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Hi Everyone,
I suppose all of you have noticed the last few years revival of the vinyl records market.As many of you, I have a collection of vinyls and recently wanted to get back that warm, dynamic sound that I grew up with after years with CD's an MP3's.
I started buying B&O stuff in the early 90's and was fortunate enough to buy one of the last Beogram 3300.It hasn't been used much since my main source of music since then has been CD's and then later streaming from iTunes or Spotify, and I always thought the sound from the Beogram 3300 never was especially good in comparison.
A while ago when visiting a friend who is truly an audiophile, he played some music on his old Technics turntable and we compared it to the sound from streaming Spotify via Airplay to a connected Airport Express and Mcintosh amplifiers and Martin Logan speakers. The vinyl player was definitely the winner with it's natural, dynamic sound.
I was inspired to start using my Beogram instead of just having it as a cool design gadget.
Unfortunately, in my setup, the sound from the vinyl is not even close to compressed MP3 files with it comes to dynamic, frequency range.. it sounds muffled and flat. It works, but not enjoyable compared even to streaming media. Since the stylus can lose it's flexibility ( so I have heard) I bought a new MMC4 from Axel at Schallplattennadeln. This just helped marginally, so that wasn't the problem obviously.
The beogram 3300 is connected to an external RIAA box ( no- name, but sold and recommended by my dealer at the time, who has a long experience as B&O dealer), Then connected to the Beolink converter and the Beovision 3 and Beosound 2300 and Beolab 8000 and Beolab 6000 as rears.All seems properly connected and I can even remote control the Beogram.
The sound is not really bad, but its dull, flat and not really enjoyable..
Do yo have any tips and tricks how to pimp up this setup?
Thanks
Peter
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Beovision 7-40 Mk VI, Beovision 3-32, Beovision AV9000, Beovision AV5, Beolab 8000, 6000, 5000, 3000, 2000, Beocenter 2300, 9000, Beocenter 2, DVD1, DVD2, Beogram 3300, LC2, Beolit 12, 3 x AppleTV