Upgrade from TW Acustic Raven AC-3 to what?

Dearest Thuchan,
Option One is correct as you had hoped. Happy holidays on that.

When he's been doing it for 50 years, I'll give a listen.

Thanks for your kind words.

Dear Audiofile,

I had hoped so! Now I can go for Christmas preparations...
Have a good time too.

thuchan

Regarding string Drive - my experience with the final audio ( high mass/ac drive ) was a big improvement in stability going from cotton ( slippage and stretch ) to surgical silk.
I'd really like to get a version of this with no knot if possible as I believe the knot is the weakness - anyone got any suggestions.
I also aligned the position of the drive string to be at the bearing point ( this is an inverted bearing design ) - again this seemed to be an improvement.
With regard to torque - my experieicnes using the adjustabe torque on the speed controller of the final are that there is definitely an optimum - the sound is much smoother at the optimum point, ie I go for the highest torque until the sound goes off.

lastly a question for Dover, what do you think of someone dumping a Walker Black Diamond for a refurbished Technics SP10 MKII ?????
My view would be use the money leftover to buy a high mass rigid turntable as mentioned in the threads above.

Dover if you and Detonarm went out and had dinner together one evening and the both of you ordered a bowel movement for your main course I for one would not listen to your advise on gourmet cooking.

That is the problem and the core misunderstanding between applied physics and taste. A mix-up or inherent error often happening in Audio. Many discussions in audio thought to be about technical or physical issues are in fact about taste, believe and fellowship.
We have seen some posts here lately which did not content one single technical aspect.
But even regarding taste - you know Oscar Wilde's unforgettable phrase.
But I am confident that Dover as well as me would be able to locate the right spot for a gourmet dinner. And we would choose the chef who really knows what he's doing and would not follow the latest hype or up-written advise which has just opened and presents a Cheeseburger with some golden sprinkles as haute cuisine.