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suggestions for turntable set up around $6,000.

Wow! I just went to a friends house and heard a good turntable for the first time. I think it is time to take out some old albums and get a turntable. I have a Electrocompaniet cd player but the table sure sounded nice. I am looking into Shelter cartriges, and possibly a VPI turntable, and purchasing through AG will most likely be the path followed. Would like to hear some pros and cons of tables,etc. Concerns would maintance on certain cartriges, durability of all componets. I have a Atma-sphere mp1 preamp and a ma2 amp, Ralph at Atma-sphers said it is a great phono stage and should not have a problem with most mc cartriges. I JUST WANT TO DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME the 6k figure is not carved in stone but with all audio there must be some budget, at least for me. I also would like a table that looks as good as it sounds, all info. is really appreciated.
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rockinroni
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Trese model 255 http://www.teresaudio.com/t-255.html

Origin Live Illustrious
http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?anlgtnrm&1060372521

Shelter 901

some light reading
http://www.high-endaudio.com/rec.html#List

Good luck,
With these components you will not belive how good it will sound. I don't know what your buddy had, but I will bet this will blow him away.
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weiserb
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SME 20 from Juki or VPI TNT locally
ed_sawyer
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I'd go for:

Teres 255

Tri-Planar arm

Shelter, or Benz cartridge

This is what I would buy if I had the $ to burn... right now I dont' so I got something that is damn good for about half your budget... Wilson Benesch Circle table with 0.5 arm and Ply cartridge. Nicely made, easy to set up, and sounds good to me. Maybe someday I will step up to the above rig, but hard to imagine that there is much to be gained, probably on the order of 10-20% improvement over what I have now...

next step is upgraded phono stage... probably BAT VK-P10 for now, (using BAT vk-P3 right now) until the DHT-based tranny-coupled one is finished.

have fun
-Ed
twl
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I also suggest the Teres 255, and a OL Illustrious tonearm and a Shelter 501 or 901.

For reasons that have often been discussed on this forum in the past, I still don't think that a VPI tonearm is a good match for the Shelter cartridges. Others may argue, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
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