
Thank you for your time and I would appreciate any ideas.
I own the below system and I am looking for an improvement by upgrading one of the components (budget $2000-3000).
-Graham Audio LS5/8 (large BBC studio monitor speakers)
-Analysis Plus Oval 9 speaker cables
-Mark Levinson ML 23.5 power amp (completely recapped by Madrigal technician)
-Audio Research LS 5 MKII preamp (restored and new tubes)
-VPI Prime turntable with -Dynavector 20x2 H cartridge
-Parasound JC3+ phonostage
Quite standard power cords and interconnects, no power conditioner.
What change would make a significant difference? Larger soundstage, more liquid, open sound without loosing the dynamic punch?
Thank you for your time and I would appreciate any ideas.
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