February 19, 2006

Turntable update

I found a Shure M91ED cartridge (sans stylus) in one of my dresser drawers, still in its packaging ($18.50, for the inflation historians among you). I can only assume I bought it and cannibalized the stylus to put into the Shure M75ED cartridge that's currently in the tone arm. That one looks to have part of a stylus broken off inside, so it's a good thing I've got the replacement M91ED. I found a place called Garage-a-records whose service and inventory is fortunately a lot better than their website (the frames! the frames!); I ordered an M91ED stylus from them last Saturday and it arrived yesterday. Now I'm awaiting a replacement belt from Elex Atelier, also ordered last Saturday.

To power this up, I just bought an Onkyo TX-8011. I gave up on having my old Sansui 5500 repaired when the two audio shops I called said "I don't do that" or "It would cost $300-$400 by the time I was done." The Onkyo is a 50 watt-per-channel amp with a phono input and the right kind of speaker connection (spring clips, not banana plugs); that ought to be more than sufficient for the size room I have the system in. It also has a CD input plug and two tape inputs. It'll power the Pioneer 88 speakers just fine.

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