Turntable for a Denon DL-103 cartridge

Herb Reichert gave it a very favorable review in Stereophile. I agree with him! Maybe the best TT under $1K!

Maybe under 2K$$$

I'd go with the New Pioneer!  The used market is over priced, given the current popularity of Vinyl Playback.   Plus you will get a warranty.

For the DL-103 you need superheavy high mass tonearm, most of them are oldschool like Fidelity-Research FR-64s, great arm, but this arm deserve a much better cartridge, and none of the mentioned turntables have such arm. 

Using a low compliance MC cartridge on lighweight tonearms designed mainly for MM is nonsence (none of MM are low compliance).  

You have to understand how to calculate tonearm/cartridge resonance. 
Read here about it. 

If you will decide on a new turntable, make sure to look for Technics released this year (under $1399 including cartridge and phono stage) and ignore Technics clones made by some other companies like Pioneer before Technics made a come back! 

If, for some reason, you're a fan of Denon 103 then a brand new Thomas Schick "12 inch tonearm has been designed for this cartridge, you can buy turntable without tonearm to install your own arm on it. 

Good luck

Hi roberjerman,

>I use a 103R in my Pioneer PLX1000. It works well and is an easy

> recommendation! Plus it is a new direct-drive TT with zero maintenance

> issues!

What headshell are you using with 103R?
THanks