Turntable advice / opinion on setup / sound.
Hello all you analog experts. I am seeking some advice, opinions and direction to try, based on my tastes and setup.
I’m not loving my current TT sound but there are variables that could cause this. For reference, my favorite TT I ever owned was the ClearAudio Champion Level 2 (wish I never sold it) because it was warm and had a huge stage.
- I listen to every style of music, smooth jazz to hard metal.
- I have to turn the volume way up to get the get the level I like which at times has hiss and a tiny bit of hum. Compared to digital sources which have none of these issues.
- I find this setup to lack huge stage and warmth.
My current system is:
- Rega Planar 8 w/ Alpheta 2 MC cart.
- Cambridge Audio -> Alva Duo Phono Pre amp
- Mark Levinson -> No 585 Amp.
- Martin Logan 15a Renaissance -> 8FT apart/ 3ft off the front wall and 3 FT from each side wall. I sit 9FT away from the speakers.
The turntables I am considering are:
1) Musical Fidelity -> M8XTT
What cart would you use?
2) Michell Audio -> Gyro SE Turntable
3) Clear Audio Champion Level 2
Thank you all in advance for any guidance and opinions you can offer.
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Indeed, from the link to Rega’s spacer, they say
That supports my view that small adjustments to VTA (as a surrogate for Stylus Rake Angle) make little sense when the horizontal equivalent has far bigger errors for conventional pivoting tonearms. Linn would surely agree on rigidity. You can have both rigidity and dynamically adjustable VTA and zero HTA error and zero skating forces if you buy a Holbo air-bearing turntable Reviews - holbo, which is significantly less expensive that the first two new tables being considered by the OP. Then if one really wanted to, one could experiment with different VTAs and possibly one could introduce side (skating?) forces on the fly by adjusting the tilt of the arm bearing the tonearm floats on, just to see and hear what happens
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I believe you are misunderstanding what Roy Gandy's design philosophy is. lewm is right. There is a lot of technical information available. I don't want to get it wrong. Roy's priority is rigidity. So Rega builds their products to address that priority. Other parameters are also addressed by other means. But as Elliott has discussed and disparaged those other means involve sacrifice in versatility and adaptability. Rega can control what they themselves manufacture. That is a limitation of their approach when the end user decides to adapt a different manufacturer's cartridge to their turntables. |
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