The same arm/cartridge was used on the tables. The arm is a Stogi S 12 w/VTA and a Lyra cartridge.
Maybe I was being a bit hyperbolic with my statement, but there definitely was a noticeable improvement with Kronos.
Thanks Simon. The same arm and cartridge makes the comparisons that much more meaningful. I'm not so interested in the degree of the preference for the Kronos, just in the ways that you and he think it sounds different. That is a wide variety of tables, and as Bonzo writes, they all sound different. And yet, the Kronos is preferred, and it is the modern belt drive design. I don't know if we can reach any conclusions about that per se, but we do know that he bought the Kronos because he prefers that sound to all the others with the same arm/cartridge. I'm interesting in learning what differences he heard. That could perhaps tell us something. Thank you.