alexs2
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Just a few thoughts and comments.....
Price wise,pretty much as I expected,although Heatherdale Audio were very well priced and fast to deliver...full marks there.
I've had MC's for virtually all of the time I've had a TT,from a Coral MC77,then a cheapish Linn,and latterly a Supex,which had sat in the loft alongside the TT for yrs while the kids were young.
Once I'd dug it all out of the loft,and upgraded the TT with a Lingo PSU,rewired the arm etc,the change to a new cartridge was the best addition I've made....the detail,depth,and range of the Argo are superb,and miles ahead of an admittedly tired Supex,which sounds warm and wooly by comparison.
It does require a lot of fiddling with tracking weight,bias and angles to get it working to the best possible,but it manages to be detailed and extended in frequency range,without ever being hard or tiring,although getting the cartrdige loading right can also help(I've tried all of the combinations on the Dino phono stage,and settled on 47kOhms).
The other thing which made a lot of difference was changing the phono stage PSU to a NC supply,which although relatively expensive really opened the sound out very nicely,and to my ears anyway,sounds much better than the Tom Evans Microgroove plus,which was edgy and tiring
Price wise,pretty much as I expected,although Heatherdale Audio were very well priced and fast to deliver...full marks there.
I've had MC's for virtually all of the time I've had a TT,from a Coral MC77,then a cheapish Linn,and latterly a Supex,which had sat in the loft alongside the TT for yrs while the kids were young.
Once I'd dug it all out of the loft,and upgraded the TT with a Lingo PSU,rewired the arm etc,the change to a new cartridge was the best addition I've made....the detail,depth,and range of the Argo are superb,and miles ahead of an admittedly tired Supex,which sounds warm and wooly by comparison.
It does require a lot of fiddling with tracking weight,bias and angles to get it working to the best possible,but it manages to be detailed and extended in frequency range,without ever being hard or tiring,although getting the cartrdige loading right can also help(I've tried all of the combinations on the Dino phono stage,and settled on 47kOhms).
The other thing which made a lot of difference was changing the phono stage PSU to a NC supply,which although relatively expensive really opened the sound out very nicely,and to my ears anyway,sounds much better than the Tom Evans Microgroove plus,which was edgy and tiring