Hi all!
I'm a new poster and my question is about the systemdek IIX. I bought this deck secondhand recently and it has an RB300 arm and 1022GX Goldring cartridge. At the moment it's playing through an old NAD 3020 and Mission 733 speakers. I want to like vinyl but often I switch input to a NAD C540 cdp and the soundstage, clarity, levels etc are much superior off the same recordings from CD. I don't mind the pop and hiss of vinyl, but the sound is not just not right.
Does anyone have any comments? Obviously the phono stage on the NAD is not super amazing but I've also heard it's not too bad. Am I expecting too much from the TT? Are the components not getting the best out of it? I've also thought that the deck may need to be serviced and to that end, does anyone have a recommendation for the Manchester/Cheshire area? Basically, I want to really get into all my dad's old vinyl and I'm hoping to give myself that incentive as various forum posts say that the systemdek can really rival good CD players!
Thanks for your input,
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I'm a new poster and my question is about the systemdek IIX. I bought this deck secondhand recently and it has an RB300 arm and 1022GX Goldring cartridge. At the moment it's playing through an old NAD 3020 and Mission 733 speakers. I want to like vinyl but often I switch input to a NAD C540 cdp and the soundstage, clarity, levels etc are much superior off the same recordings from CD. I don't mind the pop and hiss of vinyl, but the sound is not just not right.
Does anyone have any comments? Obviously the phono stage on the NAD is not super amazing but I've also heard it's not too bad. Am I expecting too much from the TT? Are the components not getting the best out of it? I've also thought that the deck may need to be serviced and to that end, does anyone have a recommendation for the Manchester/Cheshire area? Basically, I want to really get into all my dad's old vinyl and I'm hoping to give myself that incentive as various forum posts say that the systemdek can really rival good CD players!
Thanks for your input,
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