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Location: Hemel Hempstead
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I'm Steve.
Oooo lovely! My new OC9.
Have just installed my shiny new AT-OC9 as supplied at a great price by Dave C (thanks Dave).
Even though it's currently in a stock 1210MK5, save or a record clamp and a Sumiko headshell, and even though I can't get the VTA right until I have a headshell spacer and my new, light AT MG-10 headshell, it's still sounding pretty darned good!
I'm now toying with whether to sell my DL304 or keep it mounted on a spare headshell as a spare....
Steve aka 'Twelvebears' (it's a long story)
System: Technics 1210 Mk5, Jelco 750 arm, AT33EV via MF X-LP2 Phono Stage, Oyaide mat and record clamp. SB Touch via Marantz PM-11S1 amp and Wilson Benesch A.C.T. speakers. Mark Grant cables and PS Audio Power Plant Premier mains regenerator.
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Location: Wrexham, North Wales, UK
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Nice one, Steve
Keep us posted on how things develop and lets some some piccies!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Location: The New Forest
Posts: 1,861
I'm Steve.
ooh so envious - I am awaiting the AT 33PTG I ordered over a week ago.
Hope it comes soon...
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the at33ptg's a fantastic cart. i'm using it now and although it's not as fun as the 103 series, it brings its own signature sound to the table. you'll really enjoy it.
kelvin.
.my salvation.kab technics sl-1200mkII/AT33PTG/achromat . philips dvd963sa (modded analogue stage) as cdp . pioneer tx-410 stereo tunertrichord dino phono preamp + dino ncpsu . astintrew at2000+ integrated ampalr-jordan note 3
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Location: The New Forest
Posts: 1,861
I'm Steve.
I was getting a bit worried about when I would receive it from Audio cubes - sent them an enquiry and got a response in a few mins that is is being shipped...
Fingers crossed.
I choose it for it's relatively high output and others have said it pairs well with the Dynavector P75 phono amp I have.
Audio Cubes have obscene amounts of TT and TT accessory porn...
http://www.audiocubes2.com/category/...cessories.html
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Location: A Strangely Isolated Place in Suffolk with Far Away Trains Passing By...
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I'm David.
I don't know how the latest examples are, but in decades past I'd suggest running the cart at 1.7 - 1.8grammes for a few LP's to settle the suspension in and then reduce the tracking weight to around 1.5 from then on. Tracking seemed fine at this weight and although brightly lit, there was "air" to go with it. this also applied to the OC30, which looks suspiciously like an AT33 series model to me (same basic family sound but with more "power" and "authority" low down, rather than the pungent, ballistic push that Linn cartridges of the time could do)
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