Brinkmann vs TW Acustic

Peterayer,
The whole post is Brinkmanship, you just have to look at it with a sense of humour. I suspect the Brinkmann owners are busy listening to music.

The funny thing is nobody seems to get the point that Dev had a Raven or 3, went to an old Micro. Do the Raven owners club seriously think someone would upgrade to a turntable that sounds worse ?

Same with Syntax, he can obviously afford a Raven, if it was better than what he has he'd buy it.

Halcro -
Yes I do agree with you. I have seen some audiophiles go complete circles in TT's, finally ending up where they started.
Unfortunately analogue is a "sum of the parts" scenario, and I have seen too many mismatched TT's/arms/cartridges, notwithstanding poor set up from even experienced audiophiles such that dissatisfaction sets in. What happens is they "upgrade" but the cycle of discontent from mismatching and poor set up starts all over again.

I had an interesting experience years ago - when calibrating a Townsend power supply ( checking internal voltages, bias etc ) the sound opened up considerably. Smoother, more natural, much larger sound stage. There was no measurable change in speed. The improved sound was purely down to running the power supply at the correct voltages internally - changes of about 0.1-0.3 of a volt.
The change in sound was like going from an Audio Technica $500 MC to a Koetsu Black - it was not subtle.