Recent content by Static Shock

It will interesting to understand what is up , is the UltraDeck also being updated or replaced ?

Take time to enjoy the music . Members on the forum have lot of experience and opinions on the various cartridges that work on the deck and I'm sure you will be hearing from them .

Like other forum members have said , welcome to the group . I see you are already well down the rabbit hole of new components and no one has found the cure yet or a ladder to climb out .

Old school here with a phono stage built into my Conrad Johnson PV 10 tube preamp that I purchased as a demo in the early 90,s and retubed a couple of times . When it's cold you can warm your hands with the heat given off by the 4 tubes.

That's very good advice you are giving yourself:cool:

Tinker first , sell last . Like Renpar61 suggested , I also have some records that have a lot of noise no matter how clean . Compilations can be notorious for varying sound quality related to recording source . Oh the joy of listening.

In my system I upgraded all the interconnects , power cables , wall sockets and isolation first and found a major improvement . I decided to stop at that point as the ears are getting older .

My suggestion, take a deep breath and enjoy it for awhile before doing anything . In my system, my volume never gets past 1/8th due to the nature of the system . At a volume level my wife allows I do not hear any rumble between songs , but again I do not tend to crank the system up to much ...

It does look nice .

From everyone's comments it appears that the Fender deck is the ultra deck with a fancy top .

A question , is the Fender deck , functionally the same as the Ultradeck ?

Welcome aboard, buying and selling not a habit I can afford and sounds like a lot of work . I don't mind a bit of tweaking, .

Cost of the 1210G in Canada is 6K Canadian , too rich for me .

I do the same think , also using a small humidistat in about the same level as you note . I have rug floors and without the humidifier running in the winter its shock city . This winter, not some much, as the temps have been warmer then normal and lots of rain and not snow .

I agree I run a small humidifier in the room with the TT in winter . Also I clean with a squeaky clean record cleaner that helps .