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Have a ClearAudio Concept TT with ClearAudio Satisfy carbon arm with a Denon DL 110 attached. It's all plugged into a Jolida JD9 II phono pre. It sounds nice, but I think the table/arm are capable of better. And yes, I have tubes coming for the Jolida. Anyways, being somewhat unschooled as of today, I'm unsure of what to watch for as far as arm/cart/phono pre matching goes.
Would you gentlemen be so kind as to let me know what carts are compatible with my set up please. Prefer HOMC, but willing to try a quality MM as well. I don't want to purchase a step up transformer at this point, so that limits my options.
Anyone have any suggestions?? Something I can live with for a year or two before upgrading again. And please don't say Denon DL 110 please.

Thanks,
Shawn
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lewm
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shawnlh OP
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Thanks for the responses gentlemen. I appreciate your time and efforts, and some of my questions have been answered very well. I think I'm still going to experiment with carts just to see what they sound like as it's going to be sometime before I upgrade my equipment. I'll purchase used units so hopefully I can resell without taking a big hit. And it's nice to know that my current phono pre/tt arm can handle a wide variety of carts. My next TT purchase will be a ClearAudio Ovation and a Decware phono stage, but that is several months down the road.
Thanks again fellas.
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