Dowser
Learning to bodge again..
can you get decent MC for less than £300?
I got my last Linn Asaka, 2nd hand and covered in crud, for £40 - sounds very nice after some concerted cleaning
can you get decent MC for less than £300?
You can't get them new (and fairy impossible to find them used). I've heard Ortofon's quintet red and blue and I think you're better off spending the same money on one of their MM models. The 2M bronze is the one to go for in my opinion.I think rather highly of my Ortofon MC Vivo Blue
You can't get them new (and fairy impossible to find them used). I've heard Ortofon's quintet red and blue and I think you're better off spending the same money on one of their MM models. The 2M bronze is the one to go for in my opinion.
You could get an AT OC9MLii (older model) on/under budget.
After setting it up perfectly set the tracking force very slightly heavy to achieve the sound you ask for.
I didn't intend to cause offence or to disregard your advice, in fact all you said was "I love my Vivo Blue" or words to that effect and I pointed out that they haven't been made for some time. They also had a relatively short production run so there aren't loads of them out there. Ortofon have made a few poor decisions over recent years and discontinuing that was one of them. I loved the Rondo range too but they pulled those and now they're also hard to find. The lower end of Quintet range just doesn't measure up in my opinion.I'm so terrible sorry for making such an unhelpful and misleading suggestion. To the op: please ignore Vivo Blue!