Does your tt punch above its weight.
Dangerous I know, but I got to thinking about totting up how much I've spent on my turntable. Denon DP80 in a ply plinth with rosewood veneer, stands on a 25mm thick polished aluminum sub plinth with the arm pod fixed to the sub plinth. Arm is a Stax UA-70 12" arm with Shure Ultra 500 cart in a Martin Bastin body.
Oh and let's not forget the copper mat.
All in around 2 grand. So I looked on eBay at turntables and chose highest price first and worked my way down to 2k and beyond. First up SME 30 I think with a decent SME arm ( if you like those clinical arms and tt's ) £18000. To be honest I didn't see anything I would swap mine for and that's the absolute truth.
I haven't come to any conclusions yet but am interested in what others think about what they spent and if they think its been money well spent or could you have achieved the same sound quality for less.
Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.