Denon 103R arrived!!!

[jrhymeammo]

When I first installed my Denon cart, I also noticed a little hum in 1 channel. What happend to me was that pins on Denon were much larger than Grado, so I had to open it up a bit more. When I tried it again, I just did offer a solid connection to one of the ground(it was my right channel so musta been green...) After I reclamped it, hum was gone.

But it might just be from using MC setting with a bit more BG noise. Or just get a new headshell for $10 and just enjoy.

compared to your first post....sounds like you are starting to analyze your cart, man. Not good bra. LOL.

-JRA

[royphil345]

compared to your first post....sounds like you are starting to analyze your cart, man. Not good bra. LOL.
-JRA

LOL... I hear you!!!... better stop before I need a more expensive cartridge...

Really, I've been listening to it on and off all day and can't find any significant fault with it. Frequency response may not be perfectly flat, but anything that sounded like an "edge" on my other carts sounds more like a slight "bulge" on this one at the very worst. And way more information is being brought out of the grooves at the same time. Very, very easy to just sit back and enjoy, and I do have trouble doing that sometimes. Doubt if I'd even benefit much from anything better on my rather modest system. Overall sound is exactly what I was hoping for. I kept coming back to my Shure for the natural / slightly warm tonal balance, but the slight hardness and lack of "life" was getting to me. The DL-103R sounds like the cartridge the Shure is trying to be.