All great suggestions and I thank you. barolobrain (great taste in wines, incidentally!), the AMG retails for $3500 new so I'm not confident getting a used one for my budget. I'm leaning towards a triplanar 2 I saw on Ebay for around $1500 with the Audiomods 6 as a fall back.
Pick my next tonearm....PLEASE
Finding a good tonearm around $1500 (used or new) is almost impossible. I've pretty much narrowed it down to two:
Rega RB 2000
SME 309
My table is an old (ancient) SOTA Star. I have a variety of cartridges (Grado reference, Monster Cable, etc.) so I don't think I will have difficulty finding something that would match in terms of compliance.
Rega RB 2000
SME 309
My table is an old (ancient) SOTA Star. I have a variety of cartridges (Grado reference, Monster Cable, etc.) so I don't think I will have difficulty finding something that would match in terms of compliance.