Hi
My brother has an unmodded technics 1210 and is looking for a mm cart to better the ‘standard’ Stanton. Is there anything around the £100 mark that could offer improvement? Thanks!
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I'm Drew.
Hi
My brother has an unmodded technics 1210 and is looking for a mm cart to better the ‘standard’ Stanton. Is there anything around the £100 mark that could offer improvement? Thanks!
Ortofon 2m carts always do well on Technics standard arm. You may get a 2m blue for his budget that sounds pretty good.
Technics SL1210 MK2 fully rebuilt and repainted. Ortofon 2M Black Cart, Isonoe isolation feet , MN bearing and Funk Firm platter upgrade, Oyaide RCA Tone Arm and speaker cables, Jelco SA-750D Tonearm. Oyaide HS-TF Carbon headshell, MCRU Linear External PSU, High Fidelity Crystal glass turntable matt, Blue LED upgrade, Denon AVR-2808CI Amp, Bowers and Wilkins DM602S3 Speakers,
Black Rhodium Jazz power cables for amp and turntable, Firebottle mk2 Phono Stage.
Location: Glasgow/Italy
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I'm Drew.
Thanks! Will try to find one... any others?
The Nagaoka MP 11 is a good cart for a standard Techie
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I'm Mike.
I had a 2m Blue on mine for a while, was decent for the money, a bit hard edged when pushed loud on rock but if you can pick one up second hand it's a decent buy.
Nagaoka MP110.
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Shure M55e + JICO stylus.
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For up to and around £100 you'd be mad not to consider the new Audio Technica AT-VM95 range - see https://eu.audio-technica.com/cartridges/moving-magnet