Dear Nick: Sumiko Blackbird. This high output MC cartridge is a revelation. Very good performance.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
Please recommend Best MM catridge
Hi nickt, Since you've already got a MM phono section, why not try(arguably) the best MM cart on the market right now or ever made - The Cartridge Man Music Maker III. Check out the reviews on the MM3 webpage. It has a 4mV output and tracks like nobody's business. This is a superb cart for getting back into vinyl(in my fairly limited experience). There's one or two "New in Box" ones being sold here right now for $775 " The MusicMaker (Mk II) is an extremely interesting product; it links the best of both (MM and MC) worlds together; it is clean, accurate and detailed like a good MC while it has the warmth and the "weight" of the best MM's. "The first thing you notice is the solidity and presence it has compared to almost all MC cartridges. There's a sense of unstoppable momentum to music... The first and lasting impression of the MusicMaker, with perhaps excrutiatingly obvious tautology, is how well it makes music. Its ability to retrieve and to communicate the essentials of music making rhythmic and dynamic flow and articulation, organic and identifiable timbre, and sonic punctuation (phrasing, parsing, point of arrival and expression) - grabs one immediately. So convincing is the music making that one is loath to analyze just how it does it. It almost seems irrelevant to analytically break down its sonic performance; so convincing is its musical gestalt. At a time when many cartridges are named after insects, amphibians, various types of wood and gems, and references to Greek mythology, its refreshing to hear a cartridge literally named after what its supposed to do. |