Good evening all,
I finally have collected everything, more or less, to put together a working quad system. i have a Marantz 4270, and both the SQ board and the outboard CD-4 decoder. I also have a Sansui QRX-7001. I have a Dual 1229Q and also a Technics SL-1650 (will the latter work? I'm hoping it would.) The one thing I'm missing is a cartridge. I know previously the go-to new cartridge was the AT440ML and the a and b versions thereof. That's been discontinued for a couple years now, and searching to see if anyone's tried its replacement, the VM540ML, or its big brother the VM740ML, to see if either of those will reliably work for CD-4. Does anyone have any input please? I've been working a lot of OT recently and I can now justify buying a new cartridge, but I can't justify the prices of these ones if they won't give me a functionality that I don't already have
I finally have collected everything, more or less, to put together a working quad system. i have a Marantz 4270, and both the SQ board and the outboard CD-4 decoder. I also have a Sansui QRX-7001. I have a Dual 1229Q and also a Technics SL-1650 (will the latter work? I'm hoping it would.) The one thing I'm missing is a cartridge. I know previously the go-to new cartridge was the AT440ML and the a and b versions thereof. That's been discontinued for a couple years now, and searching to see if anyone's tried its replacement, the VM540ML, or its big brother the VM740ML, to see if either of those will reliably work for CD-4. Does anyone have any input please? I've been working a lot of OT recently and I can now justify buying a new cartridge, but I can't justify the prices of these ones if they won't give me a functionality that I don't already have