Well Tempered Labs Record Player, thoughts on a used one?

Uberwaltz ...

I highly recommend a custom belt from Origin Live for the WTT.

Don’t worry about the arm. Once set up correctly, the WT is one of the best TTs out there, even those costing many times the money. There are a ton of mods that really improve things too.

On my Well-Tempered ... It is the original classic with the square motor. I’ve had it since it was new -- early 1990s.

Here’s a list of my mods:

1. Custom heavy brass clamp to dampen the silicone well.
2. Arm rewired with Cardas copper wire.
3. Cardas junction box for the female RCA jacks.
4. Custom machined brass counterweight on the arm.
5. One layer of shrink-wrap on the arm.
6. VPI record clamp.
7. Origin Live custom belt.
8. Perfect Path Technologies Alpha E-Cards along each side of the motor (four on each side).

The table sounded great when it was stock. Over the years, with all of the mods in place, it sounds pretty amazing.

Here are some owner reviews:

http://www.audioreview.com/product/analog-sources/turntables/well-tempered-labs/classic.html

Here’s a video that shows the heavy brass clamp around the tonearm well:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=chr-yo_gc&p=well+tempered+classic+turn+table+review#id=2&vid=e1b40c9f5fa0e4ec5fcb7276edbc4cdc&action=view

Here’s Robert Harley’s review on WT mods. Scroll down for the clamp mod:

https://www.stereophile.com/content/well-tempered-arm-more-rh

Frank

I’m sure it’s great if properly adjusted. I had the original square motor model and, because I don’t like to spend time on adjustments (and really didn’t know how to adjust it properly), I’m sure it was not performing correctly. Finally got a Rega Planar 6. Probably not as good as a perfectly adjusted  WTT but I’m happy to spend my time listening rather than trying to adjust everything.  

^^^ On the "adjustments:"  Once the WT is set up, you can just leave it alone. I haven't adjusted anything over the last five years except for replacing a cartridge and adjusting VTA  and downforce for each of the cartridges, and I play a lot of records. 

Frank

 I have recently inherited a Well Tempered Lab Reference TT
I am not interested in keeping it , not an Audiophile by any means and need to sell it.  It is hooked up with a Van de Hul Frog cartridge which I will remove and attempt to sell separate . In regards to the TT I am totally overfaced with the prospect of understanding how to disassemble , remove silicon , pack and put up for sale .  This was originally bought by my brother on Audiogon  used in 2008 for over $3K.  It has been of great service since then and used mainly for 78's and older recordings as in my brothers opinion that was the best set up for the older recordings and transport to CD .   Is it safe to transport in my car to a new location/person to help me with disassembly? 

Uber, did you buy the WT, and if so what do you think of it? I usually keep my head down on WT tonearm questions, because I once had to mount a cartridge in a Reference version and grew to hate it. Also it seemed to homogenize the sound; everything sounded good but with the same sluggish coloration. I know I’m in a minority. It seemed way overdamped, and perhaps that was my fault.So perhaps my impression is to be ignored. Surely the Amadeus must be better than the Reference because it has many avid fans.