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


Hi - looking into getting me a Kid Thomas TT with the external power supply.  I've read reviews but wanted to hear from some of the owners before I made the commitment.  Thanks in advance.
rdk777

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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.