Help me find a Simple Hi End Turntable

Project 9, Rega 25, any my choice would be the Audiomeca Romance which comes fitted with a very good unipivot arm and is a lovely table. Retail price is a bit stiff at 3500; friend just acquired an almost perfect slightly used one for 1250 landed.

The Audio Note TT1 fitted with the Audio Note ARM2 is a very good system for not a ton of money. Used they are a steal if one pops up; about 750 used for the rig.

How about the Nottingham Horizon package. I don't think it gets any more simple. Heck, it doesn't even have an on/off power switch. The reviews are very encouraging too....

Enjoy,

TIC

I am with you on this one. I have a Rega P9/RB1000 with a Dynavector XX-2 cartridge. I find this combo musical and tolerant of surface noise. I did have to go through a careful setup, you should no matter what, even with a Rega cartidge. You need to set the anti-skate and gravity., and maybe a shim or two. I used Wally tools. Hire that out if you need to, it is worth it. them just play the music. These settings make a serious difference, and after they are done, they do not need repeating until you remove the cartridge.

enjoy the amazing potential of lp's.

VPI.
You can buy one with arm & cartridge all ready set up (which is what I did). When it gets to your house it takes about 90 seconds to drop the arm in place, add a bit of oil & plug the arm in.
I've gotten comfy with tweaking and replacing cartridges & etc. on mine now. Else when I bought a new cartridge I could just unplug and lift off the arm & ship it to my cartridge supplier for mounting.
Someone mentioned Nottingham, I thought my Space deck sounded great, but I absolutely hated trying to work with the Spacearm (think red faced, jumping up and down, expletive deleted, type frustration levels), that arm is now in pieces in a drawer. A Nott with somebody else's arm might be a great sounding and still user tolerable rig though.

Metralla had the best advice IMO. Find a reputable dealer or audiophile nearby and pay them to help.

Every rig above my old Fischer-Price needs occasional tweaking and adjustment. That is the nature of trying to make music by dragging tiny rocks through tiny grooves, and there's no getting around it. If you are unable to do it yourself then you should try to find someone to help.

Where are you located? Members here or on VA might be near you and willing to help.