best "entry level" audiophile TT?

Tell me something psychic, have you ever even heard a $5K table? I have heard a SL1200 and it sound nothing like a $5K table. Doesn't even sound like $500 table.

No I haven't heard a $5K TT. I was born and raised in a little Caribbean island with only a few general stores and post offices. Not even TVs were sold. Everybody had little AM radios for listening to hurricane weather broadcasts.

Of course, the 1200 does not sound like a $500 table. You must have come from somewhere other than my little island. The 1200's technology to price ratio goes way above its price point. But then again, it's someone like Raoul the Mexican that gives you first world audiophiles a reality check regarding lowly moving magnets giving multi thousand dollar moving coils a run for their money. Money...ahhhh!

JohnnyB, e-mail me & I'll send ya pictures.

With psychic power and primal intensity,

Everyone says Rega (p3 or p2?).

That's because they don't know better than glass & particle board.

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Taking pains to get this 'table acoustically/vibrationally isolated pays off big sonic dividends.

I have three Dennensen air suspension platform pistons under a granite slab under my KAB modded 1200. The air suspension makes a HUGE sonic improvement.

Other tricks I use include Marigo dots on the tonearm gimbals and under cartridge body. This also wowed me.

The 1200 series is entry level in price, but the technology to price ratio is much higher thatn any of its competitors. The KAB mods take it to the $5K performance level with much less than that.

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Tvad: I can sell you some beachfront land for cheap...three dollars an acre. E-mail me.

JohnnyB: I e-mailed you the pictures. There was a nice tourist that let me use their laptop--I don't own a computer. No computers on this island...only little AM radios.

Audiofeil: Raoul has a lot of toys--especially for a kid that smoked weed and listened to music on a Technics 1700. However, he does know how they sound and has let quite a few know that they're being ripped off by the high end establishment. You could relocate to my island and become a real estate agent. Don't worry about the $3 an acre price. We have plenty.

Metalsymph: $500-600 on a Technics 12XX, Kevin's newest $100 modded Stanton 500 cartridge and an eBay Groovmaster record cleaner would leave some cash to go get used records in Chicago.

Groovmaster

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Pauly must come from some real upscale hood.