The Straight tone arm does lose an unoticable amount of sound quality. I'd
imagine the damage would be proportional. And you can fix this by adusting
your cartridges about 20deg outward so that it somewhat emulates the effect
of an S shaped tonearm. (The same can be done for S-shaped tonearms to
improve tracking ability). I don't think this should be a concern. As far
as the stantons go, They seem to have some nice features, though, durability
and over all craftsman ship may suffer. Ive heard some pretty good stuff
about them. I'd imagine they're among the best entry level turntables aside
from maybe the top notch numark and gemini turntables. You get what you pay
for with music equiptment, in particular turntables. As for cartridges, I
use a pair of American DJ bananas which are patented by ortofon. They've
proven to be excellent scratch needles, though you can't adjust the
cartridges like I mentioned above. Stanton 500's are always a great cheap
cartridge to buy ($30.00?). I am partial to Shure and Ortofon needles. The
more you pay the better the sound quality and or tracking. But I wouldn't
pay more than $50 for your purposes. Check out www.djcafe.com for cartridge
posts in their forums. Hope this helped!
wErd hExx
PS: oh yeah, dont get cd decks. You said you wanted to experiment....its
all about vinyl for that, if you can afford records (much goodness is out of
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> print)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason J. Tar" <tarjason@pilot.msu.edu>
> To: <wp67966@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 4:12 PM
> Subject: Turntable.
>
>
> > At 06:21 PM 8/19/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Yes. Get the vestax PDX-2000's. Its the experimentalists choice!
> Plenty
> > >of great bells and whistles. Check out vestaxs site for more info.
> Email
> > >me with any questions. Peace
> >
> > Those do look nice, though perhaps a tad out of my price range. I'vequoted 5 lines a few messages that their straight arm carves up vinyl in a damaging
> > a few messages that their straight arm carves up vinyl in a damaging
> manner
> > though...notice that at all?
> >
> > Any idea about the Stanton ST-100 (or STR8-100)s? They seem to have aquoted 8 lines more features, and be about $100 cheaper. Though perhaps not as
> > more features, and be about $100 cheaper. Though perhaps not as
> > durable? I can't seem to find a decent review of those.....
> >
> >
> > Then comes the question of cartridges. Recommend one for $50-100 for
> > either player?
> >
> > Thanks for the advice...thinking of getting one tomorrow....just notquoted 11 lines on which one of those two. (OK, so I'd actually prefer the new Pioneer
> > on which one of those two. (OK, so I'd actually prefer the new Pioneer
> > CDJ1000, but...that is way out of the price range!)
> >
> > ---
> > Peace Hugs and Unity Jason J. Tar
> > W. W. J. D?
> > (What would Jason Do?)
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> >
> >
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