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Hello All,

I just recently purchased a creek obh 9 mc phono stage at my dads request for his turntable assembly. To his mistake he found out his shure v15 IV is a mm phono cartridge. He finds the sound bad which is no suprise. He is considering possibly replacing the cartridge or just selling the phono stage for the creek obh 8. Does anyone think it would be worthwhile or even possible to find a MC cartridge of better quality than the shure v15 IV for $75-$150 new. Or would it just be better to just get the mm phonostage.

Thanks in advance
krazeeyk
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
Wake up folks,
DL103 with Creek???
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
Not enough gain? (Don't know Creek).
krazeeyk OP
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Hi All,

Sorry for the delay. My dads turntable and Tonearm assembly is a Dual 622 direct drive. He just has the stock tone arm.

Thanks for all of the wonderful suggestions
restock
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Why not a DL103 with a Creek? Last time I checked I used the 100 Ohm setting (same as Creek) on my Trichord Dino and the gain of the Creek should be good enough as well. The Creek is not as fast and detailed as say the Dino or a Lehmann Black cube, but I guess it won't be too bad.Do you know any other MC at a $150 that can beat the DL103, even connected to a Creek?

Of course for the Dual arm I'm not really sure that the DL103 will be a good match. At that point I would maybe get the OBH 8 instead.

Rene
dougdeacon
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No way could a Dual arm handle a Denon. It might fly right off the record on the first bass drum hit. ;-)

Krazeeyk,
The concensus looks like the OBH-8 route. There's no MC cartridge < $200 that will play with a Shure V15VxMR on a Dual, so if you can stretch that far get one. It's good enough to embarass some cartridges that go for 2-3 times the price, and it should work very well on a Dual.
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