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In Reply to: What Cartridge - Budget of $1500 posted by MarkS on December 15, 2005 at 16:59:29:
Has your Pas been restored/updated/modded?If not, you will never even hear what a $1500 cart has to offer using your existing preamp.
I agree with the others that suggest a budget MC and spend the rest on either a better pre or buy a bunch of music with the diffence. Both the AT OC9 of the Denon DL-103 are going to be a good match with the rather soft sound of the Dyna.
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to play it through a PAS-3 does not make any sense.The maximum enjoyment level could be had with buying lots of new music and getting an MC or even a high quality MM with a full bodied sound and a little extra brilliance on top. I would toss in the name Goldring into the mix along with Denon and AT for sure.
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i agree with the above posts, and while the Pas3 is a classic, you wont be getting the benefits of a high end cartridge. get a juicy music blueberry with the LOMC option... then you'll have a killer pre with two killer phono stages! just another opinion.
redneck
Thanks for all who replied.My PAS3 has been updated with prime parts and stuff. Yes, I understand that the pre-amp will be the bottle neck of the system. That is the main reason why I do not intend to get top of the line models of a particular brand. I understand that these top of the line carts will not be able to spread its wings with a PAS3, despite it being updated.
What I want to at least achieve is a particular sound. Since different brands of carts have their respective "House Sound", I guess getting a middle of the range model from a particular brand will still be able to exhibit that "Family Sound". Yes, it won't get the refinement of the top of the line models, but it will still have a similar "Family Sound".
I guess, I could rephrase my earlier question to:
What brand of cart has a "House Sound" of being weighty in the mid to mid bass, and enough detail / high end extension to compensate for my vintage sounding PAS3?
I have had personal experience with the 1042 and 1012. I believe they both had Gyger stylii. They had a ballsy clean sound with an excellent bandwidth, perhaps a tad top heavy, but not overly so.
They had a better developed less dramatic midrange than the lower priced Grado Wood body Platinum, IMHO. MC cartridges in the same price range do not track as well and are generally more colored than these MM's. The Goldrings also track like Shures.
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