How Much Is TOO MUCH for a Analog front End?

You say your table is on brass cones and a stone shelf. That would seems to be a poor choice. Brass cones impart a "brassy" sound to whatever I tried, and a stone slab should just aggrivate that resonance. In truth, you simply cant rid yourself of resonances, but you can move them to a place that doesnt effect the sound. I have my Superscout on a Gingko platform which seems to do what I want. You might touch base with their website and/or speak to them. They are very nice and helpful. I have my conponents on a 1 inch slab of medical grade Ultam which I cut for each component..expensive, but the best shelf I've heard. Even then I have the components off of their own feet and on something called Pon-Tunes. These are similar to Rollerballs and I am satisfied.

I think if you have to save for 6 to 9 months to buy
the next upgrade, it's really not that big a deal. 6 to 9 months from now, you still won't have extra money, you'll still be 6 to 9 months older, but you'll have a better analog rig! And you'll have something to obsess about in the mean time- if we weren't all relatively obsessive, we wouldn't be reading about the gear on a forum
when we're not listening to the music and equipment. Of course, there's audiophiles who do computer stuff while they're listening, but I digress.

Go for it. Your friends and family will be glad you finally get it because they'll be tired of hearing about it (a trick I learned from one buddy dealing with his wife).

Good luck on the decision,
RFG

GUMBY
I'm still laughing,,that is a good trick, but I was gonna siphon off just enough cash from "our"(my wife and I) budget to fund this little project, You are right I am obsessing over this table. I know myself I will not come to a happy medium til I get this set up.

Stringbeen I will look into that.

New question: seeing as how I have to live with this current set up for the next 9 months I need to get the most out of it.
I know there is a thread for it but,regarding the TWL tonearm tweak, I have the weights , drilled them out but cant for the life of me figure out how to mount them. I drilled them out so they're almost identical in weight, and cannot find the right inner diameter drill bit so that they "press fit " over my Ol silver's mounting yoke. and if thats not bad enough I can't find the right adhesive to make them "stick"
any help would be greatly appreciated.
pics and all!!
btw I AM GETTING THE NEW TABLE!!
I jsut haven't figured out which one......
til then thanks all

I'm glad you decided to
go for it!

I have a little story to
share about the importace
of a good table.

I sold some raw drivers to a gentleman who insisted I listen to his system in his wreckroom
downstairs.

He had three turntables, but the one that took your eye as soon as you
entered the room was a table that had a ten inch thick electric blue platter. it had the same blue color motor
which was far from the table that ran a long belt. Very beautiful/ exotic !

He proceded to play some
records on the lessor tables that had the same cartridge.

sounded good but he told me that the bigass rig
sounded about 4 or 5 times better.

I said noway!
Not with the same cartridge and simual arms.

When we twek steros we
look for 10 or 20 % differences.

I've never heard of a 4
or 5 times improvment!

So here we go, he drops the needle and instintly
ny jaw dropped to the ground.

I would never believed
how much of a difference
a table could make!

the table he bought cost him $20,000.00 the arms were nothing special just
black 9'' pivot arms that
cost $1000.00 to $1500.00. Cartriges were all the same micro rubies@ $3000.00 ea.

So there you have it, my
shocking experience with
gorgeous kickass table.

After about 10 months wait I finally recieved
my schroder arm.

It's gorgious and very easy on the eyes and always a pleasure to handle.
Now if only my magenetic bearig table would get here I will forever have a smile/grin that cannot be removed!

So... what was this magic turntable with the 10" thick electric blue platter and long-ass belt drive that made a 4-5x improvement?