Blue Shadow
Waiting for Vintage Gear from this century
, well duh. Sorry. Here we go again, making another one of Glenn's threads an Epic Thread.I've been listening to more vinyl lately, and put the Denon DL103 MC on it. I was quite amazed at the improvement over the Ortofon 2M red I had been using.
As you go up stuff keeps sounding better and better. I've been lucky to trip over a few very nice cartridges and with our audio group had a number more heard at their place or here. As will all this stuff, diminishing returns and that seems to be at or into the 4 figure territory. Couple things I have read about this (and whoever hates hearsay, tough), those expensive cartridges can be retipped for well less than a replacement/exchange from the manufacturer but this means it may sound a bit different from the new model and as you go up in the lines someone believes the cartridges start to sound similar from different manufacturers. I don't know about this one.The Denon brings out so much more detail, more clarity and depth, fuller bass, quite amazing. The table and cart combination is very good in my system.
The problem now is I'm looking at some higher priced carts like the Sumiko Blue Point Special EVO III, and Sumiko Blue Point 2. Are these really that much better to justify their cost, or will the improvements be minimal at best?
Glenn
One thing about these cartridges, they have a following and those that use them can usually describe their sound to you. If you have a question about a specific cartridge, a thread on it will get responses from those that have or have had experience with it and they can tell you how they sounded to them.
You have that nice MC designed moving coil unit, put it to good use. Folks that jonz for it put high dollar cartridges through it.
Oh, I have an SL-1600 Mk II that works just fine so I can play in this sandbox, too.