best "entry level" audiophile TT?

Taking pains to get this 'table acoustically/vibrationally isolated pays off big sonic dividends.

I have three Dennensen air suspension platform pistons under a granite slab under my KAB modded 1200. The air suspension makes a HUGE sonic improvement.

Other tricks I use include Marigo dots on the tonearm gimbals and under cartridge body. This also wowed me.

The 1200 series is entry level in price, but the technology to price ratio is much higher thatn any of its competitors. The KAB mods take it to the $5K performance level with much less than that.

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Question about Dennensen platforms:

I have three Dennensen air suspension platform pistons

Do you have a link or any information about these isolation devices?

Music hall MMF-7 was what got me hooked again on the medium.

+++ The KAB mods take it [SL1200] to the $5K performance level with much less than that.+++

Really? And which $5000 tables my that be? Teres perhaps? Galabier? Avid? Oracle? ClearAudio? Michell?
Sota?

Tell me something psychic, have you ever even heard a $5K table? I have heard a SL1200 and it sound nothing like a $5K table. Doesn't even sound like $500 table.

Regards
Paul

Hey Guys, listening is SUBJECTIVE. How can you claim to know how good or bad a table sounded to someone else? Some like the sound of one table, others don't. Period. No claim of OBJECTIVE superiority can be sustained or substantiated.

Myself, I'm thrilled to death by the sound of my distinctly un-audiophile Yamaha YP-D8 DD table, unmodded, playing my Empire EDR.9 vintage cart. So my $400 rig (including cart) meets MY needs just fine. Will it meet anyone else's -- no way to predict.