#Project debut carbon no sounds upgrade#

Tried disconnecting and reconnecting the cable running from my preamp to the Sonos Give.

Tried streaming Spotify audio from my phone to the Sonos Five (this played fine, suggesting the problem isn't with the speaker).Tried lightly brushing my turntable needle with my system powered on to see if I'd hear the noise through my speaker that I'd expect to (I didn't).Tried pugging in an alternate audio source into the pre-amp (this didn't produce sound either).Replaced input cable between preamp and Sonos Five.Replaced phono cables between turntable and preamp.I'm not sure where in this chain the issue is - eg, needle, turntable, cables, pre-amp, speaker - and I've done the following to try to trouble shoot: It's been ~5 days since I last used my setup, and it had been working great up until this morning. Substantially more than $20 off of eBay but it did eliminate any acoustical issue I was having with my turntable rig.I went to play LPs this morning on the setup I put together this May, consisting of a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo (stock needle) + Schiit Mani pre-amp + Sonos Five. They were somewhere between $10 to $20 for a package of four off of Amazon. Ultimately I ended up with a Townshend Audio Seismic platform. The pads I bought were about a 1/2' thick piece of cork sandwiched between two pieces of rubber. I was able to mitigate it quite a bit by purchasing some ant-vibration pads. This was an issue I had about a year ago. The Bass is prominent and not ’tight’This could be your cartridge picking up secondary vibrations from the bass being transmitted into your room from your speakers with those vibrations being picked up by your stand, turntable and tonearm and then being picked up by the cartridge and resent through your system. Some tracks sound good and others not so much.This makes me think that the issue is the source material itself unless as was stated the bad tracks are always at the beginning or the end or in the middle of the record which would then indicate a setup issue. Google it and you will easily find what other people think about those cartridges, nothing can beat them at this price, none of the modern MM/MI cartridges can be even close to those 4 If you want something very special try this. In my opinion this is the best you can get, read more about it.Īnd alternative choice from my collection of Grace is this one. I’m willing to spend up to you asked for the links:

#Project debut carbon no sounds upgrade#

Please recommend a new cartridge upgrade via link! And it must be a cartridge with MID compliance to match your tonearm properly. It must be a cartridge with the best possible cantilever, something comparable to very expensive Boron, it is very rare Beryllium! Advanced stylus life span is 1200 hrs (MicroLine), your conventional stylus life span is only 500 hrs (Elliptical) or 300 hrs (Conical). It must be a cartridge with the most advanced stylus profile if you want deep bass and extended highs that you can compare to your digital rig. It must be MM or MI cartridge, because you don’t have an appropriate MC phono stage or SUT or Headamp for use with LOMC (Low Output MC). Different settings will give you almost nothing, but a better cartridge will be huge improvement for sure. Also this cartridge is pre-installed by Pro-Ject and everything must be already 'perfect' since the manufacturer decided to use this cartridge on their tonearm. You can’t improve the sound of the cheap Ortofon M2 Red cartridge playin’ with settings, the stylus of this cartridge is less sensitive to settings, It’s conventional Elliptical profile. Another cartridge withing your budget can be AT-ML150 OCC with Beryllium cantilever and MicroLine stylus tip, modern Audio-Technica cartridges does not have beryllium cantilevers anymore. Seriously, you can’t get anything like that today at the same price.

To keep the price low, but not to miss exotic cantilevers and best ever diamonds, you’d be better with vintage MM or MI. Interesting that Pickering even made a version of the same cartridge with slightly lower compliance for mid mass tonearms, the model number was XSV-3000SP. It was $350 cartridge with Stereohedron stylus, it’s equal to Pickering XSV-3000 model. You can upgrade everything, but cartridge is first and only component that actually touch your record, it depends how you can extract music from the grooves and this is all about cartridge and stylus.Ī close friend of mine replaced his Ortofon M2 Red on similar turntable with Stanton 881s mk2 and he was shocked.

It is more complicated, but in general a high compliance and light moving mass is a benefit. In my opinion when people compare analog to digital they are often missing frequency extension and clarity, this is clearly cartridge responsibility and stylus profile is the most important along with the cantilever.