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Finished my TD150 MkII last night. Plinth is Huon Pine. The armboard is the original one which is French Oak. I was going to install a Grace 707 arm but the Kugel arm sounded so good, I kept it. Here are before and after pics.

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4 minutes ago, oztayls said:

Finished my TD150 MkII last night. Plinth is Huon Pine. The armboard is the original one which is French Oak. I was going to install a Grace 707 arm but the Kugel arm sounded so good, I kept it. Here are before and after pics.

 

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Very noice!  :thumb:

 

Love the Huon pine plinth, Oz - 1" thick ... should sound really really good.  :)

 

Andy

 

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Just waiting on the new acrylic lid and the lid. Forum member, Douglas HiFi, have sent me a newly minted Ortofon Super OM, so can’t wait to hear that when it arrives. At the moment I have an OM 20 installed and it sounds fantastic. A few minor mods, mainly damping, and a new damped base plate keep it quiet where it counts. 

The springs are still settling, so tomorrow I have to readjust the suspension a bit.

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4 hours ago, Souwalker said:

 


Let us know how this go. I went to a shop yesterday looking to upgrade my Project DC with acrylic platter and 2M Blue to a Rega P3 and the TT techie recommended the Otello.

I listened to 2 higher end Soundsmith and I was not totally impressed even on their spaceship looking TT.

They had no Otella setup with P3 and I’m concerned...concerned forking out $750 and regret.

Option is P3 with 2M Bronze but the techie tells me he and colleagues listened and concluded that otella is even better then 2M black emoji51.png

I need to take all of this with a grain of salt without actually demoing an otella .
 

 

The Otello is their least expensive cartridge.

In my system it is working out quite well.

 

I think for me it was important that it be properly set up and tested for a while before calling it done.

Im very happy with it.

 

Thanks

Newport Jazz 

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The Otello is their least expensive cartridge.
In my system it is working out quite well.
 
I think for me it was important that it be properly set up and tested for a while before calling it done.
Im very happy with it.
 
Thanks
Newport Jazz 


You tested for awhile before calling it done meaning you had a trial
Period?

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3 hours ago, Souwalker said:

 


You tested for awhile before calling it done meaning you had a trial
Period?
 

 

Just a couple of hours.

 

The person that does the install is very important.

 

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15 hours ago, Souwalker said:

 


Is that the $20k cartridge? If so I was at a shop and the techie Played my record on oneemoji51.png

 

Well under that price unless you order it with an expensive SoundSmith energiser/preamp. I've used a number of SoundSmith cartridges, they are all voices similarly: neutral and dynamic, really only differing in detail retrieval as you move higher up the range. Mind you, these differences are substantial by the time you arrive at the Strain Gauge

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Just a couple of hours.
 
The person that does the install is very important.
 


The TT specialist at Sydney HiFi Castle hill seems very knowledgeable and very confident at what he does. He told me he’ll set it all up on the P3 and will let me exchange after a week if I was not happy with the Otello.
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13 hours ago, proftournesol said:

Well under that price unless you order it with an expensive SoundSmith energiser/preamp. I've used a number of SoundSmith cartridges, they are all voices similarly: neutral and dynamic, really only differing in detail retrieval as you move higher up the range. Mind you, these differences are substantial by the time you arrive at the Strain Gauge

No. It is the least expensive one that they hand make. One reason i bought it is that they will rebuild for only 20% of the cost of the cartridge.

 

So far im enjoying it quite a bit.

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On 12/06/2019 at 8:57 AM, Souwalker said:

 


Yeah I think that was it. There was a dedicated energizer/pre amp

 

There are various levels of energiser, the cartridges are all the same, although available with various stylus profiles. Mine has come with a basic energiser with on/off and mute functions, the most expensive option includes a full function preamp with multiple inputs, volume adjustment etc.

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Just a Linn Sondek LP12 with an Ekos1 arm. But it’s been mine since 1989!

 

Along the way it had a Cirkus Kit Transplant and a Trampolin 2 added, but the motor is still going strong!

 

It’s been adorned with a Linn Troika and a Dynavector XXMk2 over the years and a WSS Kabel Platin Line (Silver)Tonearm cable.

 

Two new adornments have just been installed- a Lenehan Audio Foilflex/ Spiroground tonearm cable and a Kiseki cartridge.

 

My ears have been burning in for about 35 hrs and my brain is now processing a sense of joy! [emoji2]

 

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Been a while since I displayed my turntable here. The last time I did, Vince Hamilton was still producing them.

 

I think this is a fairly nice picture.

 

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The turntable itself is a Once Analog Mk 2 turntable, taken up to the highest specification a little while before Vince Hamilton, on the NSW south coast, stopped producing his phenomenal-sounding turntables. 

 

The arm is an Audio Origami PU7 arm from the legendary Johnny Nilsen in Glasgow, Scotland.

 

The cartridge is a Lyra Kleos medium-low output (0.5mV) moving coil, designed by Jonathan Carr and crafted by Yoshinori Mishima.

 

The platter mat is a Herbie's Way Excellent II mat (not visible).


I also use a TTWeights TTMega 1.2 Kg peripheral ring weight and Once Analog 1.4 Kg "Nugget" centre weight with every record. TTWeights no longer exists. Functionally similar ring weights are available from Sound Foundations in India and Waynes Audio in the USA.

 

The three turntable cone feet sit on Herbie's Cone/Spike Puckies which make an instant improvement in isolation.

 

Almost invisible is a Synergistic Research Black Widow PHT which sits permanently above my cartridge. I don't know what it does (some sort of EMF management I would guess), but when I take it off, the instruments are no longer as precisely positioned!

 

On August 18, it can be heard, along with the rest of my system, at the Sydney Audio Club in Epping.

 

In a few days, I will be getting a package of the latest AntiCables interconnects, speaker wires and power cords, which I have bought, but the package might include a loaner AntiCables top-of-line silver-gold alloy phono interconnect Level 6.2, for me to trial and use at the SAC meeting in place of the (excellent) Cardas phono interconnect which came with the Audio Origami PU7.

 

I have an outstanding built-in MC/MM phono stage in my Doge 8 (Clarity 2019 Edition) tube preamp, which trumps most stand-alone phono preamps by a considerable margin.

But my own stand-alone phono preamp, an EEAudio MiniMax Tube Phono Preamp massively re-engineered by Joe Rasmussen of Custom Analogue Audio, is by far my preferred preamp, better than almost any other I've ever heard at any price!

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Set up a revised  TT only system using the Modified Linn and Pioneer PLX 1000+Ortofon 2M Black...

Must admit the 2M Black into the Rotel 1412 phono stage sounds pretty darn good.....

.....The Linn sounds fab too....as it should...

 

Tase.

 

 

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32 minutes ago, Tasebass said:

Set up a revised  TT only system using the Modified Linn and Pioneer PLX 1000+Ortofon 2M Black...

Must admit the 2M Black into the Rotel 1412 phono stage sounds pretty darn good.....

.....The Linn sounds fab too....as it should...

 

Tase.

 

 

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How do you rate your Pio rig?

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11 minutes ago, joz said:

How do you rate your Pio rig?

into the Rotel and for the money.......75%-80% of the Linns performance for a fraction of the cost....The Linn pulls away in detail and dynamics...

Infact some pressings sound just as good....go figure...

The Pioneers let down is the arm but once you get that sorted its a great match with the 2M series IMO...especially the Black... 

 

Tase

 

 

Those little Royd's can sound HUGE via the Linn TT....

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9 minutes ago, joz said:

Hmmm toying with the idea of a Pio with the 2M Black.

What issue with the arm?

Arm Bearings.

Not set up properly on some ....like mine...

"0" Bladed flat screwdriver and some patience will get you sorted though...

 

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Don't think I've properly shown my turntable in this thread yet.... :unsure:

 

Audio Verismo AV1 Turntable with a Rockport Linear Tracking Tonearm and cart is a My Sonic Lab Ultra Eminent EX.

 

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Hi,

here is my Linn  - it has a few modifications listed below:

 

Plinth / circus / new motor - 2017 vintage

Vinyl Passion Unity One subchassis / armboard / brace / top plate

SRM tech LP Upgrade kit including acrylic baseboard

Mounted on RDC cones / soundeck constrained layer damping plates

Origin Live Conqueror Mk2

Audio Technica ART 9 MC cartridge

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1 hour ago, Martykt said:

Don't think I've properly shown my turntable in this thread yet.... :unsure:

 

Audio Verismo AV1 Turntable with a Rockport Linear Tracking Tonearm and cart is a My Sonic Lab Ultra Eminent EX.

 

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Very cool, Marty!  :thumb:

Andy

 

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