Best set-up for up to 9k retail?

Mejames,my MMF 7 $999 retail is not only better than my Audio Aero Capitole MKII,but MUCH BETTER !! (I have VPI Aries also)

I still own my Capitole right now even though I'm going to sell it soon. I have enough with digital for now.

I know my words above are not a good advise to the buyers of my player. (I should post it later after selling it.. LOL)

I'm sorry to all digital lovers.

TWL-I've read your comments sporadically for 2 years along with everyone else's and you have distinguished yourself sufficiently in my mind to elicit direct email queries from me on numerous occassions.
This time I'll pose a question to you for all to read as I'm curious about your answer and would like to present you an opportunity in this thread to demonstrate how you typically deal with like questions.
How would you compare my Well-Tempered Reference Table and arm with AQ7000 cartridge to the Teres rig you own?
And just remember the words of Jonathan Swift, "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him".
I hope this puts you "Inna" better mood.

Tom, when I get a chance to come out and do a comparison, I'll let you know. I really can't give you a definitive answer on that, because I have not set them side by side and compared. If I said something about it and was wrong, I'd be doing people a disservice, and that is why I didn't say definitively that the Teres is better than the SME, even though I suspect it to be so. I can say the same about the Well-Tempered, but will reserve judgment until I can do an A/B comparison. I hope you understand that I want to be helpful, but calling a shot in the dark is not helping anybody. If you want to get a reference point, the Teres has been A/B'd to the tables I mentioned in my other post, like the Clearaudio Master Ref, TNT, Verdier, Walker, and Basis. If you have compared to any of these tables, you could get a good idea of how things would stack up. The Walker was the only one that was said to be a cut above the Teres, and the Verdier was a tie. All others were beaten in the comparisons done in the systems used for testing. Not everyone may agree with these assessments, but the listeners doing the comparisons agreed on these. YMMV. This was only pointed out to help understand the level at which the Teres performs, and not to glorify it over other TTs.