3 New UBER Decks - Is this Turntable's SwanSong? 🦢

I know my hearing is good - 18khz at my last hearing test, and reasonably flat.

Good grief @dover ....that's amazing!
Mine cuts out at about 11K Hz....🙉
No wonder you can hear things on my YouTube videos that I can't!!!

The chances that he can set up a top end turntable accurately is remote.

The fact that you pick on the only man on earth who actually makes a 'living' selling his vinyl setup videos is ironic..🤥
For twenty years I had a Rega Planar 3 with Hadcock GH-228 unipivot tonearm.
If ANYONE can successfully master the adjustments on the GH-228 tonearm......everything else is a piece of cake 🤗
The Continuum Cobra and Copperhead arms are both PITA to setup for different cartridges and certainly not appropriate for a reviewer to use.
I think that's the main reason Mikey changed to the 4-Point and then the SAT.

After setting up dozens of cartridges.....one can become quite adept at it.
After setting up hundreds (as Mikey and I have done).....proficiency is not in doubt 😂
I've watched Mikey's setup procedure and don't do mine the same way...but then all of my tonearms (except for the Copperhead) have detachable headshells.
I certainly DON'T follow his USB microscope torture for SRA of 92 degrees.
If you can't HEAR when the VTA sounds best...you shouldn't be setting up a cartridge at all!!

I am the same age as Mikey, with good eyesight and steady hands.
I can setup cartridges whilst I chew a sandwich, talk on the phone and watch CNN all at the same time 🙃

Doehmann Helix-1 … has been reviewed by Mike.

Mark Doehmann was involved with design of Continuum Caliburn

@gordon:crap maybe it was the early 90’s,everything but the last 10 years is pretty much a blurred image..
Best of my memory is that he & Julian Hirsch had a big brew ha ha about M.F.’s apparent flip of camps from digital to vinyl..

...tell me when and where to send the flowers....there's only so far one can take the 'system', as 'magical' as it can be.  JMHO....

@antinn, great example of a proper review. Now if all tonearm reviews were done that way we might be able to draw some meaningful comparisons. My only complaint is that the V15 was too compliant for the Tri Planar. My own experience with damping brushes was frustrating at best. 5 Hz is too low in everyone's book. No wonder bass performance suffered. Not sure how they crammed a Tri Planar on a Sota. Donna insists it does not work without significant modification but maybe that is just the more current versions.

I am going to agree with audioman85, dover for the most part, clearthinker and rauliruegas. 

I am not so sure that vinyl is here to stay. Most of us older audiophiles have large record collections which makes owning a turntable mandatory.
The people around at the time record sales exploded are now older, their kids are on their own and they have much more money to burn. While it is true that some young people are getting into vinyl, far more are getting into digital. I won't be around to see the outcome consequently I really do not care. If I did not have any records I doubt I would buy a turntable on the other hand people who point at all the problems with vinyl reproduction have obviously not heard a top notch turntable with a modern stylus profile set up correctly playing a clean record. It always amazes me how good this can sound.

IMHO the Nak TX-100 was overkill in the extreme. Typical Nakamichi. Shifting the center of the platter is going to alter it's balance which in time will do a number on it's main bearing. Many of us laughed at it. Off center records are a problem and can be quite audible. My solution was quite simple. I returned the record as defective, and kept returning them until I got a copy that was decent.