Great interesting video, the carbon cartridge is doing a great job, and lot cheaper than the ortofon blue , be interesting to see if rega had better cartridge how it would perform. Regards mark
Thanks for this video, however I have a different opinion. The SL-1200 tonearm is coloring the sound with resonances. It sounds fine and "exciting "as you say, but not true to the original source. The strength of the RB303 tonearm is its neutrality for most of the range (except above 10KHz). This has been proved with accelerometer tests on the Korf blog (and the author has no interest in selling Rega tonearms -- quite the opposite the author wants to sell his own Korf tonearms.) I don't care for the rest of the Rega turntable (i also prefer direct drive), but for me the ideal would be a SL-1200MK5 but with the Rega tonearm.
Great presentations with enthusiasm! But I'm wondering if these differences could be realized in a mid range, average system vs your high-end audio system?
Miss you buddy, no new videos anymore? I have the Grado Black and have about 670 hours on it. Pretty sure I'm going to get the Grado Green stylus next. Thanks again 😁
I always thoroughly enjoy your reviews, and this is no exception. Found this one fairly late (5 years after it was done) because I’m in the market for a new table, and these are two of the models I’m considering. I really like the MoFi for its design and build quality and features, and I do have a fair number of 45rpm LPs, so not having to remove the platter to change speeds would be a huge plus. That being said, I could add the Neo PSU and I do tend to be a “tweaker”, both of which point to the Rega. Alternately I could go with the P6, but that’s way more $. Feeling like the biggest difference may be that my Klipsch La Scalas are already a little light in deeper bass, which again points me toward the Rega. Did you find the lack of deeper bass with the SD was improved with any specific cartridge?
agreed, i also bought first from this new wave of very tiny stylus the prestige II gold from Grado, very nice frequency response but at the time they costed more 200€ than today, the Grado which as excelent cartridges in wood wasn´t bought ,the reason why they are so cheap now the prestige gold that are grey that came out better than expected, i used to have a grado in a SL-M1 from technics and sounded amazing good but now 1/5 of the hours of use and almost 5.000dollars to match old 300dollars cartridges, all changed after the year 2000 ,as my last 96 turntable the thorens TD2001 had a ortofon mc in blue mkII ,don´t remenber the model and was excelent and lasted till 2017 ,also not using it much but now i hear more records than cds as i am now not saturated of my old records that i kept new till today buy having a litle care not wearing gloves, never touched a groove on one of my records ,now they are a bit more than 15.000 ,one see´s a lot of re-issues and thinks "i have it" than go and get them and what i found starnge is that the re-issues are told to sound better but most of them sound a lot worst than the originals like crime of the century by supertramp from 76 or pink floyd´s animals and the most funny of all the 50th re-edition or is it 100th re-edition of pink floyd´s the dark side of the moon, the first sound so good how can they say it as been improved and when bought new it comes more dirtier than mine bought in 72, when i bought the SP-1 from technics with a AT tonearm and mc cartridge also from AT
Ian can I just put the mp200 stylus into the mp110 cartridge body; without having to purchase the entire mp-200 cartridge and stylus. Do you believe it’s compatible.
I wonder if this review is still valid in 2024. Since the new Pro-Ject Debut Carbon EVO comes with the Ortofon 2M Red stylus, while the Rega P1 still have the same specs and cheap stylus in 2024. The price here in UK is also a big difference between both turntables, Project - £500 and Rega P1 - £300. Hard to believe the P1 have better audio quality, anyone?
Genuinely the most welcoming introduction I had years ago into vinyl. You made me understand the difference between music that reaches the ear and goes no further and music that is visceral. Life changing.
Getting back into vinyl and I'll be adding this cartridge to my dads old JVC QL-A7 that I am renovating :) The old stylus on it might have been abused by a young kid in the late 80ties that goes by the same name as me ;)
It's been nearly 3 years now, and I really missed you my friend, I hope you doing well, I don't even want a video from you, just say hi, so we know you are ok 😣
I hope you are well and come back to RU-vid some day, hands down the best reviewer of carts and turntables on the entire internet. Thank you for all your hard work :)
Ian.. fab, but I am lost; can't see any review you have done with the Nagaoka MP200 VS the Goldring 1042, yet you do use both with the deck shoot out? So, I have the Technics SL-1200 MKII, and never used by a DJ. I bought it as old/new stock (never used) about 15 years back, so careful play, and always used Nagaoka MP200 (did try the MP150 and found that fine, too) didn't like the MP300, ad way over priced, but what about the Goldring 1042? I note you compared the 1006 to the MP150, so would you say the 1042 is better or as good as the MP200? My main complaint with the Nagaoka range is they wear out fast! 100 to 300 hours max, whereas the Goldrings are more like 500 to 800.
I wish you could get back to your reviews because just listening to a reviewers words y of the vague words are too easily misinterpreted. I think you have some of the best reviews on yt. The difference between these 2 phono preamps is clears, thanks!
