[Boon[_2_]]

On Jul 30, 10:09*am, Bret L wrote:
On Jul 30, 9:28*am, Boon wrote:





On Jul 29, 7:34*pm, Bret L wrote:

Most receivers that have phono inputs are for magnetic cartidges only.
Some (e.g. the Yamaha R-900) also have moving coil capability. It
doesn't sound as though you currently have a turntable. When you
decide to get one make sure the cartridge you get is matched to the
phono input section of whichever receiver you get.

Do you know yet which turntable and cartridge are you considering?

*He'd be crazy to consider anything but a modestly priced cart for the
system he has. It would be like putting a Ferrari engine in a Chevy
Nova.

*Those are either MM, moving iron or the high output MC.

Or OC-9s and DL-103s, which are modestly priced, sound great and are
low-output MCs.

*Because they exist, they must be good choices for a non-audiophile
who just wants to listen to his music?

Of course they are. And both are good enough to whet one's appetite
for something better. Both are relatively affordable. Are you saying
that because they are low-output MCs, they can't be good choices for a
non-audiophile who just wants to listen to his music?

He could always buy a set of
transformers if he really needed them later, but there is no reason to
go to the bother when good high output choices exist.

MC phono stages are getting cheaper and cheaper. He could buy one of
the Cambridge Audio phono stages for $99 and never have to worry about
cartridge choice again.

A system such as
he is proposing is not going to sound much different with any cart he
gets so long as he sticks to reasonably decent ones in the low price
range.

Bull****. Lots of inexpensive cartridges sound radically different
from one another, even on a relatively cheap system.

The high dollar ones tend to be colored on purpose and even if
not take a lot of moxie to get best results from.

Not true. Some of the Dynavectors measure remarkably flat for analog.
So do others.

And a cheap, poorly aligned cartridge can do as much damage to a
record as an expensive, poorly aligned catridge...so there goes your
dumb "moxie" argument.