SOTA NOVA, HR-X VPI, Technics 1200G recommendations?

Dance floors are usually concrete so, there is never an issue with foot fall skipping.

Usually wooden floor if we’re talking about nice small venues, but there is an issue with floor shaking (or stage shaking) if it’s not a warehouse with concrete floor or a club in the basement. But in all those public venues at least 100 people are moving and dancing.

When we are listening at home we’re normally in the listening chair and nothing going on. 1-3 people chilling in the room while some record spinning on the turntable. I assume we have a good wooden table or a metal/wooded rack on spikes for turntable and I believe there are no neighbors hammering the floor or the wall while we are listening to the music. So what kind of vibrations audiophiles are talking about ? On microscopic level it must be absolutely irrelevant for a proper turntable, because it was designed for use just like this without anything special under the table. 

Mijo, I don’t know which of my posts you’re referencing but my last post was just to remind us why sometimes high effective mass is necessary and that low compliance with high mass is in my opinion not the prime cause of record wear so long as VTF is comparable to that of a typical higher compliance cartridge, eg, 2g or less. I don’t think you’d disagree. I want no part of arguing about suspension vs no suspension. There are too many variables.

Having the removable head shell with a few twists of the screw, and putting on a new head shell, and only having to take 3-5 minutes adjusting the weight is so nice.
we use 4 different head shells and this is a huge plus!

@lewm 

In what way is Technics SP-10 MK3 better than MK2? Is the SQ difference dramatic?

Mk3 then Mk2 was not the best of the rest in my system to my ears.