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Your favorite headshell leads
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Posted on May 4, 2011 at 23:03:04 | ||
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Location: Seattle Joined: May 4, 2011 |
What are your favorite headshell leads? I would like to try some other wires that would pair well with a Grado wood body cartridge and a vintage Thorens turntable. I purchased a backup headshell for my Thorens TD150mkII a while ago (very expensive on EBay - that is a whole other story). One of the original headshell wire clips was basically broken and would short out occasionally. I had bought the extra headshell so it could be modified to accept a new Grado Reference Platinum1 cartridge, and decided that I would get some better headshell wires to fix the short and go with the new cartridge. I bought the LP Gear SOAR HD4 headshell lead wires. These wires are thin twisted pair copper wires with fairly large black rubber or plastic coated clips. These look to me like dead ringers for Sumiko and AudioQuest headshell wires. The original wires on the Thorens head were warm and smooth sounding, but somewhat rolled off on top. Removing them meant heating the headshell pins and removing the solder to the best of my ability. After installing the new wires, my first impression was that the SOAR HD4's were very clear and articulated, but the bass was bassically MIA. I let them play for a while and the bass came back some and was tight and clear, or perhaps I just got used to it being severely reduced. Now there is a bigger difference between my digital and analog front ends in terms of strength of the bass signal. I want my bass back, but don't want to sacrifice the great treble and mids I am enjoying now. Suggestions for other headshell leads? My phono preamp is a Grado PH-1. |
RE: Your favorite headshell leads, posted on May 9, 2011 at 08:24:37 | |
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Location: Seattle Joined: May 4, 2011 |
Thanks, I may give the Ortofon's a try too. |