Some tables have soul and some not

Martin Colloms ,years ago in stereophile explained that he became aware that with some component,the rhythm in music disappear.
And he made a demo at the hifi show in London on classical music,i was unfortunately not there but somebody said me he was quite astonished at finding rhythm differences in elizabethan music by listening to hifi components.

So..even if a component has soul it takes an effort, sometimes a great effort to bring it out. Just like with people.

Marakanetz, You wrote, "Balanced isn't only 3-pin. It could also be 5-pin stereo-balanced. If the phonostage is fully balanced(recall Violectrik), you can rewire tonearm for 5-pin stereo-balanced transmission." Actually, you would not have to do anything to the tonearm; just bundle the wires for both channels and connect them to one 5-pin connector.

There would be no electrical difference, of course, between using separate 3-pin XLRs, one for each channel, to carry balanced signals, and some sort of 5-pin connector for wires carrying the signals from both channels in one bundle, but I have never seen this done. Have you? Where did you get that idea? And what's a Violectrik? There are many examples of modern true balanced phono stages, but you've stumped me on Violectrik, and I am too lazy to google it. I like the name, though.

Lewm,
http://www.violectric.de/Pages/en/products/ppav600.php
Looking at the rear-view picture of this phonostage you clearly see 5-pin balanced input slot.
There are not too many fully balanced phonostages made nowdays, but this one is among them.

Orpheus10 - "classical music has no soul." In the words of John McEnroe - "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!" That just might be the most absurd thing I have ever read on these forums. Not to mention the irony of someone calling themselves Orpheus being the author of that statement....