Its always good to hear from other Decca fans! I think they are criminally overlooked and under-reviewed. Some of this is a result of QC and tracking problems back in the day. Dopogue describes them very well: "exceptionally dynamic, involving, and open, with excellent bass." They do many things that expensive Moving Coils don't. Listening to one playing a properly mastered and pressed UK record is, at least to my ears, getting close to what a master tape sounds like. My only complaint is that mine has a slight hum that I've been unable to identify the source. But everything else is so "right" about it that I'm able to live with it.
Eee3, have you done any mods or rewiring to that Keith Monks tonearm? I have often been tempted to buy one of those. Of course there's always the Decca International Tonearm!
Warren Gregoire is using Decca's with a Dynavector 507 and swears by that combination. I just read on another Agon thread that someone is using the Gold and the Reference with the funky RS Labs RS-A1 tonearm and prefers it to much more expensive tonearms/carts. This to me is very intriguing. The thread is here:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1220542524&openfrom&1&4#1
Steve
Eee3, have you done any mods or rewiring to that Keith Monks tonearm? I have often been tempted to buy one of those. Of course there's always the Decca International Tonearm!
Warren Gregoire is using Decca's with a Dynavector 507 and swears by that combination. I just read on another Agon thread that someone is using the Gold and the Reference with the funky RS Labs RS-A1 tonearm and prefers it to much more expensive tonearms/carts. This to me is very intriguing. The thread is here:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1220542524&openfrom&1&4#1
Steve