UPGRADE FROM VPI SCOUTMASTER

nd of course there’s no reason one cannot mount any arm one prefers on any VPI table if he or she so chooses.

This is why up around this level it pays to start looking at each component and not lump it all into "turntable". I just think in many cases it makes a lot more sense to focus on improving one part at a time. Arm or table, could do either one first, hardly matters which. For most of us that means being able to afford an arm of a level that would be too expensive if included with a turntable. Don't even have to sell the one you replace, keep it and put it back on when its time to sell. At which time between what you saved and what you'll get selling you can afford a really good table. Its more work, takes a little longer, but a whole lot better in the end.

I just noticed the OP was a month ago. A one-liner. The OP didn’t even bother to use a question mark. He hasn’t posted since. And his name is digital.

Well, digital3. I guess digitalTroll was taken.

Turntables as a category are very small production run items. As such they absolutely have to command really good profit margins to be worth making at all. This explains why if you look back across the whole field you find the best most highly regarded makers only make a very few models. Kuzma would be one. Linn. Basis. 

The problem is that people coming into it, they rely on what they see right now, which is VPI and Rega ads and reviews (but, I repeat myself) plastered everywhere. Takes a very long time to realize they are the Bose of turntables. Apply a little logic. It takes a lot of advertising to get the word out at that level. Money spent on ads cannot be spent developing product. This makes it a lot harder to even find the really good stuff. Explains perfectly why people like rsf507 who went to the trouble speak so highly.

The best advertising is the customers. Assuming of course you listen to them.