Here is a product that truly delivers well over its price range and how Denon can keep producing this stellar performer for $140.00 is a mystery to me. Great frequecy response and channel separation to die for. Balance,tonality,attack,decay, were spot on. But make no mistake the Denon DL 110 played all the above with a verve to total musicality. I am not going to go into a long narrative and blow by blow description of each album and the resulting findings. Pat Metheny Group - American Garage - (ECM 1-1155)įrederick Fennel - Cleveland Symphonic Winds - (Telarc 5038)Ī few others were used as well, but this gives you the idea of the music used. Sadao Watanabe - Autumn Blow - (Inner City IC 6064ĭoobie Brothers - Minute by Minute - (Warner BSK 3193) Larry Carlton - Friends - (Warner 23834-1) Kenny Burrell & Grover Washington Jr - (Blue Note BT 85106)Įarl Klugh - Finger Painting - (Blue Note MFSL 1-025) Wynton Marsalis - Live Blues Alley - (Columbia PC2-40675)Įric Gale - Forecast - (KUDU Records KU 11)(CTI Records) Rickie Lee Jones - Self Titled - (Warner BSK 3296) Wes Montgomery - Bumpin' - (Verve V6-8625)
John Coltrane - Blue Train - (Blue Note BST 81577) Hiroshima - Self Titled - (Arista MFSL1-525) Listed below are some of the Albums I used to audition or more precise to reaudition with the Denon DL 110.īob James - Hands Down (Columbia FC 38067) As well as several albums I have played that I thought had surface noise,when played by the Denon DL 110, that noise was gone! Due to its diamond shape surface noise is all but non-existent. And when playing used vinyl there is hardly a better performer than the Denon DL 110, it will play vintage vinyl with aplomb, where other and more expensive phono cartridges just give up. The Denon DL 110 has a way of getting into the grooves and extracting the information contained therein with total authority. It does and has that wonderful Denon signature. Now thats value par excellence.īut none of the above would matter, if the DL 110 did not deliver the music. If memory serves me correct these broke onto the market in 1982 or so at about $125.00 retail for the DL 110 and now some 25 years later still in production and the retail price has gone up by $15.00 dollars to $140.00. But it is your money and do spend it as you wish and remember the words of PT Barnum in doing so.īy any standard one would care to judge the venerable Denon DL 110 Moving Coil cartridge,one must agree that for its price point, this is a stellar phono cartridge,that his stood the test of time and continues to impress to this day. In my opinion spending more than $400.00 in a phono cartridge is sheer lunacy. Same with the hardware, turntables over $1,000.00 generally won't perform any better than a $500.00 table and much can be said of phono cartridges as well.
Beware of the new audiophile pressings most are not worth the money spent on them. There have been very few so called audiophile pressings that are worth the money to buy and some are just horrid sonically. Some of the so called new 180 gram and 200 gram pressings are worse in quality than finding a pristine or good used example from years gone by.
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With what we have in analog turntables and software today,with the vast majority of the used LPs to me it just doesn't make sense to spend tons of dollars in this medium,for it is all limited to the source material that is available. And that has held true for well over 30 years.
It is very hard to fault the overall Denon line of phono cartridges and when it comes to price/performance ratio, nothing else even comes close to the sonic superioirty of the Denon line up. Have owned many Denons in the past 47 years in the hobby such as the 103,103D,103S,103R as well as the DL160 and now the DL 110. Oh well, remember fellow audiogon member Ed Kobesky had done a review on its big brother the Denon DL 160 and found that I agreed with him completely on the DL 160. Can't remember where this came from, but was new in box and never open. While delving through my stash of phono cartridges came across this Denon DL 110 high output phono cartridge.
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