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TT Recommendation
My current system consist of a Pro-Ject 2Xperience TT with Ortofon 2M Silver cart, Mcintosh MA5300 being used as a preamp, Mcintosh MC462 power amp and B&W 802D3 speakers. I'm looking to upgrade the TT and looking for recommendations. I thought that I had narrowed my search down to the Rega P8 or VPI Prime 21 but yesterday someone told me that I should include the Feickert Volare as well.
What are your thoughts of the three I've listed here. Are there others that I should be looking at? My budget including cart is around $5,500 - $6,000.
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@mijostyn The suspended table is the Motus IIDQ and the little brother is the Motus DQ which is the same drive/bearing/platter but housed in an unsuspended plinth.
As to tonearms either table can be ordered to accomodate 12" tonearms. The unsuspended table can be ordered for double tonearms ( 9" + 12" ) however the nature of the counterweighted suspension on the ’IIDQ’ dictates one arm only.
On RARE occasion a tonearm will be too heavy for the ’IIDQ’ suspension to calibrate correctly- One example is the Kuzma 4pt14 which is just slightly too heavy ( overall weight not effective mass ) so my client with a 4pt14 and Koetsu Blue Lace went with the Motus DQ instead...which is no slouch.
Thanks for asking :) |
Thanks for all of the recommendations here. Some really nice options unfortunately a couple of them mentioned are above my budget. One of them about double my budget. As of right now I think I'm going to go with the Rega P8, with the Apheta 3 cart and Aria preamp. That will be a huge upgrade over what I currently have and still be below my budget. To equip the Prime 21 like I would really want with MC and a phono preamp would put me around $7500.
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@solypsa , I will only use a suspended table and am not interested in two arms. Do you know what frequency the suspension is tuned to? |
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