Posted by Russellc [ 65.64.103.205 ] on December 12, 2004 at 12:20:48:
In Reply to: Re: Delrin arm board for AR turntable posted by manualblock on December 12, 2004 at 09:09:19:
Right now, I have the ortofon OM 30 on there. I went to the Jacks music site, (where the shure V15 whatever the latest version is has been available for 199.99) but their site showed SOLD OUT, with a note that shure was discontinuing that cartridge as well as the stylus! Oh well, I thought that was the direction I was going. For now, I can't get over how much better this cart sounds with this arm/board combo. I like the look of the arm and figured it wouldn't sound any worse than the stock one... turned out to best the old combo by a considerable margin. A nice surprise! The funny thing is, back in the day (circa 1975-6) I can remeber seeing the black widow in my local dealers shop and thinking how exotic it looked, but cost more than my whole analog rig at the time, about 250.00 Now I want to find something nice cart wise, surprisingly this arm seems be able to handle nicer than I anticipated. Over the years I have had people suggest I might be surprised by its performance. I should have done this long ago, but until recently had no board to fit its SME style mount. The same place we were discussing having good prices on rega also has some good prices on the goldring 1042, as well as their high output moving coil "Eorica" or something like that. I just want to make sure that I am making a substantial step up than what I already have. Clear audio has a couple, one about 200 one about 400, maybe I'll look to see if the OC9 is compatible? I believe I'll need a setup transformer for it.
The search is on,
Russellc
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