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Hold on.

Posted by Stale (A) on September 11, 2006 at 10:40:46

In Reply to: No seriously, why does my Rega SUCK? posted by Sylvian on September 10, 2006 at 12:36:54:

Based on your posts, I am getting more and more confused:

"(whereas the Rega, its just higher resolution in general". Holly crap, if RB250 is better in resolution than your other setups that how bad are your other setups. RB250 is not resolution arm, even less on P2, it is more of a musical type arm?!?

You also say that Rega is more authoritative, quicker, more bass, more spacious, ... but than you do not like timbre and say it is not musical? Maybe it is just cartridge tonal balance that you do not like. (Although I do not understand how something be "higher resolution in timbre". Timbre in my opinion does not posses resolution.)

(Hey, if stock RB-250 sounds that way to you, than you would be floored by RB300 or modded RB250, but that is another story)

"and more like a CD than a good analog" - what do you mean like CD, I have yet to hear Rega that sounds like typical CD. Even their CDs don't sound like typicall CD.

P2 with glass platter is better version, so good so far. But that tells me that you got it used. So is everything OK, from the arm, bearings, spindle and spindle ball bearing, belt, motor, wiring?

Did you get new or used cartridge? If used it may be shot, if new it takes time to settle. (BTW, this is my favorite, being cheap on table and spending on cartridge, and now you do not want to spend on commercial tweaks. Don't assume that you actually hear $3-400 cartridge on $4-500 table. That you spent $300 more on table and $300 less on the cartridge you would be better off.)

From your posts it seems that you did not use that same cartridge on all the tables in the comparison? Is that true? If it is, what did you realy compare?

For VTA, it is hard to say visually that you are 1 mm off, arm being parallel is not an indicator alone, and with tapered arm like Rega is even harder (close to impossible) to judge. You may be +/- few mm.

Since line contact styli are ridiculously sensitive to VTA, 1 mm is enough to change character a lot.

You do not have to like P2, there is lot of better tables, and there is quite a bit of trade off in that price range, and table itself is very basic and in line with the price range, each table/arm in that price range has its own sound, maybe you just others suit your taste, but based on your statements that something is waaaay off.

(Or your definition of musicality is much different than mine).

Btw, I do not own Rega any more, but my Planar 2 was one table that stayed in my posesion over 20 years, other came and went.

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