Well Tempered Amadeus turntable, giant killer?

Lewm, good advice, although, the Amadeus is quite different (for the better) than the WT Reference. Tell your friend to go have a listen.

While I've always thought the VPI arms were their weak link, I doubt a WTL arm would help. Conversely, it seems the strength of the Amadeus is the table and arm together. That's how Firebaugh worked on it, so it would make sense.

Lewm, your last paragraph made me stop and think.
Several "owners" were talking about the very same on Saturday.
And it's still true- I don't think about it much- but when I do, the looks of it and all, I think well, I've had much better looking tables, I've had some very flashy ones, some of the big name coveted ones... But when I play a record on the Amadeus, it quietly puts all those other tables back in the mental cobwebs, and all I hear is music, like none of those tables gave.

Class A? Does anyone other than their advertisers or those that are deaf even pay attention to that anymore?