Newbie turntable Upgrade


So I broke my cardinal rule about not going down the Vinyl Rabbit-hole, now this Alice-in-Wonderland owns a Fluance RT85, 4,count them, FOUR phonostages (Parasound XRM, Darlington Labs, Sutherland , and a Waxwing to feed my dac) Ortofon 2M Blue, and Bronze, and a Denon DL-110 cartridge along with a bunch of decent jazz and classic rock lp's. Now the need to upgrade the turntable has risen. Looking for suggestions that doesn't exceed $2K usd.

I value your opinions. 

ericrhodes1

VTA can be an issue with Rega tables but IMO it's over exaggerated. There are plenty of other fine cartridges that do not need a spacer(shim) that perform flawlessly on Rega tonearms. 

I could be wrong, but I think the OP has one turntable and 4 phono stages.

I will also recommend the Technics SL-1200GR. Wonderful sounding table, easy to use, rock solid speed control and like your Fluance simple to swap out headshells / cartridges'.

Advantage with Technics, besides it being a good table, is you can swap headshells with different cartridges. The adjustments are so easy that you’ll be spinning with new cart in no time. 

 

eric

I’m not wild about the appearance of the Technics, there are many wood surrounds available, this is about 2 years old, but

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/wood-surround-for-audio-technica-at120-technics-1200-and-technics-1210

my last post there

recent find

This one is solid Walnut, costs $790., a good bit more than others, what I noticed is the list of Models it fits. Of course that would need to be confirmed if buying from a different maker, but here’s the link and list of models they say it fits

We’ve confirmed these custom plinths will fit these models:
SL-1300G
SL-1200G
SL-1210G
SL-1200GR
SL-1210GR
SL-1200GR2
SL-1210GR2
SL-1500C

Dimensions:

19.5 wide x15.5 deep

Skyfiaudio Wood Frame for Technics TTs

A variety come up on Etsy

 

eric

I check used on hifishark every day,

local pickup is advantageous, where are you located ______?