Another turntable

Just got an Avid Ingenium....beautiful turntable and all I'll ever need. 2 grand.....with cartridge already mounted. Will upgrade mdf platter to the aluminum one at some point, but In no hurry. Avid is good bang for the buck.

@pindac , I meant, after owning many idler and direct drives, I personally prefer some of the belt drives the best when it comes to high resolution playback without getting sterile. I don't hear people talking about Hartvig turntables here but it is a very good TT. Better than a Kuzma Stabi M to start with.

Dear @senza : Down Technics land there is really low knowledge levels of the overall today models.

You can put the Technics in a vibraplane plattform and that’s all. In this way no one of all the TT’s ( today or vintage ) named here can " touch " it.

The over 100K+ SAT DD TT use a Technics motor design. I don’t know what really are talking those " partisan " against the today Technics but anything they said against only speaks of their low knowledge levels levels.

Don’t let that people take out the Technics alternative but at the end is up to you.

In the other side remember that does not exist any perfect audio item over the world, always we must take founded in the trade-offs of each audio item.

R.

Dear @senza  : Exist several vintage TTs that not only even the vintage Technics SP10MK3 but that outperformed as: Final Paruthenon, Goldmund Reference, Rockport Sirius, Exclusive P3A by Pioneer, Micro Seiki Sz-1TVS,  Thorens Reference, Yamaha GT 2000X , Kenwood, etc, etc.

The today Technics motor is a better design that the vintage SP10MK because the SP-10R is a coreless motor design that's new in Technics TT.

SP-10R needs a plinth and out there are Technics plinth manufacturers that can help any buyer and their plinths are just great and custom made .

But TT is only one important part in the analog rig and when we are talking of this kind of level quality the tonearm/cartridge of choice is extremely critical, especially the tonearm that must be the one that can help for the cartridges shows at its best because from there is generated the MUSIC audio signal and the next step is probably more important and that is the phonolinepreamp where that MUSIC audio signal is proccessed in a really " tortuose " overall proccess that unfortunatelly at each single step inside that proccess the sensitive, valuable and critical MUSIC audio signal will be degraded through added distortions of every kind. So the choice of this audio item is way important too because we need the unit that makes/does the less harm to that MUSIC audio signal.

R.

Hi @pani it is the wonderful world of the HiFi Journey, when two individuals have shared in common experiences of equipment use, and the preferred ancillary of each are with a difference.

Good info for the OP to consider, hearing the performance of an ancillary is crucial, and demonstrations are the key to the gathering the evidence for the assessments that will be produced.