Experience VPI Dragon and/or Mark Levinson 515 turntables

If people and parts are available, OP could overhaul his TT and change to a compatible arm with a removable headshell.

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all arms I have ever messed with, if they had captured/soldered wires within, were lighter, thinner, more flexible wires with thinner insulation, and ’soft slack’ than the ones used externally.

You can tell when you observe the arm’s inner skate on a blank lp before you apply any anti-skate

My Blackbird came with delicate exposed silk covered wires, no ’wire pushback’. But the silk insulation wore off and hum developed.

VAS re-wired, the new wire is stiffer, he added a VPI junction box with mini-din in and rca out, and that exposed length causes pushback. 

Yes, VPI added the anti-skate as an option to some arms that started without it, I could not tell if it is included on the arm on their Dragon table.

SME arms are no longer available to purchase - only supplied with their turntables.

VPI makes the Mark Levinson turntable

Thanks for responses.

Oracle and Eminent Technology work together.  It has produced good sound in the past.

This was about replacing with a VPI Dragon/ML 515.

I am not reading above that the VPI Dragon would be an improvement, just different.  Thank you.