Clearaudio TTs good or bad

I need to add the clearaudio solution to this list & A basis 2000 but the basis looks like a poor value. THANKS..

Hi Bj. The Glider sounded good on a solution/morch arm. The champion sounded good with a clearaudio victory/morch arm & a BPS, same arm. Sound: clear, fast, not necessarily lean; information retrieval is superior to "plusher" TTs (/older designs). IMO, Clearaudios need a good RIAA to sound correct, otherwise upper or lower register may be pronounced.

Which SME arm? Crc: what's the mod on the 250?? The champion is rigid & fast -- I assume the 250 will keep up?

Cheers!

The SME V is the arm, but this combination is a bit out of my range. But this is what my dealer is recomending. I am trying to keep it at $3300. I've read that the RB600 works well. I do listen to a lot of 70/80 rock. so a lot of my music are not great recording. Also my dealer does not like RB600 because no vta adj.

I personally own a Clearaudio Solution with Origin Live RB250 tonearm and have been suitably impressed. It does offer, as previously stated, a very quick and clean sound though certainly not in the 'analytical' realm (a camp I generally steer away from). A most enjoyable and 'pleasant-to-listen-to' sound in my system. My listening room has a carpeted concrete floor and the table sits on a relatively stable rack, so footfalls are not an issue and I couldn't offer much insight on this area, though I do have the spiked feet resting on Yamamura Art-Q Dampers for further isolation. Good luck with your vinyl quest.

I made mistake it is a SME 309.