Since I ordered the Beatles mono box set today, I started giving some serious consideration to adding another tonearm and a mono cartridge to my SP-10 MKII. I have some questions for those that have already been down this road and thus the purpose of my post:
1. How are you guys using the existing cable that comes with a tonearm that is designed for stereo cartridges? Are you shorting out one pair of the cartridge pin connectors and then using a Y adapter on the remaining signal cable to run the mono signal into both sides of your phono section?
2. Do you have a phono preamp that has two sets of inputs that are switchable or do you run two separate phono preamps into different inputs on your preamp?
I want a setup that doesn't cost a zillion dollars because, well, I don't have a zillion dollars. I also don't want something that is terribly inconvenient like having a single phono preamp with a single set of phono inputs that has to have one set of cables removed when switching from the mono arm to the stereo arm and then all of the phono settings changed (gain/loading). That would be a huge pain in the ass and would cause you not to be bothered with it which defeats the purpose of sinking some money into the capability.
All thoughts from experienced users would be appreciated.
1. How are you guys using the existing cable that comes with a tonearm that is designed for stereo cartridges? Are you shorting out one pair of the cartridge pin connectors and then using a Y adapter on the remaining signal cable to run the mono signal into both sides of your phono section?
2. Do you have a phono preamp that has two sets of inputs that are switchable or do you run two separate phono preamps into different inputs on your preamp?
I want a setup that doesn't cost a zillion dollars because, well, I don't have a zillion dollars. I also don't want something that is terribly inconvenient like having a single phono preamp with a single set of phono inputs that has to have one set of cables removed when switching from the mono arm to the stereo arm and then all of the phono settings changed (gain/loading). That would be a huge pain in the ass and would cause you not to be bothered with it which defeats the purpose of sinking some money into the capability.
All thoughts from experienced users would be appreciated.