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RE: Vinyl forum

Posted by AbeCollins (A) on November 26, 2014 at 14:26:05

In Reply to: RE: Vinyl forum posted by genungo on November 26, 2014 at 11:19:02:

Wow! Very astute analysis of this forum.

I came on board the Vinyl Asylum about 10 years ago asking a bunch of questions on what to buy in order to play my old collection of records from the 1970's. I didn't want to jump into a mega buck exotic turntable that looked like it landed from outer space or pay for a cartridge that costs more than my wife's diamond ring.

I purchased a modestly priced new Technics SL-1200mkII (and later, a KAB modified SL-1200mkII which I still own). My cartridge was the Audio Technica AT-120e, then the Denon DL-160, DL-103R, Dyna DV-20XH, Dyna 17D3, Benz Glider SL. Of course some 'golden ears' insisted that it wasn't worth putting decent cartridges on my "DJ Table" even though I could clearly hear the differences.

I also tried a couple different tone arms fitted to the SL-1200mkII, numerous tube and SS phono preamps, a couple Step Up Transformers, a Clearaudio table, a SOTA table, more cartridges, various alignment tools, etc.... All the while going back to the SL-1200mkII and being told that it was a crap table not worthy of being discussed in the same company as those pricey audiophile brands.

Oh well, I had lots of fun with the SL-1200mkII. I still have two of them. One that is brand new fully stock in MINT condition, and my KAB modified SL-1200mkII. I'll fire it up again someday.

But in the mean time, I've been hanging out over at the Computer Audio Asylum running into another crowd of audiophiles with some equally bizarre ideas of what is suitable for digital playback and what is not worthy. Same game, different technology. ;-)

Edits: 11/26/14

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