I have a lot of cartridges. The best of my better MC cartridges has been an Ortofon Per Winfeld, but I have more recently been happier with the sound of a SoundSmith Experion, which is a MI, based on the older Bang & Olufson design, which in turn is based on an old Grado design. Anyway the Experion is sublime. I have two turntables in this system, a VPI HW40, and a Technics SL1200GAE sitting side by side. I usually have the SL1200 set up for Mono and the HW40 for Stereo. I listen to a lot of old jazz and so need both, back and forth all the time. Speakers are Sony SS-AR2.
There is a host of other stuff, cables, rcm, digital stuff, SUT and on and on. My grandmother got me started in this hobby, I am 72 years old now and have records in my collection acquired when I was 11 or 12 years old. A lot of stuff.
Before I bought the GAT2, I had an ET5 and it was indeed hard on tube, singular it only had one. The GAT2 seems to have solved that problem. I believe the high gain, combined with using one tube for both channels was asking too much of one tube in the ET55. Anyway, it sounded marvelous until it got noisy, about every 6 months for me, but I play my system 2-4 or more hours every day. The ET3 doesn't make the same demand on the tubes. It is really a great design.
There is a host of other stuff, cables, rcm, digital stuff, SUT and on and on. My grandmother got me started in this hobby, I am 72 years old now and have records in my collection acquired when I was 11 or 12 years old. A lot of stuff.
Before I bought the GAT2, I had an ET5 and it was indeed hard on tube, singular it only had one. The GAT2 seems to have solved that problem. I believe the high gain, combined with using one tube for both channels was asking too much of one tube in the ET55. Anyway, it sounded marvelous until it got noisy, about every 6 months for me, but I play my system 2-4 or more hours every day. The ET3 doesn't make the same demand on the tubes. It is really a great design.