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Grand Prix Audio Monaco Turntable

FYI, Hi Fi Plus (an excellent UK audio magazine) just did a very thorough review of the Monaco turntable. I have had the turntable for a year and think it is incredibly transparent and very involving - you really get pulled into the music. I could never explain why I found the turntable so engaging, but I think Roy Gregory has done a very good job of explaining why. I have had the VPI HRX and am very familiar with a number of the high end tables (e.g., the SME 30 and top of the line Brinkman)and thought those tables were very good, but I never had the same connection with the music as I do with the Monaco
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03-21-08: Mtkhl567
I'm only recently starting to understand by listening to old technology based high-end tables what kind of colorations many of our dear traditional audiophile friends have gotten used to.
...which may help explain the persistent, fanatical devotion to the Technics SL12x0 turntables.

I'm not going to be silly enough to say my Technics is in a league with the Monaco GP, but I share that sense that music played on it is "... transparent and very involving - you really get pulled into the music."

I find my DD rig most compelling; I can't let it play in another room for long--it beckons me to sit down in the sweet spot and be transported.
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