[Scott Dorsey]

Brassplyer wrote:
Ever heard an exotic turntable in action? Do you have one? Do you feel the difference between it and say a correctly set up Technics SL1200MK2 is night and day?

I have, and some of them are very good and some of them are very very bad.

The Technics can sound pretty good if you put a good arm and cartridge on it,
but the arm, cartridge, and preamp are much of the equation. It still cogs
audibly a little bit and that can be annoying. It adds a slight sense of blur,
much like scrape flutter on tape machines. But put an SME arm and a good MC
cartridge on it and it will be as good as some of the systems seen in the
high end shops.

Go to a high end show and listen to some of the systems there, they are often
all over the place. Very clean sounding systems next to horribly honky ones.
--scott

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