Hi Everyone
This is day 2 for me on the forums and it's been great. Lot's of great feedback for everyone and is very helpful.
I just wanted to bring up the subject of TT's. I got into collecting Vinyl about 2 years ago while I was visiting the US. I picked up a cheap Numark portable 100 dollar player and it suited me fine for the first year or so. I figured it was time to upgrade to something better, so I went in for the Project Genie with the Orotfon om3e cartridge. It's been almost a year, and I think it's a great step up frmo the Numark. Vinyl sounds much better and the bass is much deeper. Overall I'm quite happy.
Although, recently I've been thinking whether I should upgrade from this. I was thinking of upgrading the cartridge to the 2m Red. Sushil from Nova Audio quoted me something like 6 k, which is a lot mroe than it costs online, but everything costs more when imported to India and bought legitimately!
The other option was to buy a second hand TT. I scoured Chor Bazaar, and I know some people have found great stuff there. Firstly, I am a newbie at this and am not sure what to get/whether I can get a new stylus/cartridge for it, and secondly I'm weary about picking up anything from there just coz everything looks like it could fall apart once I get it home! But I'm assuming you could get something good for about 5k, and then a new cart would be another 5-7k?
I am basically wondering what you guys' opinion was on this. Should I stick to my Genie (that attracts a tremendous amount of dust without a dust cover!) and upgrade the cart to 2m for 6k, or go in for something completely different.
Looking forward to your comments.
- Tek
This is day 2 for me on the forums and it's been great. Lot's of great feedback for everyone and is very helpful.
I just wanted to bring up the subject of TT's. I got into collecting Vinyl about 2 years ago while I was visiting the US. I picked up a cheap Numark portable 100 dollar player and it suited me fine for the first year or so. I figured it was time to upgrade to something better, so I went in for the Project Genie with the Orotfon om3e cartridge. It's been almost a year, and I think it's a great step up frmo the Numark. Vinyl sounds much better and the bass is much deeper. Overall I'm quite happy.
Although, recently I've been thinking whether I should upgrade from this. I was thinking of upgrading the cartridge to the 2m Red. Sushil from Nova Audio quoted me something like 6 k, which is a lot mroe than it costs online, but everything costs more when imported to India and bought legitimately!
The other option was to buy a second hand TT. I scoured Chor Bazaar, and I know some people have found great stuff there. Firstly, I am a newbie at this and am not sure what to get/whether I can get a new stylus/cartridge for it, and secondly I'm weary about picking up anything from there just coz everything looks like it could fall apart once I get it home! But I'm assuming you could get something good for about 5k, and then a new cart would be another 5-7k?
I am basically wondering what you guys' opinion was on this. Should I stick to my Genie (that attracts a tremendous amount of dust without a dust cover!) and upgrade the cart to 2m for 6k, or go in for something completely different.
Looking forward to your comments.
- Tek