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High mass vs Low Mass Turntables - Sound difference?

As I am recently back playing with analog gear after some 15 years away, I thought I would ask the long time experts here about the two major camps of record players -- high vs low mass-loaded-type tables...

For example, an equivalently priced VPI table (say a Classic, Aries or Prime) versus a Rega RP8/10 or equivalent Funk Firm table...  the design philosophies are so different ... one built like a tank, the other like a lightweight sports car...

Just wondering if the folks here have had direct experience with such or similar tables, and what have been your experiences and sense of strengths and weaknesses of these two different types of tables.



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harold-not-the-barrel
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10 kg mass ORACLE DELPHI, early models w/ GROOVE ISOLATOR and "soft spring set" suspension outperform so many IME. In musicality.
harold-not-the-barrel
895 posts
 
Stop this. It´s disgusting !
harold-not-the-barrel
895 posts
 
I never had any kind of problems using Terminator T3Pro LT on my ORACLE DELPHI. The sound was very convincing, quite incredible to be honest for a BD suspended deck. The best I ever had heard hands down.
harold-not-the-barrel
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My ORACLE`s suspension is not "too soft", it´s just works superb. I can make my suspension bouncing up and down (3.5 Hz) whilst playing a record with excellent sound quality. The early DELPHIs with soft suspension are superb performers IME. I never liked DELPHI IV with stiffer suspension.
And with hard acrylic mat it sounded quite awful, to be honest.
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