This is it. This massive fight. This shoot-out between two tasty new decks at the $1k region.
The most reputable deck at the $1k price with a long history of trusted winning sound, the P3 from Rega, meets its toughest competitor, the StudioDeck from MoFi!!
I bought the P3 in Sept 2017, the SD in June 2018.
**-*- Both decks are runned in and auditioned with the same Goldring 1006, Nagaoka MP-150 and MP-200 cartridges, with the brilliant Schiit Mani phonostage.
***-- Also, to make sure that the Rega P3 with its captive quality "Low Capacitance High Quality" shielded phono cable, doesn't have an unfair advantage over the StudioDeck using a stock run-of-the-mill phono cable, or on the reverse: that the StudioDeck doesn't profit unfairly from me fitting on a Shunyata Python or Zonotone 7NSP-Neo Grandio 07Hi phono cable, I have bought and purposely fitted on the same Rega quality "low capacitance high performance" phono cable onto the StudioDeck.
Cost of Rega phono cable = $120.
***-- Both decks have their tonearm base height raised to ensure that all cartridges are aligned to Stylus Rake Angle range of 91.5-92degrees.
Cost of Rega original spacers = $80.
**-*- All cartridges aligned to the same Lofgren curve using the Dr Feickert NG Protractor.
OUTCOME!!! :-D :
It is a tie. Barring the deep bass performance, the StudioDeck matches the P3 in ALL sonic parameters. The StudioDeck showing much better manufacturing finesse.
Enjoy the review Friends and Buddies!!!!
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hall:
- avid sequel sp with sme v tonearm, technics sl1200gae
- croft riaa rs with nos mullard, philips and GE tubes, avid pulsare2, schiit mani (phonostages)
- vitus ri-101(received June 2018), b&w 804d.
- ancillaries: shunyata hydra triton, cobra and python zitron cabling
- rack: solid tech hybrid
room components:
- technics sl1200g, icon audio ps1mk2, leben cs300xs with 2× nos mullard ecc83 M8137and 4× harma cryo-treated burst-tested e84Ls, audionote an-k/Lx.
other components at home :-):
technics sl1200mk2, sl1200mk5,
rega p1, project debut carbon dc, audiotechnica at-lp120, project primary, teac tn-300,
[sony ps-hx500 (recently sold)]
analog-to-digital conversion done for files used in video production:
- schiit JIL.
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Referencing tracks:
Bass - Clean Bandit's "Dust Clears"
Treble - Art Blakey's "Noise in the Attic" (MusicMatters pressing)
Midrange - Melody Gardot's "Baby I'm a Fool" and "If the Stars were Mine"
Guitar - Doug MacLeod's "Black Night"
Vocal - Natalie Merchant's "St. Andreas Fault" (MoFi pressing)
Vocal - Stevie Wonder's "Too Shy to Say" (MoFi pressing)
Brasswinds - Stanley Turrentine's "I Want a Little Girl" (MusicMatters pressing)
Orchestra - Eiji Oue 's Rachmaninoff on ReferenceRecordings.
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