Recent content by DELBOY14

Time to give some credit to What HiFi. For some time I have wanted to upgrade my Cd player's, I have a Marantz CD63 Ki SIG That I purchased new a long time back, and a OPPO UDP 203 4K UHD BluRay player, I purchased new a while ago, both are good CD players. I also purchased a Audiolab m dac+ and...

The Linn is 40 years old and still has a following because it is so good, a lot of the upgrades involve the bearing plate, bearing and arm board as I have done to my Thorens, there are other upgrades available for the Thorens as in the Fidelity Designs carbon fiber parts and main bearing. The...

You could try an iFi DC blocker or ground loop eliminator on the amp, maybe both.

If you know your SME arms then you know the 3009 had a knife bearing for the horizontal bearing, while it's a good arm that knife bearing has stiction issues. A good arm will use high-quality bearings for all movements, the better the quality the higher the cost but the better tracking of the...

I have a OPPO 203 and while its ok its not as good as my Marantz 63 Ki Signature. fed into my amp by the same RCA cables. I have now got my self a Audiolab M-Dac+ and have been tying that out with the Marantz, now the M-Dac+ is run in I will test it against the OPPO. The plan is to move to...

I gave up on the arm, I just cannot travel to the dealers as there some distance and covid restrictions make it impossible. (Gold Note 5.1) So I got myself a Audiolab M-DAC+ and Tellurium Q Blue coax cable, I plugged my Marantz 63Ki Signature MKII into it and I have to say its a Major...

Hopefully i will find out soon, I am planning to have a little listen.

Well that really opened my eye's, a load of food for thought, an education to help me on my way, thank you.

Well that's opened my eyes, I run through those arms I listed and looked at Cartridges that would work with them, its not easy to get recommended cartridges to be in that green preferred band. I looked at my own arm and cartridge, they work out to be in the yellow 12hz band but that 1040...

Thank you all for you help. I now have a list of arms I am willing to spend on, It is unfortunate that I cannot fit them all and chose the better one. So any information or help that you want to give please do as I find this an utter madness to spend money on something that may even not work...

Thank you, first all my albums are flat having looked after them for the last 35 + plus years for the oldest ones. second, setting up my highly modified TD160 is not a problem. thirdly, the TD160 has no feet, instead its got a sheet of sorbothane covering the 10mm ply base that's placed...

Its all about what is considered to be a good arm, the SME3009 has a poor bearing design in the knife blade, The REGA 330 is a known arm of good design that will probably track better allowing a more refined sound I hope. Both the Onix and F5 look like good arms and both manufactures provide...

The F7 is £495 and the F5 £700 + is that something to do with Covid 19 !! I do like the look of that F5 though, standard is £700 plus I need an arm board but that's easy. thanks

The Rega RB330 is fixed but will fit without any problems the VTA is adjustable via Rega packing spacers that use the same three point fixing as the arm. Never heard of Funk Firm but had a look at the arms, the prices start at £495 for the F7 (don't like that) and £700 + for the F5 that will...

Yes if the new arm is better then I will sell the arm. Not sure about the Onix but its around the right price. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of Origin, Its tough.