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In Reply to: Help me improve turntable set-up please. posted by coronadope on December 23, 2017 at 11:50:40:
...if you really want to hear some difference for your $500. Just my 2-cents. Sell the 200-hour DL-103 for $150, say, and that gives you the $650 for a Goldring 1042 MM cart with a Gyger "S" stylus. I have auditioned this cart carefully and would consider it to replace my Dynavetor XX, when the time comes. It's superb- gentle and subtle with quiet stuff and passionate and dynamic with big stuff. MM's make like easy. There are other interesting MM's out there- someone mentioned Clearaudio- also very nice, well-balanced sound IME.I have nearly "lifelong" experience with the DL-103 family and they are competent yeoman of the cartridge world but there is much room for improvement. I moved on ...and sold an NOS DL-303 recently; too "audiophil-ey"- light and sorta shrill (I know- I admit that I lacked the endurance to break it in 100's of hours because it sounded too bad to wait on.) No mas.
If you stick with a Denon, try adding the loading resistors right inside the headshell -- tiny 1/10w metal film jobbers, soldered very carefully, with a big magnifying glass, across the terminals of the cart leads. I feel that was an audible improvement - it may be all theory, but I feel it improves the electromechanical damping, when you consider the "equivalent circuit" of the cart mass-spring, generator, cable impedance, etc. Costs zilch anyway.
I think more sophisticated cables and modifying your table to eliminate those handy RCA jacks would be a lot of money for an infinitesimal gain. Follow Duster's recc's in any case.
Buy a few different platter mats and experiment. I found there was quite an audible difference on a number of vintage Denon DD models. I ended up preferring the sticky sorbothane "Platter Matter" type. Every goofy material is out there- I am forced to assume that hand-graded Swiss-tanned virgin moose-hide and the like are a kind of New Extra-Strength Placebo.
Last, and least, as a mechanical engineer I cannot condone adding heavy weights to a TT platter. Some weighs appear they might double the load on the bearing. It wasn't optimized to function that way. I have always used a lightweight plastic screw-chuck clamp. Its system dependent and relates to the mat you use, so experiment.
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