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I need a new TT. My budget is $1500, however I do not think spending that amount will be beneficial to me. I proabally will not upgrade for quite some time, so "thinking ahead" does me no good at this point. This is a HUGE purchase for me and for some reason, I am nervous about it... AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!
Mike "use your ears" Z
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A well tempered classic, I have been complentating upgrading from it for 20 years, and it always charms its way back into my heart. I did tweeks on it, it is ultimately tweakable, nothing to break on it that you cannot fix yourself, with the exception of the motor. A used one shows up every once in a while around 1K. It takes loads of patience to set it up though.dee
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
while there are some generic rules of thumb, it can depend a BIT on the type of chassis / isolation.I kind of think that what you CAN 'get away with', siting-wise - oughtta play a BIG role in the decision - Let alone as part of the budget, like sand boxes etc IF needed.
'kay?
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'
Thoughts of "Wilson, Kepple, and Betty" naturally come to mind...
Hell, man - you could get a lot of TT for a lot less in the "pre-owned" market! I would know these things. Spend less and have a nifty table to work with and if you don't like it - you can always sell it for about the same $$$ that you paid. You can't say that about buying a new table.
That's only my opinion. I went to see the ClearAudio Statement locally. You could get that table by only adding another "0" into your budget (In Canuck bucks though).
Too bad you didn't live closer. I could bury you in tables. And not one of them even close to new.BTW - I learned a new word. John Atkinson coined the term back in 1983 and it's used for whack-nuts like me who are all over old vintage gear and Ken Kessler mentioned it in his Sterophile column. Where I saw it.
"Anachrophile."
I'm desperate to find old/vintage audio gear. Heck, I'm desperate to find ANY decent audio.
So I coined "desperaudio" and JA says I'm an "anachrophile"Works for me! See the grin on my face?
jac - desperaudio
I love mine....
I'd go with the Marantz.
I have looked at those on the web. From what I read they
are being made by Clearaudio and are essentially a suped-up
Emotion. I heard an Emotion TT at a local dealer. The tonearm
on the Emotion is nicer than the 1210, but....given it's
design, it would suffer the same problems I had with footfalls
and acoustical feedback on my SOTA. The Marantz version has
different feet which I would hope do a better job than the
cones on the base Emotion model. Don't get me wrong, I like
Marantz products. But considering a price of ~$1500 for the
Marantz versus what the $460 I paid for my 1210M5G, I am
very skeptical that the extra ~$1K will yield that much
improvement. But I have been wrong before.... :-)
If I was going to spend ~$1500 for a TT, I would go with
a used VPI...As my friend once told me..."it's only money, you will make
more tomorrow.."BTW...give me some suggestions for some decent Bi-wire speaker
cables. I like my Cardas cables, but I need to get some that
are a little longer. I need some 10 footers with single bananas
on the amp end and bi-wire spades on the speaker end...
thanks in advance.... Bill
It takes a Stereophile Class "B" cartridge and makes it Class "C".Perhaps as much of a commentary on "Recommended Components" as on the turntable.
Obviously you can't describe this particular condition with the (inherently inaccurate?) description of "digititis"!... :o)IMO ALL purchases are huge, not because of any financial implications, but simply because whichever component is installed into a music environment will very clearly influence the quality of sounds heard, which is naturally the pre-eminent priority...
I sympathise with your situation, but it could always be worse... You could have come to the reluctant conclusion that only the Gaku-On amp (MSRP: $252500.00) would deliver the required music!...
Bill.
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