I would beware of being led down the path of being scammed in this market / industry. See my other topic I just updated about tonearm ripoffs. You’ll notice that almost all of the responses in that thread REFUSE to answer the question if tonearms result in an upgrade and instead mostly what I got were people repeating useless truisms about matching and what they do for "you". There were a handful of responders which did clearly state that upgrades to their tonearms resulting in significant sonic upgrades, but they never detail these sound quality improvements.
So, I’m just saying: be prepared for the possibility that turntables and their components are largely a SCAM, and that if everything is matching right, cart is a competent MC with the right material, etc, then anything you pay above the minimum required for this baseline is simply a RIPOFF, a racket for small manufacturers with workshops to make wild margins off of building boutique parts with virtually no sonic benefit over simply competent parts.
So, I’m just saying: be prepared for the possibility that turntables and their components are largely a SCAM, and that if everything is matching right, cart is a competent MC with the right material, etc, then anything you pay above the minimum required for this baseline is simply a RIPOFF, a racket for small manufacturers with workshops to make wild margins off of building boutique parts with virtually no sonic benefit over simply competent parts.
