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Lovely!! [I am a fellow Linn owner, so considerable bias here!!]

I would be curious about how you find the AT OCS cart compared with others that you may have owned.

Some nice rays of sunshine I a listening room always help the ambience.

Ah lovely indeed :)

I used to own an ATOC5 mc cartridge once on the exact same set up as your own. A brilliant Ian Rankin review convinced me to get it :) It was a lovely cartridge too but the sheer hassle of getting it retipped didn't appeal at all so for better or worse I went back to the moving magnets.....which obviously don't have that certain delicacy that mc's have in spades. Much like, I suppose, the difference between ribbon and dome tweeters....

fergus wrote:Lovely!! [I am a fellow Linn owner, so considerable bias here!!]

I would be curious about how you find the AT OCS cart compared with others that you may have owned.

I'm very pleased with the Audio Technica Fergus. The turntable dates from 1986 but I've only had it for a few years. It was supplied to me with a Supex SM100 moving magnet cartridge which was very good. My first LP12 (going back to 1979) had a Grace G707 and Supex SD900 Super. It was fabulous! So detailed and fast. Unfortunately I managed to snap the cantilever and opted for a Linn Asak (made by Supex I believe). It had much the same character as the 900 with that same sense of attack and precision. I sold the lot in the mid 80's. Fast forward 30 odd years!... I fitted the AT cartridge, replacing the Supex MM and ran it through a Dynavector P75 III with superb results. A great tracker, sufficient mass for the Ittok arm and music wise - just plain versatile! It doesn't reveal as the 900 or Asak did, but then it's a quarter of the price. T

Terry wrote: I'm very pleased with the Audio Technica Fergus. The turntable dates from 1986 but I've only had it for a few years. It was supplied to me with a Supex SM100 moving magnet cartridge which was very good. My first LP12 (going back to 1979) had a Grace G707 and Supex SD900 Super. It was fabulous! So detailed and fast. Unfortunately I managed to snap the cantilever and opted for a Linn Asak (made by Supex I believe). It had much the same character as the 900 with that same sense of attack and precision. I sold the lot in the mid 80's. Fast forward 30 odd years!... I fitted the AT cartridge, replacing the Supex MM and ran it through a Dynavector P75 III with superb results. A great tracker, sufficient mass for the Ittok arm and music wise - just plain versatile! It doesn't reveal as the 900 or Asak did, but then it's a quarter of the price. T

Thank you for that Terry.

Very nice photo and lovely looking LP12. I coveted one back in the day but my funds were directed to more mundane things
as I had what I mistakenly believed was a top notch Pioneer rack system.

tony wrote:Very nice photo and lovely looking LP12. I coveted one back in the day but my funds were directed to more mundane things
as I had what I mistakenly believed was a top notch Pioneer rack system.

Cheers Tony. It was a really beautiful morning with the low light streaming in.