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RE: New turntable decision

I am not able to answer your question as directly as you may wish but I hope that I can add something.

If you are looking at a Rega Planar 3 but then fit all of the Groovetracer aftermarket parts it seems to me that you no longer really have what you started with. So why start with that in the first place? I think you are thinking along these lines already.

I do hear, not a Scout, but its bigger brother, a Scoutmaster, very regularly. I think that the Scoutmaster is an excellent turntable which offers much of what everyone wants. It comes with an arm that performs incredibly well and which is able to support cartridges well beyond its price range. So I am going to guess that the Scout has a major percentage of the Scoutmaster's performance so it is a good choice.

I spent several hours earlier in the year listening to various models from the Clearaudio range. Unsurprisingly they all had a similar house sound. This seemed partly to do with the carbon fibre/magnetic bearing arms they sport. I found them all to be excessively "polite" with transient or impulse sounds compressed. However the arm for the Concept (if it is selected)is not quite the same as those on the more expensive turntables so I could be wrong for this model.

Audiomeca Romance? No way. The company is out of business and the turntable design is both quirky and, apparently, easily develops faults. No support is offered of course. Even when it was in business, Pierre Lurne (the designer) was not noted for answering emails seeking assistance. Spares unavailable. Just Google it and see what you come up with.

So , given your choices, I would be running to get the VPI.


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