cartridge for Magnepan Unitrac

Posted by saxman73 (P) on July 6, 2012 at 14:18:28

Hi,

I recently bought a Magnepan Unitrac. It's mounted on a Thorens TD 150 and sounds good. It replaced and bettered a Linn Basik Plus. It tracks very well certain things that the Linn could not. I am using a Shure V15-III with Jico stylus. My amp is a modified Fisher X-100-3 and I have Rogers JR149 speakers.

I have been fiddling with the VTF and VTA. Currently, I have VTF at 1.15 and VTA at around 13.5 (as on the gauge on the tonearm) for the average record. While I am overall happy with the sound, I find myself adjusting the VTA quite a bit from record to record and find that on certain records, the sound is a hair bright/cold (although changing the 12ax7 tubes in the phono stage on the Fisher also changes things quite a bit. I currently have Mazda silver plates 12ax7, but everything seems to be a trade-off with swapping tubes)).

It could be that the system is simply reflecting what's on the record and I should just stop fiddling and enjoy the music, but I am thinking about trying a different cartridge. My phono stage is MM only. I see that some on this forum really like the ADC XLM Mark II (not sure if it's the improved model or not), also the Ortofon 2m Black (out of my price range, I am afraid).

Do you think the ADC XLM Mark II would better the Shure V15-III? Any other recommendations?

Thanks!

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Topic - cartridge for Magnepan Unitrac - saxman73 14:18:28 07/06/12 (11)

RE: cartridge for Magnepan Unitrac - neobop 23:57:26 07/13/12 (0)

RE: cartridge for Magnepan Unitrac - kff 10:25:31 07/08/12 (0)

RE: cartridge for Magnepan Unitrac - Rpower 08:25:33 07/07/12 (1)

I'm sure a Unitrac sounds sensational on an LP12 .... - andyr 00:43:02 07/08/12 (0)

IMO... - EdAInWestOC 18:05:00 07/06/12 (6)

Kinda disagree. - Opus 104 02:01:53 07/07/12 (5)

i love my ADC XLM MKIII - centaurus3200 08:39:51 07/10/12 (0)

Its hard to compare them... - EdAInWestOC 19:14:59 07/07/12 (3)

Nope. Jico does have styli for the XLMs, but not SAS. I do - Opus 104 03:32:52 07/08/12 (2)

I figured that the SAS changed the playing field... - EdAInWestOC 04:43:27 07/08/12 (1)

Yes, the ADC is the winner over both the IV and the Ultra even with SAS styli. - Opus 104 08:51:25 07/08/12 (0)

cartridge for Magnepan Unitrac

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