Back in the ‘80s, when I was a student, a friend bought one of the first generation CD players on the market. To my ear there was something cold and unnatural about the resulting sound, and so I did some research into better record players, having a cheap Akai belt-drive at the time. I ended up buying a Rega Planar 3 turntable, did not have enough money for an accompanying new cartridge, so I simply transplanted the old cartridge (an Accutex MM as I recall) to the new ‘table, and without changing a single other thing in my system. I heard things on LPs I thought knew by heart which I had never heard before: background instrumental lines, bass lines, bells, etc.
