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Turntable upgrade, tweaks, or stay put?

I have a music hall mmf-7, stock with goldring eroica and project speed box. Rest of system: Wilson audio Sophias, Musical fidelity KW 500, Musical fidelity Trivista DAC, and Musical fidelity CD player. I really enjoy the mmf7 and have no real complaints. However, I know it is the weakest link in my system. I wonder how much better it could be. Do you think I would have to spend $5-6000 or more on a new tt to get significantly better sound? Any recommendations? Or would some tweaks be smarter? Or just save my money and buy more records? Thanks in advance. As I said, I like my mmf7, but wonder if I am missing out by not having something of similar quality to the rest of my system.
arsh
arsh OP
309 posts
 
I have the clamp that comes with the table, but no scale or protractor. You think some adjustments could make a big difference? I had the table set up by a pretty good dealer.
saki70
853 posts
 
I too , would be interested in your view of the clamp .

Happy Tunes
dhcod
397 posts
 
Is your phono pre built into the KW500? The best bang for your money would be a good tubed phono preamp.
arh
366 posts
 
You say you have no compaints. So what do you feel is missing sound wise. I do not know how good the phono stage in your integrated is but a separate outboard phono stage might improve things. Yes you good buy a Pricier VPI or Clear audio turntable and upgrade the cartridge but you are correct that you will have to spend some serious money. Do you primarily listen to vinyl or are you basically a digital guy?
Alan
dougdeacon
3,338 posts
 
Some tweaks might help, but in the end you're right that your vinyl rig is weak compared to your digital setup.

I've found that to do vinyl as well as good digital requires a larger investment. My universal disc player retails for $6K and it's quite good. OTOH, my TT, tonearm, cartridge and phono stage would retail for a combined $25K+. Now they're well beyond "quite good", but even to match the $6K digital player would probably cost at least twice as much.

Should you do that or buy more LPs? Only you can decide that. If there's music on LP you're dying to hear, buy it. OTOH, if you really wouldn't enjoy it on your present rig, upgrade that and add LPs as you can. It's a personal decision no one but you can make. :-)

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