![]() An analog revival for the well-heeled few is no analog revival at all. For most of us, dropping a thousand dollars on an analog front-end is the limit. ![]() I like reading about Porsche Carrera 4s, and I thumb through the Victoria's Secret catalog, but.īack in the real world, there are car payments and mortgages. Let me backtrack: It's fun playing with $3000 cartridges, $2500 arms, and $6000 turntables, and I hope that, even if you can't afford such exotica, you at least enjoy reading about it. I was figuratively wrong and literally correct. When I started my comparison of four reasonably priced arm/'table combos a few weeks ago, the last thing I thought I'd be doing during the process was playing with expensive cartridges. Were they big differences? Not nearly as immense as I thought they'd be. I played a British Polydor pressing of Roxy Music's song "Avalon," then played it again on the $9000 TNT Mk.3/ Immedia RPM combo using a $3800 Transfiguration Temper cartridge. The last thing I did before sitting down to write this column was run an $1895 Lyra Clavis DC phono cartridge on a $650 Rega Planar 3 turntable. Michael Fremer wrote about the Rega in December 1996 (Vol.19 No.12):
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