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ML and all line contact carts are highly sensitive to VTA. Have you got that right? On setting mine by ear I found that too 'heel down' gave me a flatter, bass heavy sound and too 'toe down' the inverse, a more brittle sound. I'd look there first. The 2M Red is elliptical and won't care so much...

More than happy with my forty year old Axis, though it has had a heart transplant (new PSU) and obviously multiple carts and a couple of belts down the years. To answer the question, if I ever strayed, as I've had belt drives all my life, I would be intrigued to try a new Technics. I'd...

Possibly https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/cambridge-audio-melomania-m100 at https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/336109032457?

Then if you want them on CD write to a ten quid usb cd drive, obvs.

If you want to digitise you could try an RCA to 3 mill headphone jack adapter, plug tape deck 'out' into a PC and capture with Audacity. I've made decent takes off vinyl that way to play on my phone.

I replaced my defunct Technics with a Nak (not as fine as @nopiano 's example - a mere 482Z) just to play my old stuff, and now some cassettes inherited from my sister. It's true what they say - try Nak and you'll never go back. Or I think that's what they say my hearing isn't what it was...

AUX to your tape deck's 'out' or 'output'. Pre-out to your tape deck's 'in' or 'input' or 'record in'. The level of the stuff you are recording will vary with the volume setting of the receiver now, so start low and turn up slowly. Select 'Aux' to hear a cassette.

I notice Cambridge state that the v2 has a "high-output Moving Coil" which would take the output level down: I have similar (the Hana SH Mk2) and they tend to whip up only 2mV or so, compared to 4mV to 5mV for a MM. So I have to turn my amp up when I put a record on, too. Your comment is...

One thing that has always baffled me is so-called 'isolation' with spikes (see eg https://www.richersounds.com/norstone-bergen-2-satin-black/) Spikes on the bottom of speakers are in fact there to achieve the exact opposite: to firmly root the box to the floor so the minuscule backward rocking...

Second the Discogs advice - you don't even have to join to check on current market prices. Also you may be pleasantly surprised: I had no idea a couple of mine were worth a ton (not that I'm planning to sell).

Yeah those lagom guys will make any size you want. I'm getting a five shelf unit with all custom sizes. But it's really about the style that suits you.

Have you looked at lagom studios?

To state the obvious most people listen on their phones. I've got one of these https://ebay.us/m/JCKQDT and am very happy with the lossless cd rips (which are my wont) on my shure se425s. There's also an upgrade path here of a usb dac by ifi or whoever, when you feel there's something lacking...

Stevie Wonder will only be 81 then.

Two possibilities here: the historic 'graphic equaliser' with its sliders for different frequency bands (but note these would normally sit between pre and power stages) or as @Gray says the current DSP approach. I searched for 'phono pre-amp with DSP' and amazingly found a hit...