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Tubes warm your heart too
I'm dealing with this dilemma:
The guy who sold me my Jealvox 3 way horn speakers (see: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52000) also had a Luxman TT for sale. It is a pd270 with an Ortofon mc 200 pu and a T-20 mc transformer and it could be bought for about 180 usd if you also took about 70 (not very interesting) records too.
My friend the H.C. Andersen illustrator heard about that and told me to buy it for him. The stuff was delivered to my address a few days ago. And now I regret. I should have bought it my self. The Lluxman looks real great. The seller has used this stuff for about 20 years without leaving any marks at all.
The Michell record clamp that came with it I took a side imeddiately (with a Denon test record), my friend doesn't have to hear about that.
I have a Thorens td-126 mk II (and a Rega Planar 2, a micro seiki dd-20, Sansui 2050 c and small Connaisseur TT) so I guess I can live without the Luxman.
But what about the moving coil pu and the transformer. Should I risk my friendship with the illustrator for that. And tell him that I got it and it is not for sale? Is the mc that much better than the other pu's I have (Ortofon concord 30 and vms 30 mk II)? Should I risk my friendship for this mc stuff? Please help me out on that one!
Peter, Denmark
The guy who sold me my Jealvox 3 way horn speakers (see: http://audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52000) also had a Luxman TT for sale. It is a pd270 with an Ortofon mc 200 pu and a T-20 mc transformer and it could be bought for about 180 usd if you also took about 70 (not very interesting) records too.
My friend the H.C. Andersen illustrator heard about that and told me to buy it for him. The stuff was delivered to my address a few days ago. And now I regret. I should have bought it my self. The Lluxman looks real great. The seller has used this stuff for about 20 years without leaving any marks at all.
The Michell record clamp that came with it I took a side imeddiately (with a Denon test record), my friend doesn't have to hear about that.
I have a Thorens td-126 mk II (and a Rega Planar 2, a micro seiki dd-20, Sansui 2050 c and small Connaisseur TT) so I guess I can live without the Luxman.
But what about the moving coil pu and the transformer. Should I risk my friendship with the illustrator for that. And tell him that I got it and it is not for sale? Is the mc that much better than the other pu's I have (Ortofon concord 30 and vms 30 mk II)? Should I risk my friendship for this mc stuff? Please help me out on that one!
Peter, Denmark