Running a denon dl103 with paratrace tip. This sounds really good but wondering what you get if you go up in price to one thousand, two thousand and ultra levels?
Thanks! Tim
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I'm Tim.
Running a denon dl103 with paratrace tip. This sounds really good but wondering what you get if you go up in price to one thousand, two thousand and ultra levels?
Thanks! Tim
Small gains are to be had with some large price changes in my opinion.
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I think it depends what you have further downstream..
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I'm Tim.
I have high end kit. Focal scala utopias etc. So thanks for the opinions. What have you actually run / compared ?
Well I've got a couple of ZYX R100's and I won't be spending more.
Spooky ! Been meaning to ask the same question to see what folks think.
Some high end carts are a heck of a lot of money no matter how you look at it and in my experince as you go up there are improvements but after a ceetain point they are small but welcome.
I loved the 2M Black at around £460 and gradually moved up to it's bigger brother the Cadenza Black, now pushing £1850 plus.
Do I feel you get £1400 worth of improvement with the Cadenza over the 2MB (to put it in that very simplistic manner)
Err, to be honest £1400 is a BIG difference / a heck of a lot of dough put that way, so no.
As has been said, Improvements are small after a certain point but the ask for those small improvements each time can be large (unfortunately)
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I would say it depends on how much disposable income you have to spend . If I was Elton John I would not flinch at £2000 for a cartridge.
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