HELP PICKING NEW TURNTABLE

I would rather have a VPI if I were you.... easy repair if necessary (great support from VPI), and valuable in the trade in/up market.

VPI TAVELER is a very good plug and play unit. If you can purchase from a local dealer, you can have them set it up and place a cartridge of your choice. Then all you have to do is bring it home and enjoy. You might need a phono preamp if you do not have a phono stage in your Marantz.

Check out basis, his entry model the 1400 is a killer table.

Think our suggestions are showing signs of price creep. The Traveler and the Basis are different beasts, as they should be for the increase in price over a P3 or MH 5.1.

I could not agree more on Basis. I moved from a Rega P-25 to an older Basis 2000 with a Basis modified Rega arm. It was far superior to my Rega table.

Recently I bought a Basis Vector 3 arm and replaced the Rega arm. The difference, to quote my wife who usually does not notice this sort of thing, said "Whatever you changed made more difference than anything you have done before."