Another Cart opinion thread....

Not really out of the box, just trying to help save someone from wasting a bunch of money based on my own experience.  


Thanks, It's always good to learn from someone else experience.

I would upgrade that phono preamp

That's probably a correct statement.

^ yep, phono pre first

+1 big_greg

All,  Thank you for your input.

I have somethings to consider.  I'm off to my local Stereo store next week (yup, I still have one, VERRRY High end).  I was in last week,  he also thought the weak link was my preamp and offered to lend me a new phono stage to take home for evaluation.  At least that's one piece of equipment that can be tested in my home environment before purchasing.

I'm still hoping for description of how the above Carts are similar / different sonically and in performance.

-W