Turntable Advice?


My SOTA Star Sapphire motor has gone bonkers, so I'm planning its replacement.  Hoping to get some thoughts on my options - I think some of you enjoy a challenge like this.  Major components are Aerial 10T's, Classe 6 Mk II pre-amp, Classe DR-150 amp.  Primary listening is well-recorded jazz, blues and solo guitar.

I could either re-use or sell my SME V arm.  I'm hoping I won't have to shell out more than another $1,500 either way.  Here's what I'm thinking:

1)  Get a new table and cart for the SME, have it all set up by a local pro
2)  Buy an old SOTA and cannibalize the motor
3)  Sell the SME V and go with:
  • New Music Hall mmf-9.3 with Goldring Eroica LX (no head amp needed - Classe has a MC input)
  • New Music Hall mmf-9.3 with upgraded cartridge (suggestions?)
  • Rega RP6 with Exact 2 cartridge
  • Clearaudio Concept or Emotion w/ dedicated arm and cartridge
  • Used table/arm (as long as it's durable)
This is admittedly a very wide-ranging list of options, but I'm all ears.  What would you do?  Thanks in advance!
keegiam

@lewm, and then there is the matter of a TNT (or Aries, or any other VPI as far as I know) with the Eclipse package installed in place of the stock Hurst AC motor. Bill Carlin was talking on the VPI Forum a few years back about the need for a better motor in the otherwise nice VPI tables (he's a fan of DC motors), and proposed he and Harry Weisfeld collaborate on a package similar to the Eclipse for the VPI tables. Unfortunately, a clash of personalities developed between the two, and it never came to pass

VPI owners now have a way to improve the sound of their tables at reasonable cost, thanks to SOTA! SOTA is also producing the Roadrunner tachometer, which is identical to the Phoenix Engineering version.

The motor is NOT AC.  The terminology 3 phase DC means that it is a brushless DC motor where the windings are excited by a switching DC power supply which turns the power on & off to the correct winding at a very fast pace such that the fixed magnet in the motor tries to "keep up" with it, hence the rotation:

Check this out, especially page 8:
https://www.monolithicpower.com/pub/media/document/Brushless_DC_Motor_Fundamentals.pdf

These motors last a long time coz there is no grinding brush to wear off but the driving electronics has to be spot on and are very complicated.