I LOVE my Seduction! Probably one of my favorites pieces of gear that I have ever bought. You will be limited to a "higher" output MM cartridge. I tried about 5 or 6 different cartridges and finally settled on the Linn Adikt. Make sure you swap out the caps on the outputs. I used the Auricaps. I hear the V caps are quite wonderful, but VERY expensive.
Cartridge, Preamp advice: Bottlehead Seduction?
Hi,
I've been having a ball upgrading my mid-1980's system for the first time in over 20 years!
I now have a pair of Totem Arro's, a Unison Unico hybrid, integrated amp that was a "steal" here on Audiogon, a Music Hall CD 25.2 CD player for digital, and my dear, old SOTA Sapphire will soon be back from SOTA with a new bearing, belt and suspension springs. I'll soon be back in analogue business! :-)
The Sapphire has a Linn Basik tonearm on it, along with a very ancient Audioquest cartridge that will obviously need to be replaced. The tonearm will have to stay for the foreseeable future... by the time I buy a phono stage and interconnects and a new cartridge, my budget will be thoroughly maxed out for awhile.
It turns out that you can buy the phono card for the Unico and install it retroactively, but a Unison dealer told me that it's only "okay," on the level of, say, a Pro-Ject Phono Box (SS), and that for the $250 they were asking I could do better.
I've been thinking seriously of buying and building a Bottlehead Seduction phono stage and pairing it with one of the better MM cartridges out there (maybe Shure or Ortofon) and I was wondering what people more knowledgeable then I (that would be all of you) think of that, along with how it might mesh with the rest of my system.
P.S. — I understand that the Seduction would limit me to MM cartridges, since it doesn't really have the gain for MC.
I've been having a ball upgrading my mid-1980's system for the first time in over 20 years!
I now have a pair of Totem Arro's, a Unison Unico hybrid, integrated amp that was a "steal" here on Audiogon, a Music Hall CD 25.2 CD player for digital, and my dear, old SOTA Sapphire will soon be back from SOTA with a new bearing, belt and suspension springs. I'll soon be back in analogue business! :-)
The Sapphire has a Linn Basik tonearm on it, along with a very ancient Audioquest cartridge that will obviously need to be replaced. The tonearm will have to stay for the foreseeable future... by the time I buy a phono stage and interconnects and a new cartridge, my budget will be thoroughly maxed out for awhile.
It turns out that you can buy the phono card for the Unico and install it retroactively, but a Unison dealer told me that it's only "okay," on the level of, say, a Pro-Ject Phono Box (SS), and that for the $250 they were asking I could do better.
I've been thinking seriously of buying and building a Bottlehead Seduction phono stage and pairing it with one of the better MM cartridges out there (maybe Shure or Ortofon) and I was wondering what people more knowledgeable then I (that would be all of you) think of that, along with how it might mesh with the rest of my system.
P.S. — I understand that the Seduction would limit me to MM cartridges, since it doesn't really have the gain for MC.
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