I own a Spiral Groove SG 1.1 and an AMG V12, and a Clearaudio Innovation Wood (yes, I have an addiction to turntables).
The SG 1.1 is the highest performing of the bunch as far as resolution, noise floor, etc. I am running a Goldfinger Statement cartridge on it so it is like listening to master tapes -- speakers disappear and large spacious sound stage. The cuing is a love it or hate it proposition as it is not damped (you raise or lower it with your own speed/finger on the cuing mechanism -- so it is natural dampening). The spiral groove looks great and I love the bayonet style tonearm mechanism - ingenious...makes it easy to have multiple tonearms without having all of them mounted at once. The AMG is a bit warmer sounding and has incredible cuing and record clamp out of the bunch. At this level the cartridge and quality of recording will be the bigger difference in sound than the tonearm and table I believe.
The SG 1.1 is the highest performing of the bunch as far as resolution, noise floor, etc. I am running a Goldfinger Statement cartridge on it so it is like listening to master tapes -- speakers disappear and large spacious sound stage. The cuing is a love it or hate it proposition as it is not damped (you raise or lower it with your own speed/finger on the cuing mechanism -- so it is natural dampening). The spiral groove looks great and I love the bayonet style tonearm mechanism - ingenious...makes it easy to have multiple tonearms without having all of them mounted at once. The AMG is a bit warmer sounding and has incredible cuing and record clamp out of the bunch. At this level the cartridge and quality of recording will be the bigger difference in sound than the tonearm and table I believe.