cliveb wrote: > The fact you have a selection of cartridges suggests to me that perhaps > your planned use of the turntable may be a little outside the > mainstream. What exactly is your goal here? Do you plan on selecting the > best matched cartridge for each of your LPs? That seems a little over > the top, unless your intention is to do needledrops (ie. digital > transfer of LPs). If that is the case, then being able to easily switch > cartridges to find the best match makes sense. And if that is indeed > what you are planning, then you might also want a pickup arm that allows > you to adjust VTA easily, and perhaps also fine pitch control.
Main use is transfer to FLAC. I have two rigs to do this - one in the Living Room (the Sherwood that is to be replaced), and one in my Office (the Trio) - both feed Behringer USB DAC's and I digitise using VinylStudio. My favourite cartridge by some way is the VMS20E but replacement styli are now £150 a pop in Europe so I generally save that for "special" albums. I bought the 2M Red Plug & Play only to discover that the combined weight of the cartridge and headshell is just too much for either deck so I going to get it remounted into an empty ADC headshell. I am happy to stick with 16bit/44.1Khz but recently decided to switch from 320Kbps VBR0 Mp3 to FLAC so I am re-doing the whole process. I was about 70% through my vinyl with the Mp3 conversion. In truth I do most of the digitising in the Office so the Sherwood in the Living Room isn't that important but it bugs me that it is a cheap (belt drive) Technics clone. The arm is OK though but it still won't happily take the 2M Red Plug & Play. I believe the Technics 1200/1210 does have VTA ? If the Onkyo mentioned had better reviews I'd go there. *Vortexbox LMS 7.8 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* - iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 connected Digitally - > Celestion Ditton F20s - and connected Analogue for Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 *Office* - SB3 -> Sony TA FE320 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104038
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