Harmon Kardan T65c Turntable

The VPI HW19 MK.IV is an unreal turntable. Amazing turntable, and I have auditioned alot. I like it better than any of VPI's current offerings. I have not heard the classic, and of course, im not counting the TNT. What kind of Light do you use to shine on your strobe disc when checking, or setting speed?? I too have the improved SDS, but have an extra Power Line Conditioner, which I may use with the T65c. I didnt know that about the leveling feet of the T65c. And I will plan on sticking with the Quartz Lock feature. Thanks. What color VPI do you have? How do you like that Lyra cartridge, Nice I bet...Thanks, Ray

The VPI MK IV has in my opinion very few peers. Mine has the piano black finish base. Weak part of mine is the Audioquest arm of which I plan a upgrade next year. The Clavis is a marvelous cartridge never tire of listening to it.

I have enough ambient light here and can read the strobe disc without the need for an additional light.

Just setup a VPI Scout for a friend of mine and became quite impressed with the JMW 9 tone arm. My go with a JMW 10.5 tonearm next year. But the jury is out on that one.

I spoke with Mike at VPI about a new arm for my HW19 MK.IV. Mine is also Piano Black finish. Mike told me that these tables were among the best they ever built, and reason for discontinuing, was that they were just too expensive to make. He said Id be better off keeping the springs, and not using the sorbothane pucks. He said the sound is just too good this way. But he did say that to put a JMW 10.5i Tonearm, along with new armboard would be $2100.00 and if I went with a B Stock arm, it would be more like $1300.00, but Im pretty im pressed with the ZETA arm, and cant afford that kind of change at this point in my life. Ray

The Zeta arm you have is one of the all time best. I would keep ot. To do better will be very expensive. A friend of mine has just picked up Alphason tone arm he no longer wants. Will look at that one in a few days. Back in the day was highly rated.

Yep I did away with the sorbothane pucks as well. The MKIV just sounds better with the springs.

But a new tonearm for me is still sometime next year.

Yes Ferrari,
The Alphason HRS100MC is the Titanium arm from Alphason in the 1980's. It is one hell of an arm as well. I believe it is 10.5 gram effective mass, so will work with alot of cartridges out there, and the armtube is filled with a foam substance to remove some resonance. It was a highly rated arm , in the days of the ZETA as well. Youd just need an armboard, unless your current armboard is a Linn mount pattern, both Alphason and ZETA are Linn Mount patterns, I think AUdioquest is as well, so you wouldn't even need a new armboard. Ray