mcintosh MT10 turntable good or not.

Check out the Clearaudio site for their cartridges and compare the Clearaudio Talisman cartridge to the one on the MAc turntable. If you read the MC tt manual, it contains the cartridge specs. They are the same as the Clearaudio Talisman. It is probably the same cartridge rebadged. I think it is about $1k.

It is confirmed the tone arm and cartridge is made by clear audio. the only difference is the channel separation on the specs there for the talisman. Not sure what that means, but one is .3 and the other is .5. the table is made by mcintosh in a joint effort with clear audio going by some of clear audio's best specs and technology according to them.
picked it up today and will try to play tonight if I can get my work done. will let you know
beerdraft

Beerdraft -- cool. Take your time.

Okay I've got it. Man this thing is like a tank. The box is huge and its heavy too. It isn't plug and play ready though as I thought. I've got some work to do. I've read the manual and they went to great lengths to I think make all adjustments easy and idiot proof, which is huge for me not being the smartest guy and all. I'll get back to ya' soon.

Okay, got one more thing I don't understand. The mcintosh guy emailed me and told me the setting for my project preamp and said it should do just fine. He mentioned using low capacitance cables from the turntable to the preamp. What does this mean and how do you tell a low capacitance cable. I have currently tributarys direct (probably not a great cable, but this is all new to me).