I lived with a HW19 jr through MKIV with an ET 2.5 for over 20 years. I experienced many noticeable positive sonics with tweeks on the tt. I ultimately realized the tt base was too resonant to overcome to provide the level of musical pleasure I wanted with these tweeks. I'd go with another tt/arm.
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.