Have You Tried the Super Platter

I agree completely with Cincy-bob. I have a Superscoutmaster tricked out with the super platter and rim drive and both are worthwhile upgrades with the rim drive being a very dramatic improvement

Stringreen-Just wanted you to know that I purchased a sealed copy of the Gordon Lightfoot LP on Ebay that you referred to in your other post on the VPI rim job. I will listen to the cut you referred to in order to see if I can hear what you did after you installed the rim job on your Superscout master. Again, this will be on my VPI TNT MKIII (which has one hell of a composite platter)which is basically stock except for the new 300rpm motor (which I can't hear any improvement over the 600rpm motor).

By the way, I don't know whether it's true or not, but I heard a number of years ago that the reason Harry went to the all-acrylic platter at the time he introduced the HRX and the inverted bearing was that the original version of the bearing and thrust plate could not handle the weight of the older-style heavier platters. If true, then I gather that the new Super Platter, which, as Mepearson observed in another thread, appears to be a return to the older-style heavier platters, is evidence that Harry has found an inverted bearing and thrust plate design that can handle the weight of the platter without running into problems with wear/reliability.

No. Save your money buy a used Aries I platter from someone and ask that Harry deliver the unit x platter.

Mepearson - You will enjoy the album. I got it about 20 years ago because it was in a top 10 best recorded LP's - Editor's Best from The Absolute Sound. Also there is Antarctica by Vangelis, Opera Sauvage by Vangelis and a number of others I can tell you about. Enjoy your new purchase