{"id":2904,"date":"2013-12-13T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T11:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2013-12-13T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T11:43:17","slug":"dl103-cartridge-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2013\/12\/13\/dl103-cartridge-review\/","title":{"rendered":"DL103 cartridge review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1416\"<\/a>This may not be any news to most of you, but after a long time I managed to get the upgrade needed on my turntable: the cartridge. The Denon DL103 was a perfect decision to step up into the MC territory at an\u00a0affordable\u00a0cost. Many will say out there that there are better cartridges, but that is not the point of my review.<\/p>\n

I tried some MM ones and until now couldn’t get the Lenco + Audiomods arm to sound as good as it sounds now. The DL103 is challenging due to its low compliance and output levels.
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Although I have a step-up transformer, I’m saving it for my valve phono stage project which I hopefully will get my hands on next year. Currently still have a solid stage RIAA stage made by Project<\/a> which sounds really good in my opinion. Shortly will complete my JFET shunt cascode RIAA stage and listen to the difference.<\/p>\n

Jeff from Audiomods sent me the copper shim for the headshell but my cartridge screws aren’t long enough to fit both. I was worried on the performance by not adding sufficent mass to the arm, but after testing it, I was surprised to see that it was not the case.<\/p>\n

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The sound performance is really good. No loss in bass or treble, with a flat response, the dynamics are brilliant. Noise level is very low. \u00a0Tight drums and clearer sound. I like the detail and even playing loud sections it is great. \u00a0I will continue to listen to this until I can find anything to dislike from it, so far it’s superb.<\/p>\n

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This may not be any news to most of you, but after a long time I managed to get the upgrade needed on my turntable: the cartridge. The Denon DL103 was a perfect decision to step up into the MC territory at an\u00a0affordable\u00a0cost. Many will say out there that there are better cartridges, but that … Continue reading “DL103 cartridge review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[233,449,162],"tags":[409,497,496,406,498,788],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-riaa","category-source","tag-audiomods","tag-denon-dl-103","tag-dl103","tag-lenco","tag-mc-cartridge","tag-turntable"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-KQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2908,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}