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Teres vs VPI, SME, Origin Live, etc.

I have Manley Steelhead Phono Pre VII and Berning ZH-270 Amp, and I ordered a pair of Merlin VSM-MX. The next step is to upgrade my Table and Arm. I am thinking about the Teres 265(320) with Shroder Model2 Arm or Origin Live Illustrious Arm, or VPI HR-X, or SME 20 with SME 5 Arm, or Origin Live table and arm. The budget is around $7000 (used or new).
For VPI HR-X, SME 20, and Origin Live, I can find some profesional reviews. For Teres, I did not find any profesional reviews, but some user reviews. And there are few A/B comparision reviews on Teres.
It will be greatly appreciated if anybody who A/B compared the above tables to give the information.
Any suggestion is welcomed.
Hanjiang
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aroc
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Hey Am Dial! But most people have an ALT key and a numeric keypad. You can get all of the extended characters if you know the code (is that ASCII, ansi, or unicode?) alt and a numeric keypad. No option key needed!

Aaron
aroc
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Don't get me started on uninvolving. My Music Hall is about an uninvolving as they come. I have the MMF-2.1 BTW. Sure the frequency extremes and soundstaging is better than a thorens 166/hadcock 242/grado gold, but that's about it. The Michell Gyro SE/Expressimo rb250/dynavector 20xh that I had the pleasure of using for a while bettered both of those (at significantly more cost). The PRaT was excellent. The soundstage was just flat. I've read that is just the flavor of the Gyro SE, but it might have been my system too (or perhaps the Hagerman Bugle phono stage). I've heard th EuroLab (Scheu) Premier II, and the backgrounds were Jet Black, and the soundstaging and imaging were excellent. I thought the PRaT was just as good. But of course more than a year had passed at that point. And *any* decent is bound to sound better than my Music Hall. :-(
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