Turntable upgrade advice needed.

[johnniebaby]

Hi, I am currently using a Pink Triangle, Little Pink Thing, with RB 250, modded by j7 and a Denon DL160.I have seen for sale a Project Perspective, with Ortofon MC Super 15 MC cart.Do you think this would be a worthwhile change, upgrade, sidegrade or waste of money?Can anyone help please?

 

[DB]

Hi,

in my opinion this would be a bit of a sideways move, LPT is an excellent mid range TT and I think you'd be better off either just keeping it, saving more for a significant upgrade or keeping the LPT & RB250 and upgrading your cartridge.

opinions are of course just like a**eholes - everybody has one!

cheers

Dave

 

[Papa Lazarou]

DB wrote:

Hi,in my opinion this would be a bit of a sideways move, LPT is an excellent mid range TT and I think you'd be better off either just keeping it, saving more for a significant upgrade or keeping the LPT & RB250 and upgrading your cartridge.

opinions are of course just like a**eholes - everybody has one!

cheers

Dave

I agree 100%.

You'd need to be talking about an Orbe, VPI Scoutmaster etc to be a really worthwhile upgrade imo.

 

[JANDL100]

I agree with the 2 previous posters.

If you've money to "invest"

, then upgrade your cartridge - the LPT and RB250 are certainly good enough to take a nice Dynavector or similar a level or three up from your Denon. It will transform your sound

 

[johnniebaby]

Thanks guys, cartridge recommedations? Could go to £250.

 

[dudywoxer]

you'll love this, but if you have a 160 I can not think of much that will beat it at £250.00. The dyn 10 x 5 may be nads better, it's certainly different in its presentation, or a sumiko blue point special at about £240, but to me, again different rather better.

Have you still get the Rega endstub and counterweight or did they go in the upgrade. If they are still on then they should go first IMHO.

 

[DB]

Another opinion here it must be said and of course dependent on whether you have an mc input on the Rotel pre but I'd be inclined towards the Ortofon Rondo range - I think a 250 budget would just get the Red - if it's anything like the Blue (which it will be - main difference is stylus profile) then it's a real bargain and a very nice cart indeed. The Dynavectors mentioned above are certainly good bets too.

cheers

Dave

 

[Biscuit]

Technoweight and Achromat/plat should be a good upgrade IMO

 

[johnniebaby]

Hi dudywoxer,arm has had the OL weight & stub, j7 strip+ int. & ext. Cardas re-wire.

 

[DB]

NICE suggestion biscuit !

To take it a logical step further why notgive Arthur at Funk Firm a call for advice on LPT upgrades of course he's biased but nobody is more knowledgeable on LPT and I've heard the Achromat do wonderful things!

cheers

Dave

 

[johnniebaby]

Have tried the Achroplat, did not hear any significant improvement, possibly because the platter is already acrylic?

 

[dudywoxer]

Well all the obvious is done, can you get a demo of a dyn or sumiko?.

I am in a similar place at the moment, and am struggling to come to terms with spending £750 to £1k to get a real improvement (Rondo Bronze and heed

phone stage as an example)

 

[DB]

Fair point Johniebaby the Achromat may not do much on an acrylic platter - it was on the metal platter of the Scottish turntable that I heard it work magic and that thing does tend to ring a bit!

cheers

Dave

 

[Uncle Ants]

johnniebaby wrote:

Have tried the Achroplat, did not hear any significant improvement, possibly because the platter is already acrylic?

Quite likely. That was my impression with it on another acrylic platter (on an RPM9) and customer feedback backs it up. Big performance improvements in metal and glass platters (Thorens, Linns, Rega, Systemdeks, Technics sl1200/1210, various metal plattered Pro-Jects) less so on those which are very massy or some form of vinyl or acrylic interface.

 

[Davewhityetagain]

dudywoxer wrote:

Well all the obvious is done, can you get a demo of a dyn or sumiko?.I am in a similar place at the moment, and am struggling to come to terms with spending £750 to £1k to get a real improvement (Rondo Bronze and heed

phone stage as an example)

1k gets you a big part of a Clearaudio Solution turntable now that is an upgrade

 

[dudywoxer]

Davewhityetagain wrote:

dudywoxer wrote:

Well all the obvious is done, can you get a demo of a dyn or sumiko?.I am in a similar place at the moment, and am struggling to come to terms with spending £750 to £1k to get a real improvement (Rondo Bronze and heed

phone stage as an example)

1k gets you a big part of a Clearaudio Solution turntable now that is an upgrade

yes, it also gets you a big chunk of a P7, and that where my money may go

but you are still short a cart and stage

 

[Uncle Ants]

Davewhityetagain wrote:

dudywoxer wrote:

Well all the obvious is done, can you get a demo of a dyn or sumiko?.I am in a similar place at the moment, and am struggling to come to terms with spending £750 to £1k to get a real improvement (Rondo Bronze and heed

phone stage as an example)

1k gets you a big part of a Clearaudio Solution turntable now that is an upgrade

Not if you then can't afford a cartridge and phono stage to go with it, it isn't, though I'm sure it'd look pretty

 

[dudywoxer]

sarcastic minds think alike then

 

[johnniebaby]

Sorry, forgot to mention, I have just bought a s/h Rotel RQ970BX phono stage.