Help to pick belt driven turntable around $1500
Hello everybody,
I know that there is a similar thread already, but my requirements are different. I am looking for a belt driven turntable.
Right now I own U-Turn Orbit Plus with DL-110 on it. Now I finally decided to do an upgrade (the clicking noises coming from the motor solidified my decision).
Here are are my requirements:
- belt driven
- manual (auto is ok, but I prefer to do things manually)
- swappable cartridge
- unipivot is preferable, but not required
- swappable tonearm (not a hard requirement)
- price around $1500
- no cartridge is OK (I like my DL-110)
- support for MC cartridge
- adjustable VTF, Azimuth and Antiskate (azimuth is not a hard requirement)
So far I am looking at these tables:
Marantz TT-15S1
Mobile Fidelity StudioDeck+
Rega Planar 6
Clear Audio Concept (a bit of a stretch even if I got it with no cartridge)
Schiit Sol (much cheaper than above tables, but quite interesting)
What is your experience with above tables and what would you recommend. Any other tables that you can recommend?
Many Thanks,
Alex
I know that there is a similar thread already, but my requirements are different. I am looking for a belt driven turntable.
Right now I own U-Turn Orbit Plus with DL-110 on it. Now I finally decided to do an upgrade (the clicking noises coming from the motor solidified my decision).
Here are are my requirements:
- belt driven
- manual (auto is ok, but I prefer to do things manually)
- swappable cartridge
- unipivot is preferable, but not required
- swappable tonearm (not a hard requirement)
- price around $1500
- no cartridge is OK (I like my DL-110)
- support for MC cartridge
- adjustable VTF, Azimuth and Antiskate (azimuth is not a hard requirement)
So far I am looking at these tables:
Marantz TT-15S1
Mobile Fidelity StudioDeck+
Rega Planar 6
Clear Audio Concept (a bit of a stretch even if I got it with no cartridge)
Schiit Sol (much cheaper than above tables, but quite interesting)
What is your experience with above tables and what would you recommend. Any other tables that you can recommend?
Many Thanks,
Alex
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I see exactly zero reason not to spend $1500 on a belt drive and my hands down choice would be the Clearaudio Concept. With the Concept arm and no cartridge it can be had for $1600. That said the SL1500C and SL1200GR are both excellent choices and I would take either of them over any of the others in your list. |
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