First- if you just bought a preamp and phono stage, I would give them at minimum a month to break in before doing anything. Then, if you have a dealer, bring in the Linn for a checkup, probably get a new belt at least and probably a new stylus for the cart. Then see where you are. In my experience with Linn, they are very dependent on where they sit, so you might try some different platforms. I had very good results with a corian shelf myself. You can really tune the sound more than you would think.
Do I upgrade my cartridge or my turntable
I just bought a new preamp a rouge rp7 and a pro ject tube box DS3B phono preamp. I also replaced the phono cable with a fully balanced set with xlr ends. My turn table is a 1989 linn basik with a akito 2 tone arm and a linn adikt cartridge. The old preamp was a linn pretec. The rest of my system is a Bryston 4 B power amp a pair of Dynaudio special forty speakers and a rel S510 sub woofer. My speeker wire is Naim audio solid copper coated with silver.all my interconnect cabels are solid braided silver. Now when I play vynal there is a vast improvement in sound now but I would like to get more seperation and be Abel to hear the different instruments better, when listening to classical and jazz.also get a bit deeper base my highs and mids are great. When I listen to other styles of music on vynal I am good with it. Now do I upgrade my cartridge at this point or do I need to upgrade to a linn lp12 at this point I like linn turntabels .Thank you Michael.
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@chayro gave good advice IMO. I’d be inclined to climb up the cartridge or stylus food chain before swapping the TT.
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You really have lots of great options. One big improvement would be to upgrade the bearing on your table. The con I have a contemporary lp12 which I bought at the midlevel an then have upgraded to nearly the top level. I upgraded the sub chassis and arm, very worthwhile. Lots of great upgrades to be had with your table. if your cartridge is doing great, I would do the bearing and power supply first. |
Thank you for the responces. the first thing i will do is to let the new tube preamp and tube phono preamp break in for at least 250 hours of use. As for the linn basik turntable i had a full tune up done on it as well as the current linn adikt cartridge installed and the belt replaced. I was told that it is in excelent condition both functionaly and asteticly. As for upgrading the braring and the power supply i cant they are not interchangeabel to the basik turntabel only work with the lp12. the only things i can up grade are the cartridge and the akito2 tonearm. was told dont wasist money on a tone arm on the basik that i wont get much improvemrnt out of it. or to upgrade to a different cartridge. Now if i replace the cartridge where do i go do i stay with linn and go with a MC or do i go somewhere else. if i dont get the improvements i am looking for with a cartridge up grade then i am going to get a lp12 and transfer the tone arm and new cartridge over. Now with a lp12 is there any models i should look at that i can up grade and improve on as money allows .thank you Michael. |
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