Giovanni68
16-02-2018, 15:09
Long story the shortest I can.
I bought a used MKI Gyrodec with lot of extras among which three tonearms, weird but true installed a Linn LV X, on the side a Zeta and an OEM Rega 300, both of these latter ones in need of rewire and I understand the ex owner buying this whilst eventually sending the other two to fix but he did't make it on time and as such all of his gear remained unused as it was...
I didn't play ,more than 4-5 discs with the turntable when I realized the belts being gone and also one of the wires connecting the shell to the pick-up being broken. My busy season was approaching so I shifted it all to better times, waited patiently till past Christmas and finally I said I wanna get myself new wires for the shell and then the belts, got the wires and realized that the Linn tonearm shell is not a conventional one, on the shell of course it needs female plugs but on the shell side it needs male ones which I wasn't aware and the female plug whose wire was broken is also bent so I Can't restore it and as such I have a turntable and three arms which I can't utilize and I am quite pi**ed off and seriously thinking to send it all to hell!
Now I don't want to spend money to rewire the Zeta nor the Rega, I am not old yet but don't want to bother with integrated headshell should I need to replace the wires but just found out that also the Linn tonearm, even tho the weakest of the three, not easy to work out so at this point I either find a Linn compatible headshell (and appropriate wires) or go straight ahead with another tonearm in the hope to being able to sell some of the other ones (Zeta, Rega, Linn) but at this moment in time I don't know which is the wisest option considering I am not ready to fork out money for the 4th tonearm nor I want to go and spend for a SME MKIV or MKV even if I could sell the three I own, I would make little use of the TT to justify more money for it if not the necessary to make it spin again.
Which move would you suggest to go through? Does it exist a shell compatible with Linn tonearms but with "regular" pins as to use normal wires?
Thank you
Giovanni
I bought a used MKI Gyrodec with lot of extras among which three tonearms, weird but true installed a Linn LV X, on the side a Zeta and an OEM Rega 300, both of these latter ones in need of rewire and I understand the ex owner buying this whilst eventually sending the other two to fix but he did't make it on time and as such all of his gear remained unused as it was...
I didn't play ,more than 4-5 discs with the turntable when I realized the belts being gone and also one of the wires connecting the shell to the pick-up being broken. My busy season was approaching so I shifted it all to better times, waited patiently till past Christmas and finally I said I wanna get myself new wires for the shell and then the belts, got the wires and realized that the Linn tonearm shell is not a conventional one, on the shell of course it needs female plugs but on the shell side it needs male ones which I wasn't aware and the female plug whose wire was broken is also bent so I Can't restore it and as such I have a turntable and three arms which I can't utilize and I am quite pi**ed off and seriously thinking to send it all to hell!
Now I don't want to spend money to rewire the Zeta nor the Rega, I am not old yet but don't want to bother with integrated headshell should I need to replace the wires but just found out that also the Linn tonearm, even tho the weakest of the three, not easy to work out so at this point I either find a Linn compatible headshell (and appropriate wires) or go straight ahead with another tonearm in the hope to being able to sell some of the other ones (Zeta, Rega, Linn) but at this moment in time I don't know which is the wisest option considering I am not ready to fork out money for the 4th tonearm nor I want to go and spend for a SME MKIV or MKV even if I could sell the three I own, I would make little use of the TT to justify more money for it if not the necessary to make it spin again.
Which move would you suggest to go through? Does it exist a shell compatible with Linn tonearms but with "regular" pins as to use normal wires?
Thank you
Giovanni