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I'm liking the idea of going with a magnetic cartridge and preamp. I have limited experience substituting ceramic for magnetic; in fact, the only instance I've ever done this was on an early 60s Garrard Laboratory turntable and it seemed like the arm would start resonating and the needle hopping grooves due to feedback at the drop of a hat. I figured this was because I had to set up that massive tone arm to such a light weight all that counterbalanced mass sitting in suspension wasn't conducive to the light weight required by the magnetic cart. The tone arm was designed for about 5g pressure or so for the original ceramic cart.
I've just been looking up preamps and it looks like Frys has some Philmores that come with an AC cord already attached for about $16 which would make it easy to splice into the Hi Fi's power switch.
I'll give this a try; I think this might be a good call!
Regarding those powerpoint cartridges.... LOVE THEM! I have a few handfulls of those and they always sound great. Trouble is not having the flip-over mount they are designed to set in... that would be a great solution if I had a matching handfull of mounts!
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