Is it worth upgrading my current turntable setup?

my friends LT-22 has been here competing with my 3 arm setup for over a week. I put my nearly new AT440ML cartridge on it with Microline Stylus. Sounds terrific.

It’s one of the easiest TT you could own, and use.

Adjusting the arm, mounting the cartridge is pretty easy, I could help you thru it.

No anti-skate needed. No two null points to align with.

Easy arm height adjustment

Easy balance, accurate tracking weight scale.

On, start, walk away, plays, returns, stops spinning.

Up, move arm manually, play any specific track with hands free scratch free no needle drop damage assurance.

Here’s a very nice LT-20

 

That cartridge will sound better on this TT IMO.

Yes, get thee a better Turntable, and move that nice cartridge to it.

Alignment Skills. To effectively move cartridges and/or change headshells without hesitation, you need a few inexpensive tools and skills. Factory/Seller/Friend/Yourself. You will benefit for the rest of your life if you learn to do this yourself.

That table is a terrific TT to start with, to find out if you will stick with Vinyl. AT120 also, a good beginner, it costs less.

You already have an advanced stylus cartridge, so you are getting the most you can from that TT, time to move up.

THINK LONG, NOW

A heavier Plinth, A heavier platter, and what arm(s)?

I prefer quartz locked direct drive. I chose JVC Victor 7 layer plinth.

I prefer 2 (or 3) arms ready to go (I play a lot of jazz mono lps), to swap cartridges/arms instantaneously during a listening session. MC Stereo; MM Stereo replaceable stylus; MM Mono. SUT with 3 selectable inputs.

Single Arm: at least a removable headshell with alternate cartridges pre-mounted.

Headshell with Azimuth adjustment IF the arm fitting isn’t ’right on’.

Arm Height Adjustment: VTA on the Fly is nice for perfectionists, but when changing headshells: Easy Height Adjustment is what’s important

my long arm has 2 nastily hidden allen screws, forget it.

rear arm is wonderful Acos Lustre GST-801. Easiest height adjustment ever. Their GST-1 is also easy arm height adjust, but a more complicated sliding base cutout is required.

Technics Height adjustable base accepts two alternate arms: straight/fixed cartridge or s shape removable headshell. I just installed one for a friend

 

 

here it is with the straight arm on a technics plinth with SP-15

 

the sp15 also plays 78s and has amazing specs like their other models.

Some automatic features? Linear Tracking?

Some Linear Tracking Turntables have ’real’ arms and removable headshells which take ’real’ cartridges (many lightweight linear tt’s have small arms with P mount cartridges. My garage/shot turntable is one, Technics SL-J33).

I just found this Mitsubishi LT-22 for a friend (scroll down the page)

 

S/N 78db. LT-20 has s/n 75db

https://stereonomono.blogspot.com/search?q=lt-20

 

I have the vertical version, LT-5V, belt drive, the LT-30, 22, 20 are ql direct drive

A more solid plinth and platter will yield more solid bass and all fundamentals of any frequency will be more firmly begun, then overtones, time decay all synergistically work together in an improved way.