I would say abandon the Dual or sell and start fresh, the Dual was ok back then but your 1200.00 could be spent much wiser, look in the used market and get as much table as you can maybe a Project with their 9 arm with cart and match to a phone stage with some flexibility for the upgrade path later, this will give you an idea of how good things can get and might excite you enough to really go hog wild so know this could cause a fever.
Vintage Dual 1228 Turntable : worth to upgrade cartridge ?
I have from my college days (1977) Dual 1228 with original fitted Shure M95ED cartridge . It is maintained well , not used for about 20 years in between , but just cleaned , lubricated , resoldered some loose connections , etc and just runs great for me.
I am not too much into analogue , so not planning to do big time investment into new TT , Phono preamp , but if can get larger benefit by replacing the Shure M 95 ED with some new cart upto $ 200-300 , I would like to do it .
My Phono preamp is very low end Cambridge Audio MM 551P . To go with new upgraded cartridge , I may even consider to buy used Phono with budget of $1000 .
I would appreciate advice form FMs here , where I should spend my money to get most benifit on sound improvement . New cart , new phono ?
I am not too much into analogue , so not planning to do big time investment into new TT , Phono preamp , but if can get larger benefit by replacing the Shure M 95 ED with some new cart upto $ 200-300 , I would like to do it .
My Phono preamp is very low end Cambridge Audio MM 551P . To go with new upgraded cartridge , I may even consider to buy used Phono with budget of $1000 .
I would appreciate advice form FMs here , where I should spend my money to get most benifit on sound improvement . New cart , new phono ?