@oddiofyl - yes the Riverstone gauge was another great purchase!
Best bang for the buck
What’s been the most cost effective item you purchased for your system?
I will go first- a Zerostat I bought 40 years ago. Next most cost effective purchase has to be a Denon DL103R cartridge which I bought new for $300.
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VPI HW-16 record cleaning machine when they first came out. Serial Number 15. I put the .5 upgrade package on it when it first came out also. Had this unit for well over 40 years now. Has cleaned thousands and thousands of records. Still going strong. Never any problems. Needless to say...paid for itself many times over... |
@mofimadness definitely got your money’s worth. I also have a VPI machine- they are sturdy |
Bought a used Heybrook TT2 table in 1985 with a Linn Basik tonearm. Upgraded. to an Alphason HRS-100 tonearm 10 years later for another 500$ (new) when analog was declining . Sold the table and tonearm separately last year for more than 1500$. Got my money back and more while enjoying a great turntable for 40 years. The lesson I learned over the years are 1) buy used if you can and 2) buy quality brand products in the first place that can resell fairly well. |
I picked up a used Denafrips Hestia preamp for $600 a few days ago. It has toned down my system's occasionally bright side of neutral character and shifted it toward a warm-leaning neutral presentation, without compromising detail, resolution, or dynamics. So far, it has been the best bang-for-the-buck upgrade in my system. |
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