Schitt turntable anyone?

Sleepy, maybe you can offer at least one anecdotal story to back up your point rather than a grossly exaggerated generalization. 

Hey Cel, what cart were they using? Also, I assume the Mani Freya aegir monoblock combo?

I've had the $129 Mani. Great for the price.

If it was packaged with that table AND a cart for...$500, that would be something worth looking at.

Not gonna happen, so it just another piece of Schiit.

OP: Yes, as to the setup. I don’t recall the speakers, tho. Definitely not Schiit speakers. As for cartridge, I honestly did not focus on it as much as the turntable. I asked Jason about the carbon fiber tonearm. It was a pretty substantial arm, in terms of overall diameter (~0.35 to 0.4 inches?) and length (~11 inches?), for being part of an unipivot design. I mentioned that I had a couple Infinity Black Widow carbon fiber tonearms that were deemed really only suitable with high compliance cartridges. (The Infinity BW tonearm has a substantially thinner diameter than the Schiit Sol tonearm.) I asked Jason about cartridge compatibility of the SOL tonearm. He was a bit cagey in his response, saying he wasn’t really the analog guy of the company (that bring Mike Moffat). 

Here’s a link to the development of the Sol:

https://www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701...

@cleander the problem with schiit is their products are lacking in quality of parts and engineering. You can’t expect audiophile grade gear on a Walmart budget. You are free to go against conventional wisdom of course. That is why there are marginal products of every kind, to suit people who must be different.