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Record Player - Phono Preamp cable recs….
Hello all,
So I’ve been pushing up the quality of my digital stream, and now I put some attention and love to my vinyl playback….
Current phono playback consists of: Music Hall MMF-9 and McIntosh MP 100 Preamp (Goldring Eroica lx cartridge).
I was previously using Duelund interconnects, which left me very unsatisfied especially when compared with my digital stream. I experimented with a top of the line anticable interconnect (7.3 I think), which after burn in sounds very good, though admittedly I think I prefer my Silversmith Fidelium RCA to it as it seems just a bit more magical, open, alive, wide.
So, I am now looking to upgrade the interconnect between my player and phono preamp. If I spring for a silversmith it’ll be a hair over a grand… but before I do that I was wondering what recs you all would have for a phono interconnect….
looking for super presence, jazz acoustic vocal strings horn… texture, tone…. Vivid hallucinatory presence…
suggestions?
thank you all.
R.
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You have a cartridge that my friend owned and we expected to love it, sadly neither of us liked it. I think you should go for one with superior specs for imaging, i.e. both wider channel separation and especially tight center balance, i.e. o.5db He was given it as a gift, lacked a Step Up Transformer, couldn’t play it, so I hooked it up here, broke it in around 50 hrs, it never sounded exceptional to either one of us. He bought a SUT, tried it in his system, same lack of enthusiasm. Other cartridges sound much more involving in both of our systems, they are both quite revealing. New, I was buying boron cantilevers, I got lucky with a used sapphire tube on a Sumiko Talisman S sounds terrific here and there. Shapes, I have Shibata, SAS, Microlinear, brands Sumiko, Shure, AT, Grace, and friends bring their cartridges here, I should start keeping a list. I’ve convinced myself I can hear differences, it’s easy when someone else agrees, but I know we can hear what we want to hear, I try to protect myself from that. The last few years I started taking risks on used cartridges, both MC and lately MM, and am extremely happy with vintage AT160ML, because of it’s beryllium cantilever and Microline Stylus. I bought two from this seller, found NOS in Australia (broke it like an idiot), and just bought a spare via Yahoo.Japan auctions. I have VAS check them before I play them, so far getting lucky. Oh, I almost forgot, it tracks at nominal 1.25g which is another reason I use it rather than my MC's which track at 2.0g, I loved my shure V15Vxmr that tracked at nominal 1.0g. A member here tracks his AT160ml at 1.0g, I simply stay in the middle of the range given.
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Soooo interesting.... thank you for tips on steering my attention to my cartridge... it has been suggested my current cartridge is my weakest link with my analogue, and finally... ANOTHER RABBIT HOLE TO DIVE INTO!
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It's the only one available now, I've paid less, and I would pay that if I didn't have two. discussion about these I started here
You can wear out the original beryllium cantilever/microline stylus and replace it with another used one that pops up in the future, or, new boron cantilever fits that body if one doesn't pop up or, IF you are not comfortable risking buying a used stylus, but like AT's dual magnet sound and light 1.25 tracking, you can buy a used cartridge with a broken or missing cantilever and put a new stylus in it. I like Boron if buying new, and I see they still sell 3 VMN Boron Stylii that fit these older AT150, AT155, AT160; AT440 bodies AT-VMN45xML (microlinear/nude/boron cantilever) You pay a little more for the 1st one, you get lucky with the price of a spare, it averages out, you really shouldn't wait IMO, start enjoying. ............................. Do you have the few inexpensive tools and skills (or a friend with the tools and skills) to mount and align the cartridge? |
it's random, one just popped up for auction, 19 hrs to go, $159. usd minimum bid https://yahoo.aleado.com/lot?auctionID=1201473404 It comes in a Magnesium Headshell, that is both azimuth adjustable, and overhang adjustable. estimate add ons using what I showed in the other thread. You need an account with Aleado, with verified money in it (funds from Paypal for instance) (use best Credit Card to fund Paypal) and they bid for you. Seller ships in Japan toAleado who opens/inspects/verifies the item, then they give you a few shipping options, you pick one, then last I got an invoice from Fedex for 15% tarriff and a small disbursement fee.
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