Originally Posted by
twotone
Just received my new (to me) Denon 103 with isokinetic weight stuck to it, cart and weight and fixings are about 13g and along with my headshell (MS HA-202) the combined weight is about 23.5g.
I've mounted it on my MS MA-202 arm and used the supplementary weight for the back of the tonearm to balance out the cart and first impressions are very very good, I'm listening to a stereo version of Kind Of Blue through the MC module of my Quad 34 pre-amp.
Sound is quite old fashioned but in a good way, quite dark, I think, like being in a nightclub, losts of low notes kind off heavy sounding I think but not horrible or anything like it just different sounding from my Reson MM cart.
Bass is full and piano is pretty good to, think I like this cart with jazz.
Should I add more weight to the headshell guys, I've a 3g technics weight that I could use and that will get the arm up at the cart end slightly too?
Surface noise is almost non-existant on this record which is an old 1964 CBS pressing but I know it well.
I'm tracking at 2.5g with the anti skate the same, dead easy to set this up on the MS arm BTW.
Toe tapping stuff this cart.
Tony