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A Thought Exercise: Consolidating Analog To One Table and Two Cartridges
Primary Control Kinea. End game. I will be bringing one in later this year to demo.... STST meanwhile a stone cold bargain. But these are new not used per se.  
MC for Low Mass Tonearm
OP question is, I believe, in response to JCarr’s comment on his other thread. How many cart designers will steer you away from their product ;) ? AnaMighty / Sculpture A may have something tasty, in the budget range, worth an ask. I have two ca... 
Lyra and OMA
@michaellent I know you want to know why. Its a big topic. Lets just say that in this case many decades of experience are speaking :)   ...  
Second MC Cartridge Choice.....Tokyo
Etsuro are available. Just helped dial in a Bordeaux last week.   
Lyra and OMA
Tonearm has a lot to do do with how much you get out of your cart...  
Lyra and OMA
There are calculators and there is experience. Maybe JCarr knows a little ;)  
Lyra and OMA
According to OMA website it is 1:10. From a gain perspective probably OK with Kleos 0.5mV, although would be curious about the Aric 6sn7 gain. Might the Kleos sound better in this system with  lower ( numerically ) load? Maybe. Could require some ... 
Second MC Cartridge Choice.....Tokyo
Phasemation perhaps  
Lyra and OMA
Care to elaborate on arm and phono? Might get more details that way    
Kumza Stabi S or Rega P10 ??
J.R Boisclair at Wally Tools offers it. You send in your cart and they determine deviations for sra/zenith/azimuth for your cart and make a shim with corrective angles that mounts between cart and arm.    For many full adjustable arms this might... 
Kumza Stabi S or Rega P10 ??
One point I agree with @mijostyn in that I wouldn’t even think of using a Rega with a high end MC without the wally analysis and resulting shim set.   Anyone who has setup a cart and dialed in by ear knows that the extremely rough ’ shim under a... 
Kumza Stabi S or Rega P10 ??
If ~ $6k tables aren't too far out of line may I also throw the STST Motus DQ as another to investigate? Since I have an interest will just leave it at that :)  
Pioneer PL630- upgrading the phono cable?
@cleeds many MM want some cap while MC don't. So my experience is somewhat reversed. @musicearlyadopter so your cart is a high output and not electrically similar to the Umami you reference? If so the reference was a distraction from the topic at... 
Shipping a turntable with plinth from England to USA
75lbs for one parcel puts you in special territory. Ime UPS will thrash it. Hard. Like better be in a plywood crate. DHL might be better. Or not. If he can pack for a war then OK. If not split into three  
Pioneer PL630- upgrading the phono cable?
an upgraded Audio Quest 404B (essentially a Hana Umami Red) Moving Coil cartridge.   What does this mean? Is it lower output / impedance now?