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Need a cartridge and phono preamp reccomendation

Greetings
I am seriously considering an upgrade to my current vinyl system
I have a grado gold cartridge and a bellari vp129 tube preamp, the table is a Rega P25 I would like to to find a moving coil cartridge and a different phono preamp as the Bellari wont work with a MC.

I have a budget of about 500-600 to play with perhaps a litle more, thru a friend of mine I can get a decent deal on sumiko product and pro-ject phono preamps.

I was wondering if the Sumiko blue point special EVO can work with my current bellari since its a high output?

would this be a good match or should I upgrade the bellari for a project box preamp?

any suggestions greatly appreciated

Thanks

For what its worth I have martin logans CL2's and adcom GFP-710 preamp and adcom power amp and sub.
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uru975
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Totally agree with the PV11. It is the one component that I sold and regret doing so. Moved up the Premier 16 but for a second system...
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
Uru975,

I understand your regret. Our current preamp runs rings around a PV11, as it should for $12K, but that c-j made music we could always listen to. It just refused to do anything ugly. It's sitting on a shelf but we just can't bear to sell it. It was our first piece of high end gear. Sniff! ;-)

Heh. I slipped the PV11 into the system while my partner was at work, then spun up a familiar record while he was cooking dinner. He came flying out of the kitchen, "What did you do? That sounds incredible!" LOL.

The joke was on me though, I bought it for his birthday. :-)

dinkylink OP
9 posts
 
Ok got a Conrad Johnson PV2A! (quick tests the kids were asleep)sounds very good!
I am seriously considering the AT-150MLX or the Nagaoka MP-50
Update! My dad Gave me a Monster cable Alpha 1 MC he had for a while I would need a steup transformer and would rather not go the MC route based on what I read, I might end up auctioning it off to offset the cost of my new cartridge

thanks again for pointing me to audio heaven, any additional advice is truly appreicated..
dinkylink OP
9 posts
 
just to add more confusion to the mix, my audiophile friend insists that I get a Denon DL-160 as it works well on my Rega and save my money for more records

I am a little concern on how it will mate with my CJ based on the great info provided by Dougdeacon in particular floor noise I wish I had the money and time to test all these combinations... dont we all!
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
Check the link in answer #1 from my first response to see if your new phono will have enough gain for a DL-160.
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