Time to upgrade my turntable?
This Technics SL-1200GR or SL-1500C would be a nice upgrade. It might be more than your budget but you set 'em and forget 'em! https://www.technics.com/us/products/grand-class/sl1200g-series/sl-1200gr.html https://www.technics.com/us/products/premium-class/sl-1500c.html |
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mijostyn
you should be be so negative about DSP. You will also be using it eventually. Actually, you already are. Every recent recording you have was manipulated by DSP. Ignorance is bliss. They also use reverb, delay, compressors & all kinds of equipment to MAKE the recordings that aren't used in playback. There is a difference between MAKING and PLAYING a recording. I see your problem. You don't know Shite from Shimola. But I suspect it makes for a blissful life for you. |
This Technics SL-1200GR or SL-1500C would be a nice upgrade. It might be more than your budget but you set 'em and forget 'em! Right, between GR and 1500c I would add new mk7 which is exactly $1000 with warranty, sometimes it cost even less! The problem with some audiogon posters is complete lack of knowledge about Technics products and other Japanese Direct Drives, most people brainwashed by belt drive propaganda. |
Ortofon can be expected to claim the cartridge is the most important element. But the best cartridge in the world will sound terrible if the turntable and arm are not well enough engineered to retain the stylus in precisely the correct orientation in the groove. People do not use GRAMOPHONES these days, modern turntables are very well engineered and tonearms are nice, even those cheap Rega and Project are good toys. Platter will make far less difference than a cartridge for example. Any modern phonostage can work nicely with MM, even Schiit mani for $100. Better cartridge will make any mediocre system better. |
