And I would probably get highly customized Technics SP10-MKIII for less. Or Walker. Anyway, at this price level you must listen to everything available even if it means flying to Europe for audition.
Walker Procession is $38k, top of the line SME is close to that,I think. I mentioned it because someone said that he would prefer Avid at this price level. The reason why I asked about SME was that I hoped that those familiar with this level turntables would compare them or at least describe the sound of SME tables.
Hi Rzado, Thank you for a detailed post. The way you generally described SME sound, it is very close to how some others described Simon Yorke sound. I am somewhat surprised that you don't appear to think highly of SME tonearms, especially compared to their tables. Lacee, would you care to elaborate on Kronos? It might be more three dimensional than SME, what about the other elements?
Moonglum, this brings us to an interesting question. How do you match table and arm? It appears that this is important too, not only matching arm and cartridge. I just hope that there is no need to match table and cartridge. In any case, it's a complex system of three elements.
Right. You just choose the table first then try every arm available in combination with every cartridge. Within certain price range, say, from $500 to $15000. And in couple of years you'll eventually hit the right combination. Oh yes, we should add the cable to this.
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