Judging a Turntable

[Made in 1968]

How many of you Judged or even dismissed a Turntable by the Amp you are using, blaming the Turntable when its actually the amp which is the issue ? for instance My Turntable sounds a bit dull with the latest amp i bought yet sounds great with the old one. So easy to flog a deck over a silly over sight, Ive have done this a lot in the past but learned, to try a few different amps instead of being hasty.. But a lot of people only have one amp.

[Made in 1968]

Dont be shy folks you can fess up, Audio dudes are far from knowing what they are doing or they would not swap and change so much. 35 + years ive been doing it, still aint got a clue.

[southall-1998_mk2]

Hi-Fi is a bit like designer brand clothing. Most people wear them, instead of trusting their ears. ''Oh look at me world, I own Martin Logan CLX'' Brag after fucking brag!

S.

[Made in 1968]

Not sure that as anything what so ever to do with the o/p

[southall-1998_mk2]

Whatever, Andre.

S.

[Made in 1968]

[PeteT]

Not having sold a deck since buying my current one... back in '78, (but I have had a couple of amps prior to my current X-A200R..) not much to fess up to here apart from getting too tied to the gear I already have...

P

[Audio Al]

Isnt it all retrospective , also part of compolsive box swapping syndrome

[Pigmy Pony]

I used to have an LP12/Grace G707/Nag MP11 Boron going into an early model Cyrus 1, and this worked very well (to my ears). Then I changed the amp to a Musical Fidelity Electra E100, and found that the SQ of my vinyl had fallen behind CD. Less volume for a given level setting, and rather duller like an invisible treble knob had been turned down a bit. I was playing CDs a lot more at the time so just put up with it.

If I'd bought the components in a different order, ie buying the turntable set up last, It would have sounded woefully lacking compared to my CD player, and may wrongly have been blamed, when in fact it was the amp's crappy phono stage - which is probably what Andre was alluding to in the o/p.

[Mikeandvan]

I was wondering the same recently, having bought a new to me 401, then went back to my NAS TT, changed tonearms, hard to judge. It takes extensive listening and changing around, a bit of a pita to be honest. Will be getting a valve amp tomorrow as well, has its own phono stage, but I think I do like my Graham slee era v, so that might stay, shame, would be nice to go down to one box amp wise. I currently use my NAS TT the most, haven't really gotten around to giving the idler a good try out, and I think I'm starting to get a bit tired of the NAS presentation, I'm guessing its the big heavy platter that gives it a slightly hard hefty sound, not sure though, I do wonder what gives each type of TT its sound, that's before we get onto tonearms. Think I'd like to try an LP12 or Voyd TT one of these days.