Turntable upgrade?


Just mulling some ideas. Not sure when I can pull it off.

Currently have an Art9 cart on a Music Hall 7.1. It's a decent table but I wonder if it's pulling out all the 9 is capable of? That has been suggested to me on several forums.

What used tables in the $800-2k range would match well with the Art9 and pull more of what it has to offer?
bajaed

Showing 2 responses by mijostyn

Bajaed, Sota owners love their tables because they are beautifully isolated and a joy to use. Nothing bothers them, not foot falls or malet blows. Nothing in the environment gets to your cartridge the result being quite backgrounds that are in no way attainable with even the heaviest fixed table like the VPI classic mentioned above. I know a person who even placed his Kuzma Stabi XL DC on a MinusK platform because he could not get the performance his friend with an SME 30/12 was getting. 
People have this false impression that the heavier a turntable is the better it will perform. Nothing could be further from the truth. Michael Fremer even placed his $100K Continuum on a MinusK platform. The Sota does this for a very small fraction of the cost. If you can see your way through to buying a SOTA you will never feel the need to buy another turntable.
Yes, it would seem that way but, I am just trying to relate the advantages of an isolated turntable. It could be a Basis or SME or a Dohmann. The beauty of the Sota is that it does it at a fraction of the cost of the others and at no loss in other performance factors. It is a nicer turntable to use because the main chassis is contained within the plinth. You can bang the plinth with a hammer without effect, any effect. You can not do that with the other. Thus you can rest your hand on the plinth to cue the record. You have an excellent dust cover that is in no way connected to the main chassis. It's use does not affect sound quality in any detrimental way. Some think it even makes things sound better.