I LOVE NAD.

LOVE NAD.

- I am EXTREMELY pleased with the NAD preamp - very quiet and all natural sound reproduction/amplification - RECOMMEND NAD HIGHLY, AS HIGH AS THE STARS ALLOW.

One of my favorite records is a Direct to Disc recording at 45 rpm of Beethoven's Passionata.

This was a superior presentation to one of his Greatest Hits records released on Capitol

This cartridge puts life in my old 70's LP and make them sound better than I remembered, but it doesn't seem to play wellwith really well recorded LPs.

Loves a medium/Heavy Mass Tonearm

You will not hear everything this cartridge has to offer until you give it the proper arm to come alive in and it comes alive with an arm of decent mass.

Wanted this for quite a while and finally ordered it when the price unexpectedly dropped well below $300.

Excellent price from Web Marketing Direct for this already great bargain

I've compared exotic cables with decent quality low priced cables and couldn't hear any differences

Do yourself a favor and buy this cartridge, especially if you already have a phono input capable of handling a moving coil cartridge.

Linn Sondek LP12, rega RB300 arm, 2.5g tracking weight, Audible Illusion Modulus 3A preamp with gold phono board.

I have mine going into step up transformers from K&K and from there into a fully compatible phono stage from Jolida (JD-109) which gives control over loading for IMPEDENCE, CAPACITENCE AND GAIN.

Like just plain music.

Guests enjoy the music more now

and back then radio stations had those HUGE record transcription players with solid wood arms that weighed a ton

You will not hear everything this cartridge has to offer until you give it the proper arm to come alive in and it comes alive with an arm of decent mass.

I am using Teac turntable that has an adjustable tone arm weight and anti skate

I decided to buy this cartridge after seeing several positive reviews about it on the internet.

OK, all the reviews here that wax poetic about this as an all time audio value are TRUE

The detail and tracking are incredible - you will never care that it has a conical stylus

It has great detail and articulation throughout the frequency spectrum

The vocals seem a little off and the bass is not as articulate, but this is nit picking in comparison to another much more expensive cartridge.

The bass is very satisfying too.

There is powerful deep bass!

Neil young's voice is haunting on some of the old records, my old Rush is pounding with Geddy's bass, but all the singer/ songwriter stuff I play is nice and delicate and intimate

So you can forget about it within a few minutes of listening and simply enjoy how "magical" this thing sounds.

Linn Sondek LP12, rega RB300 arm, 2.5g tracking weight, Audible Illusion Modulus 3A preamp with gold phono board.

And dog whistle treble is important but not the MOST important thing in your playback hierarchy.

The 103R sounds much like the 103 (a good thing), but is better at extracting detail smoothly from my LP's.

This cartridge with my GFP555 has incredible gain

Linn Sondek LP12, rega RB300 arm, 2.5g tracking weight, Audible Illusion Modulus 3A preamp with gold phono board.

Note that this is a low output moving coil - you will need an MC preamp with decent gain or a step-up transformer with a 1:40 turns ratio.

Linn Sondek LP12, rega RB300 arm, 2.5g tracking weight, Audible Illusion Modulus 3A preamp with gold phono board.

I've had this cartidge in my Oracle Mark II turntable about a week, and immediately was drawn to it's relaxed, smooth, attractive renderings of my new 180 gram records