Btw, the Technics came from 1981, that are more than 25 years.
R.
Dear @terry9 @fleschler : All those vintage SUT's I named and own/owned along the Technics that owns @enginedr1960 came from the early 80's and by coincidence all but the Technics had same price 150K Yens in those old times. Technics had lower price due that Technics was/is a company from the world biggest electronic builder Matushita with all kind of resources that even Denon or AT just has not and can't market its products at lower prices. http://20cheaddatebase.web.fc2.com/needie/NDdenon/AU-1000.html Noted those 12kg in the Denon unit weigth? This is today Audio Technica SUT ( 5kg. that's heavy for today other SUT " standard " about. ): https://www.audio-technica.com/cms/accessories/1211e0cd29d5d0aa/index.html a straigth SUT with no switches, that always is the best kind design. Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS, R. |
Dear @terry9 @fleschler and friends: That Audio Technica AT-SUT|1000 new top model says a lot for every audiophile and especially in the analog side: In this thread ( and other threads through the time. ) I supported and posted that those vintage Japanese SUT's coming from Denon, Audio Technica and Technics are really even today second to none and contrary to today very expensive SUT manufacturers as Lundahl or Ypsilon and others the first hand knowledge levels coming inside those Japanese SUT's are way superior to the knowledge levels of today top SUT builders ( of course this is only my take. ) Audio Technica, Denon and Technics all them were/are designers and manufacturers of: cartridges, tonearms, TTs and even electronics/speakers. Been and be cartridge designers all of them ( including Ortofon. ) knows perfectly not only how works a cartridge but its needs and that latest Audio Technica SUT is a clear example of that when it comes with input/output balanced design: "" The transformer maintains a balanced signal from the moving-coil cartridge through to the phono preamp..."" and I don't see there silver wire transformer windings. Anyway, that AT SUT can be a must to liosten it. R. |
With a Moving Coil Phono cartridge, you should use an
external Moving Coil (MC) step-up transformer into a Moving Magnet (MM) phono
preamp or MM inputs, versus using a self-contained phono preamp that has both
MM and MC inputs.
Adding an additional set of interconnects to use a stand-alone step up transformer instead of using internal circuitry inside a phono preamp does add some additional lengths of wire as well as connectors, however, the active stage or internal step up transformers are connected by wires or printed circuits inside the phono preamp. Perhaps one could also say that a console stereo or integrated receiver is better than separate components since no interconnects are required. That is true if you could choose which components are hard wired inside the console. The bottom line is that you will get better result by matching a Moving Coil Phono Cartridge using a Step-up transformer with the correct ratio, than by using the Moving Coil section of a Phono Preamplifier. |