Hi All
Hope everyone is staying well and keeping safe...
Please may I ask this question as have heard it discussed a few times on the forum, but without a real reason why.
The thought of a Rega arm on a Technics 1200, or something like a Toshiba SR-370 has always resulted in forum members going, 'no no no', it will sound crap or it is crap.
Apart from dimension issues and fouling the lid etc - there seems to be a lot of armboards with the rega in mind and I also recall that a technics/origin live rb250 combo first broke out onto the pages of Hifi World as a breakthrough idea with stunning results.
Marco also mentioned that both have the technics 1200 and rega have the same 'sound signature' and our therefore a bad match???
Can somebody shed some light on what this really means and why it is so? i.e. Why are they a bad match? What are the physics of each which makes them lose synergy in your opinion? Is it because the big direct drives have a load of vibration that the design of the rega is bad at insulating against? Other than that, it strikes me as a bit of a witchcraft. I am not expert or experienced enough for myself to detect, but I did notice an improvement is bass tightness and clarity when I swapped the technics arm for a Origin Live RB250 with a Goldring 1042.
I would love to know but all that has been said is that they are not compatible.
Any thoughts? Would really appreciate knowing whats behind it.
Cheers.