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In Reply to: RE: New turntable decision posted by scottcw on August 29, 2016 at 08:32:47
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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Will have to respectfully disagree here, though I have no horse in the race. I owned a Scoutmaster and, while the sound was very clean and had some nice weight to it, I ultimately found it lacking in rhythmic drive and musical vibrancy (I had the same problem with other VPI turntables I've owned). Also, I often got an electrical pop from the tonearm junction box which once blew out an amplifier channel. The Rega sound is all about rhythmic momentum (PRAT, if you will, even though I hate the jargon, perhaps at the expensive of some bass weight and low-level detail.That said, if I had a 2k budget I'd look on the used market for something higher up the line, and thereby hopefully keep the upgrade bug in its est a little longer.
Edits: 08/29/16
Fair enough. Of course there were several versions of the Scoutmaster with different platter materials , suspension feet or cones etc. My friend's is the version with thick acrylic platter and cone feet.
I have to say that having spent many happy hours listening to it I haven't been aware of any lack of rhythmic ability or vibrancy. Maybe it was down to the choice of cartridge in the JMW 9 arm? My friend has a Lyra Skala installed. In fact so good did the Skala sound that I went and bought one. What were you using?
I think that the Rega is a good turntable but the OP's posting appeared to rule it out for his tastes unless heavily modified.
Completely agree - the Scout was one of the worst TT I ever owned - fussy and not worth the effort - to the OP buy a Rega and forget about it - then listen to music not the gear!
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