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I've ordered an Audio-Technica AT95E cartridge/stylus, and as an upgrade(?) to the original Music Hall "Tracker".
Pros? Cons?
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Hi, monoplinth,
I've had a mmf-2.1 for many years and upgraded the cartridge and the platter mat. Made a big improvement from the stock Tracker and the felt mat. That turntable, despite it's humble stature, can sound pretty good with a fairly decent cartridge. If you can, try to get yourself a Herbie's Way Excellent platter mat. They're a little more expensive than they used to be but are still a good value. The mat is especially effective when used with metal platters. If you do a search here on the VA you'll find all sorts of recommendations and an idea of the improvements you'll hear.
Enjoy that new cartridge.
Regards,
Tom
Thank you, Tom, for the mat recommendation. I've looked at a few, including those made of leather. That is the next upgrade I had had in mind. I've also toyed with the idea of installing rubber washers on each side of the holes of the motor's flange, then inserting longer screws, but not screwed in snugly, and where the packing screws had been. However I'm not sure that that would enable me to eliminate that "novel" rubber band suspending the motor in mid-air.
Cheers,
Alan
Definitely better than the Tracker.
Opus 33 1/3
Thanks! Since ordering, I've read of only good things about the AT95E, including giving units costing twice as much or more a run for their money. I'm really looking forward to it, and thank you for the breaking-in estimate. In that event, I may need to find a clean LP and play it in its entirety fifty times, with the audio off, and before I begin to convert some selections to '.mp3' format. Not that I'd prefer them converted, but to preserve them. The image attached is of an introductory set, the original of which I had repeatedly checked out of a library as a teen. Within, in my opinion, are at least two definitive interpretations of the master's art, surprisingly perhaps.
Cheers,
Alan
Memory is cheap nowadays, you can always converted to MP3 for your playback device. But you should definitely have a lossless master copy. I prefer 24-bit 96 kHz using Aiff format, but any lossless format should be significantly better than a lossy MP3 format. I play back my ripped records using Audirvana via the iTunes library through either the dragonfly version 1.2 or my on board d to a processor on my Parasound pre. like I said, if your playback device has limited memory then just convert to MP3 just for your playback device retaining the high-resolution recording for future playback device iterations.
You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump -- W.C. Fields
I was wondering how to best preserve the sound quality of the vinyl. Thank you! My player is my computer, mainly, and with 8GB of memory and a 1TB HDD.
Whilst a picture is worth a thousand words, music, intangible, is worth a thousand pictures, ad infinitum.
made a big difference. I went a bit higher with the cart, settling on a Grado Prestidge Red, which at the time was $110, IIRC. It is $140-160 now.
The tweaks didn't bring the 2 up to a 5, but close. My next two tables were the MMF-5 and finally the MMF-7, which I sold about 12 years ago.
Opus 33 1/3
I had the mmf-5.0, with its bottle-green glass platter. Sadly, it was destroyed in a fire in 2005, ten years ago this very month as a matter of fact. I miss it, of course. When I decided to replace it after we built our new home, Music Direct had the mmf-2.1le on closeout. I couldn't resist.
I never got to use the 5.0 much at all, so I'll never really know what I missed, save its aesthetics.
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