My wife is unsure why I invested in a new TT. At times I think Im crazy too. Yet someone posted on another thread about taking your xxxxx to the top. In hindsight, I have spent loads of time tuning everything in my serup. Including my TT. Yet my TT was the only piece I would say was cobbled together with inferior parts.
As a little history is started as an RP6. Then it got a groove tracer sub platter and platter and weight. Then it had the motor pulled off the plinth. (Hugh improvement). Then I broke the rega arm so it got a Vertere SG1. Some time along the way my Denon cartridge mounted in an aluminum headshell went to the soundsmith and came back sapphire with line contact.(another big change).
All in all it sounded good. I was quite pleased. But it was the weak link in my audio. About 1 month ago my Mojo Audio server was returned after a massive software upgrade. The result was astounding. It is so musical. Its what any great source should be. At this point my digital was destroying any vinyl I put at it. Not even close. The cobbled together tt player was very nice, and musical. It just wasn't anything my digital now was. At this point, I was actually pretty nervous about spending all this money on a new STST TT. (3 month delivery wait). How could a table change only impact my vinyl enough to challenge my digital. I was reinstalling my Verter arm and denon cartridge on the new table.
A shout out to Erik with Solypsa. Erik is the USA dealer. He brought the table to my house and performed a complete install. Glad he was there. There were quite a few parts to connect.
So the good part. After it was all put together with my Vertere arm and Denon cartridge, we dropped the needle. Immediately I knew this was a much better table than my previous rig. Just a table change, same arm, cables, cartridge, phono pre. Nothing else changed. A hugh leap forward. The first record we put on was a french album I play all the time. It's nice coffee music in the morning. Immediatly I was struck by understanding the words. The words just flowed forth. No I was not speaking french. Im not Joel. But they were all clear and intelligible. The speed also took a big jump. My favorite album, A Charlie Brown Christmas now digs fsr deeper into Garibaldi piano work. One of his decaying notes struck me as so real it almost put the piano in my room. Taking about real. My wife was upsairs in our open space landing stretching after work. She called down, what that. I was confused and said I heard nothing. She said, that sound, are you playing your guitar. That real. She was confusing music from my stereo with my live playing. That pretty darn good in my book.
I'm super happy with my new table. I am glad there are numerous choices for consumers. If belt drive was all there were, I would be using my old tabe. It was the allure of a DD that pushed me over the edge. I had heard some in rhe past and felt it was for me. And I was right.
Thanks for reading
Rex
As a little history is started as an RP6. Then it got a groove tracer sub platter and platter and weight. Then it had the motor pulled off the plinth. (Hugh improvement). Then I broke the rega arm so it got a Vertere SG1. Some time along the way my Denon cartridge mounted in an aluminum headshell went to the soundsmith and came back sapphire with line contact.(another big change).
All in all it sounded good. I was quite pleased. But it was the weak link in my audio. About 1 month ago my Mojo Audio server was returned after a massive software upgrade. The result was astounding. It is so musical. Its what any great source should be. At this point my digital was destroying any vinyl I put at it. Not even close. The cobbled together tt player was very nice, and musical. It just wasn't anything my digital now was. At this point, I was actually pretty nervous about spending all this money on a new STST TT. (3 month delivery wait). How could a table change only impact my vinyl enough to challenge my digital. I was reinstalling my Verter arm and denon cartridge on the new table.
A shout out to Erik with Solypsa. Erik is the USA dealer. He brought the table to my house and performed a complete install. Glad he was there. There were quite a few parts to connect.
So the good part. After it was all put together with my Vertere arm and Denon cartridge, we dropped the needle. Immediately I knew this was a much better table than my previous rig. Just a table change, same arm, cables, cartridge, phono pre. Nothing else changed. A hugh leap forward. The first record we put on was a french album I play all the time. It's nice coffee music in the morning. Immediatly I was struck by understanding the words. The words just flowed forth. No I was not speaking french. Im not Joel. But they were all clear and intelligible. The speed also took a big jump. My favorite album, A Charlie Brown Christmas now digs fsr deeper into Garibaldi piano work. One of his decaying notes struck me as so real it almost put the piano in my room. Taking about real. My wife was upsairs in our open space landing stretching after work. She called down, what that. I was confused and said I heard nothing. She said, that sound, are you playing your guitar. That real. She was confusing music from my stereo with my live playing. That pretty darn good in my book.
I'm super happy with my new table. I am glad there are numerous choices for consumers. If belt drive was all there were, I would be using my old tabe. It was the allure of a DD that pushed me over the edge. I had heard some in rhe past and felt it was for me. And I was right.
Thanks for reading
Rex
