Best Turntable: Rockport or Goldmund?

Khrys-- Don't know the Shun Mook line for bikes but thanks for the feedback. I have been hoping to get our relationship back on track after you trashed me in a previous post.

CW-- My apologies if offence was taken. None meant. But, for the record you were "eurotrashed" which I thought clinched the joke. Regrettably, it did not. The reference was oblique. And, I am accordingly contrite.

It is difficult to get spares for the Goldmund and if repairs become necessary, it will take a very long time. Should you ever want to buy a G., inspect the bearing very carefully and give yourself a thirty day trial period, to see if the elctronics of arm and platter control really work reliably. I do not know the situation in the US, I am talking Europe here. Unfortunatedly I have no Rockport experience. (Funny that all the wags who answered you, did not associate Rockport with roquefort, which would have given endless occasion for further jokes, but then perhaps they don't like cheese)

I just spoke with a fellow Rockport owner who owned a Goldmund Reference before buying his Rockport (pre-Sirius, no air suspension, etc.), which he has had updated several times. He said the Rockport completely destroyed the Goldmund.

Your post reminds me of those good old pissing contests of my schoolboy days long since gone and made me smile. If I had just bought a Rockport, I would probably maintain the same. Only "completely destroy " is just as "complete" BS of course, because at this level of refinement of LP playback, complete "destruction" is hardly possible, I would rather suggest the term of say " fairly significant differences within certain parameters ". The language your friend uses, makes it difficult to take him seriously.