Eurolab premier turntable.

Why don't you but a new Scheu Premier directly instead of helping the US dist. clear out stock he is not a dist. for anymore and probably won't give you warranty work on? You can get a Scheu table for around $1500 or so, with full warranty. Sweet looking table with other interesting options that I dont think hart can give you. Save money, get a supported product - two reasons I would go this route over the other.

http://www.scheu-analogue.com/eng/

I don't know what you mean by Hudson being a direct link to Eurolab. I believe that Eurolab is the name of the real Scheu Premier model that Hart of AA came up with for the US market. Or Eurolab is a name for one of the other Scheu tables carried by AA at one time. I know there used ot be a lower level table below the Premier that Hart used to have in that was called a EuroKit or something. Anyway, anybody who has a table called a Eurolab has left over stock from when Hart was the distributor and I imagine that Hudson Audio happens to have some "Eurolabs" left in stock that they just want to dump since its not a supported US product anymore.

Just to be clear about this, Scheu doesn't have a US dist anymore and he sells direct to the market now. Any retailer in the US who is selling a Premier or Eurolab is selling old stock that probably has no warranty coverage.

If you have a look at the Scheu website you will note that the Premier has been improved and is now at MK II. This would mean that any tables being sold by anyone in the US are not only unsupported (assuming Scheu won't support it now) but also obsolete.

As for the price, when I looked in to it around 4 months ago it was around US$1500 for the basic entry level Premier. So I thought $1500 would be about right but it could be more now. Anyway, if you go to the scheu website you will note that you have to contact them to get the price list. Even if its $1700 I would consider it over the old stock that doesn't have warranty for the same price. Plus you have options for single or dual 9 inch or 12 inch arms, platter thickness, and even colour.

I had a look at the pricing from the Denmark distr. for Scheu and converted their Kronars or whatever they are to US$$$ and it was around $1800 for the basic Premier for a single 9 inch config.

I have been down this road. I don't know how Morch managed to do it, but the price of the arms seems to be the same across the globe. You can't get it any cheaper in Denmark or any other Netherland country. However, Hart is a pretty greedy guy and his prices, his greed coupled with a weak US$$$ have resulted in price increases in the US. Today, I would think the best place to buy would be in the UK. Ask for a price quote from Walrus in the UK and another dealer in the US to get a comparison.

I did get a DP6 in the end from a great US dealer, Sonic Culture in San Diego, and I really love this arm. It is so great in so many ways -- sonics, build, ease-of-use, flexibility, functionality/adjustments.