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In Reply to: RE: So I gotta decide Which Turntable To Listen To For the Next Year.... posted by Mister Pig on October 01, 2015 at 17:38:50
Well , if lace wood matches "decor" why not ..small footprint , good sound . Will the arm take MC carts?
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Its an apartment, and there really is not much of a decor to speak of. Within a year or so we will buy another house, but we need some temporary housing, and the chance to get to know which neighborhoods we want to live in.But turntables are pretty things, and their aesthetics do appeal to me at some level. I find this AR XA to have some classic lines, and I think it would be neat to pair it with something from Leben or Tokyo Sound. But that will be for when the house is done. I could even envision some Klipsch Belle with VTrak horn upgrades from Volti Audio. Hmmmm.
But I do agree with you that the SP 10 MK II needs consideration. I might order a stacked plinth from the builder in Molodova that did the plinth for my TD 124. Which came out quite nice really. He offers a piano black finished one, and if I add a few stacks of material I should get a pretty dead base for it.
The truth is that the SP 10 is an experiment for me. I owned a SP 15 and SP 25 and was underwhelmed by them. I hope the 10 can bring more performance to the table...so to speak. We will see what happens.
But the AR XA is for more casual vinyl spinning. So far I have had mixed results with cartridges on it. My ZYX did not live up to its potential. But the OC 9 III actually sounds very nice on it. I plan on trying the Spirit III on it, but I might run out of time before I got to get to the task of moving the stereo system. Fiddling with audio is not the highest priority at the moment.
Regards
Mister Pig
Edits: 10/01/15
the plinth does make a difference. . The good news is that the Sp10 will play reasonable music bolted to a studio console, as it was designed for that, and is better with a decent plinth. The most important thing you can do is to get the bearing serviced and replace the little plastic pad with a new one. While you are at it you may want to replace the ball as well. It is amazing how well some of them held up for over 30 years, but a new one made form good engineering grade bearing plastics will be much better. Also get the speed adjusted so it is tightly in spec and everything is running as designed. The SP10 is something that people either like or hate. It is far from perfect but it is the best table i ever had, I assume you had all the caps replaced everywhere....
one thing you cannot beat, is the utter convenience of the table, no fuss, put record on hit start and it plays rock solid,
dee
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SP 15/25 are very average TT's . I agree about aesthetics and turntables are addictive . Five is an absolute minimum ...haha. Best of luck with move to a new house.
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