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Hello All,

I just recently purchased a creek obh 9 mc phono stage at my dads request for his turntable assembly. To his mistake he found out his shure v15 IV is a mm phono cartridge. He finds the sound bad which is no suprise. He is considering possibly replacing the cartridge or just selling the phono stage for the creek obh 8. Does anyone think it would be worthwhile or even possible to find a MC cartridge of better quality than the shure v15 IV for $75-$150 new. Or would it just be better to just get the mm phonostage.

Thanks in advance
krazeeyk
dougdeacon
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Carl and Rene,
The Denon 103 is a great suggestion, though even further over budget than the Shure, but I would be somewhat surprised if the TT in question has an arm that could handle it.

I'm just guessing of course, as we all are. Krazeeyk are you still around?
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marakanetz
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Wake up folks,
DL103 with Creek???
dougdeacon
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Not enough gain? (Don't know Creek).
krazeeyk OP
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Hi All,

Sorry for the delay. My dads turntable and Tonearm assembly is a Dual 622 direct drive. He just has the stock tone arm.

Thanks for all of the wonderful suggestions
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restock
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Why not a DL103 with a Creek? Last time I checked I used the 100 Ohm setting (same as Creek) on my Trichord Dino and the gain of the Creek should be good enough as well. The Creek is not as fast and detailed as say the Dino or a Lehmann Black cube, but I guess it won't be too bad.Do you know any other MC at a $150 that can beat the DL103, even connected to a Creek?

Of course for the Dual arm I'm not really sure that the DL103 will be a good match. At that point I would maybe get the OBH 8 instead.

Rene
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