Matched and lovin it

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Wow!!

I just switched carts on tables and now I am loving it.

Put my OM-20 on my Luxman to see if I could match a fast cart with details in the highs, with a smooth and robust sounding table. I then spent last night listening to a lot of seventies electronic music (Michael Jarre) and it put me in a trance. I took the weight out of the cartridge and set tracking force at 1.75 and that thing smokes!!! I heard details in the highs that was crazy and the bass was so tight and smooth, while never bleeding into the midrange.

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Then, I put the Grado Blue on the Dual 505 because I knew it would not have any hum issues. Man, I think those two were made for each other!! It sounds much better than the Luxman pairing. Granted, I spent a good part of the afternoon setting both tables up, and I think that really made difference for the Grado. Classical music sounds great on the Dual set up, and acoustic music is equally satisfying.

Another crappy pick


**(man I can't get these pics to come out large)**

I have both tables running through my Pioneer SX-650 with the Luxman running through the 650 phono stage and the Dual through the Aux with the AT-PEQ3 preamp.

Life is good