Pear Audio's Kid Thomas Owners - What is your experience?

Did you get the kid Thomas. Do you like it?

It was good - I enjoyed listening to it while I had it.  I got more interested in tonearms like the Kuzma 4P (I thought the 9 inch version would work well w/ the Kid Thomas) and Reed 3P, but didn't have the knowledge to do it myself.  I didn't get support from the mfr that claimed that the Cornet arm and the Kid Thomas were designed as a whole system and that any other combo would not be recommended.  So I traded it in for a Kuzma Stabi R and 4P tonearm. For a $10k table/arm (retail), I'd say it performed well above tables in the same price range. Extremely quiet and well designed - I thought it was a good looking table. There are tons of reviews out there from top reviewers which you can Google - Fremmer has reviewed it for Stereophile and preferred it over the Palmer table (I'm paraphrasing), which is similar in design.  If I could've installed better (subjective) or different tonearms -  I'd have kept it. I used the Dynavector XV-1S and ZYX Universe II carts w/ the table.

Nottingham Analog used to say exactly the same about their tables and arms.

Plenty of members have swapped out arms on NA tables with excellent results.

I would likely have changed the arm and see what happened.
But good luck with the kuzma.

I used to be a dealer for Pear Audio.  I had a couple of customers that wanted to use tonearms w/ removeable headshells.  No problem.

If you use a tonearm of the same geometry (length) and can be center post mounted, you can find a way to adapt the stock arm puck.  If you need something different Pear Audio will drill a custom arm puck for you.  As I recall it takes approx. 3 weeks as they come Slovenia but it's not too expensive.  You are pretty much limited to 9"-10" length tonearms on the Kid Thomas.  If you wanted to use a transcription-length arm you could consider making an offboard weighted pillar.