What you like to take your turntable and the fidelity of your vinyl playback to a new level?
Music To My Ear has done the "heavy lifting," allowing you to achieve this heightened quality by bundling together a Denon DL-103R Moving Coil Cartridge, the proper headshell depending on your needs, and a Pro-Ject Audio Step-Up Transformer. With these four items in concert, you'll have all you need to help your vinyl sound better than ever before!
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DENON DL-103R SPECIFICATIONS
The DL-103R is the evolved and reengineered version of Denon's original Moving Coil Cartridge. Designed to bring all your vinyl favorites to life for years to come.
Why Use a Step-Up Transformer?
Once upon a time, step-up transformers were all but required for the optimal handling of a low output MC cartridge’s signal. Active amplification technology was simply too noisy back then (defeating the purpose of the low output design). A step-up transformer removes active amplification from the equation & passively boosts the signal the old-fashioned way. Operating entirely apart from mains power, it’s an opportunity to silently add 21 or 24dB, which amounts to an output that’s comparable to MM cartridges (this is why a step-up transformer’s output is connected to an MM phono preamp input). Needless to say, modern active amplification has improved by leaps & bounds. MC phono preamps can apply all the necessary gain without inducing excessive noise levels… yet there remains a niche population of critical listeners who continue to swear by the performance of the step-up transformer. It’s just a different approach that, pending your low output cartridge and MM preamp, may be just what you’re after!
Designed & Handmade in Europe
The Pro-Ject Step-Up Box S3 is carefully designed and handmade in Europe. Their goal is to develop a technically flawless device in a housing that is only as big as necessary. Due to the timeless design & rigid aluminum chassis, the MC Step Up Box S3 is built to last an eternity. With high-quality materials & components and a well-thought-out design, Pro-Ject brings the concept of MC step-up transformers back into the conversation.