Mr Thorens

Awesome.

have you looked into Clipsal 56P310.

I've heard the Red v the Quintet Bronze. Tonally similar but the Cadenza had better micro dynamics, scale and insight. The Q Bronze was also very good but the C Red stepped everything up a bit and was more resolved and had more bite.

Thanks Owen. I’m going to try something similar. Just need to find a local steel supplier to do it.

I’d be very interested as to the source of the heavy base plate and how you did it.

How much for the cadenza bronze?

Thebrega carts don't have a replaceable stylus. However the arms do have two internal solder joints and this is suboptimal. After all it's a budget arm.

Hmm my RB301, RB303 and RB251 also had the same poor wiring regime.

Interestingly Rega didn't implement the straight through wiring in the RB250 and 300. There are two solder joints. One from the headshell wires into the internal arm wire. And another from the internal arm wire into the small circular base PCB into which the RCA cable is soldered. This is poor design and part of the reason many Rega rewires sound so much better as well as replacing the flimsy low grade internal wiring with litz

You mean this? It’s a bargain.

Some Ortofon dealers have the full range to try out one by one on an Ortofon TT (I think it's a rebadged higher end Project). Challenge HiFi in Adelaide did that with me and I could then hear that the Q Bronze>2M black>2M Bronze>>Quintet Blue.

Sure did. I still like my Ortofon Bronze too, different sound. One day I would like to upgrade further.

Very interesting YouTube channel. Maybe I'm biased, but do the Ortofons seem to sound the most natural and detailed - except for the AT OC9

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