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April 9, 2013 - 4:46pm
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I'm screwed...wife wants vinyl system!
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Go for it. I would suggest a cost effective upgrade from the Carbon to the Pro-Ject 1 Xpression III. A little bit better, and a better platter (and it's better looking too, cool white/transluscent acrylic, bellissima!). Worthy of upgrading the cartridge now, or later if you want.
I would say you are lucky; not screwed. Carpe Diem!
Once you get the system set up you can always add other sources to it; a CD player or whatever.
If you already have the 10.4 speakers, you have some pretty good ones.
You must be driving them with some kind of amplifier; perhaps you can just keep that and add a Musical Fidelity V-LPS phono preamp. it is excellent; far better-sounding than the phono stage built-in to the Marantz or other integrated amps. It runs $195 in the US.
The Music Hall MMF-2.2 is under $450, and is an excellent turntable. I suggest that you consider it, although the Pro-ject is very similar. You would have to spend close to $1000 to get a better one.
If you get the MMF-2.2 and V-LPS, that is only an $650 outlay, so the speaker upgrade may not have to wait very long either.
Thx for the suggestion! that one looks nice indeed...not a lot more expensive than the carbon.
Yeah 1st i'll hear how it all sounds than decide on the cartridge upgrade.