On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 14:11 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > i have a music hall turntable, and it is the paragon of great design > (glass platter!), reasonable cost and sweet sound. i have the mmf-5 with > a goldring cartridge, feeding a NAD phono preamp.
In europe there's good availability of Pro-Ject turntables (http://www.project-audio.com). I have a Pro-Ject RPM-4 turntable with Grado Labs' (http://www.gradolabs.com) Gold MI cartridge which goes up to 50 kHz in frequency response. Very good for playing direct-cut vinyls. They also have cartridges for 78 rpm. Pro-Ject also makes phono preamps, but I have a Creek audio's preamp (http://www.creekaudio.co.uk/main_content.asp? catlook=obh&content=obhseries). I've transferred number of vinyls to CD using this equipment with very good results. Wish there were open source or even Linux software for authoring DVD-Audio discs to take full advantage of capabilities of vinyl hardware... -- Jussi Laako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>