Wise move, Sell the whole shooting match. The Clearaudio is a good turntable for the money. I actually prefer the Thorens TD1600. It is suspended and isolated and has a very decent tonearm. It is also $1K less expensive so you can spend more on a cartridge:-)
New Arm or New TT and arm?
I've been listening to a VPI HW19 11 turn
table with the Eminent Technology 11 air bearing tone arm for the last
thirty-two years, but I am now shopping for something new because I am
fed up with piddling with the ET arm. Plan A is to put a new pivoted
arm on the old VPI. Plan B is a new table and tone arm, possibly the
Clearaudio Performance DC Wood with the Tracer arm. If anyone has any
suggestions regarding the best pivoted arm to put on the VPI or comments
re: the Clearaudio table or alternatives to it I would appreciate
reading them.