Rega P3-24 upgrade

[plastico]

Hi Yetkin. I am working out of town so I just checked in. When I soldered the Cardas wire I used a low watt pointy tip soldering iron. I am pretty sure / from memory, 25 watt. I used the iron to strip the wire jacket, then I blue tacked the clips on a support/a little box so it would not move. I then pre-soldered the clips, and blue tacked the wires so they are on the clips. Once you do this, it is pretty easy to solder these fine wires to the clips, lickety split. Now, this is done at the arm so make sure the platter does not move cause this is done on the plinth. Just do not forget to have the shrink tube on the wire before this operation.

Cheers, Doug

[RichB]

I would suggest you sell the P3-24 and put the money with the mods cost and buy an RP6. A proper upgrade.

+1 I'm currently looking after a p6 for a friend and its a major step up on the p3-24.

[JohnJo]

+1 I'm currently looking after a p6 for a friend and its a major step up on the p3-24.

Agreed. I recently had a demo of the RP3 Elys and RP6 Exact and was genuinely shocked how much better the latter was.

[rubber duck]

This is often the reported comparison. A more meaningful comparison would mean RP3/Exact/PSU vs RP6/Exact/PSU. Otherwise we don't know if we're hearing the better cartridge and/or external PSU on the RP6. I don't doubt the RP6 is better but how much better I wonder once we account for cart and PSU.

[JohnJo]

This is often the reported comparison. A more meaningful comparison would mean RP3/Exact/PSU vs RP6/Exact/PSU. Otherwise we don't know if we're hearing the better cartridge and/or external PSU on the RP6. I don't doubt the RP6 is better but how much better I wonder once we account for cart and PSU.

Yes more meaningful ref. sound quality, but for the price of getting the cheaper TT close to the other it might be more prudent to spend the money on the RP6 as the upgrade is a given factor, it looks nicer in the gloss finish and it will always be worth more money should you ever decide to sell.

[tiguan]

Thank you all for all those input.
Actually my plan on the rega p3-24 ( with external PSU) has 2 steps.
1) in short term upgrade the arm counterweight, vta adjuster arrange better feet ( not the most important but lets see alternatives)
2) long term changing plinth... focused natural wooden blocks without cutting and giving shape to much.just alining bottom and top. There are some diy works in the net. Plus isolation platform under.
İ received today tecnoweight and 3 point vta adjuster.

[tiguan]

I managed weight and vta adjuster, focused to tone armwire.
Let me list the alternatives to be more specific, which I found and could reach by googling. May be helpful for somebody else aswell.

1) Cardas 4x awg33 cable ready with screen (obviously in the shortlist commonly used, good experiences)
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...159612&alt=web

2) 0,2mm silver wire with PTFE
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...394301&alt=web

3) 0,2mm gold plated silver wire with silk covering
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item...BAY-GB&alt=web

4) As rewire kit from Joseph De Philips Discovery tonearm wire
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Discovery-Wi...item462ad83a1e

I plan to use one of this RCA plug

1) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Valab-Star-R...item418962b863

2) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Valab-Star-G...item4189340b03

Kondo Ikeda are
- out of my budget
- I do not think to spend that much for RB 301, if it would be higher level arm then maybe to look kondo or ikeda

1) Could you please share your experiences with those above wires
2) dou you have any other recommendation for wire
3) finally based on your experience SUT should be close to tonearm or phono pre (based on this I will decide rewire kit length) my humble straight opinion put stepup close to tonearm immediately step up low voltage MC to MM then cary to phono pre. But I know rules of hifi are not that much simple always.

[tiguan]

No hit for other alternatives means cardas decided... Thanks Doug... İ am giving the order. Found one potential plinth cut from wooden block...