Very good comparison and analysis of your 301 pathway to the future based on the SME work. I like your logical approach and thinking process to try achieve even greater performance from your 301. It's always a wise thing, as I have found, to look a what others have done (no matter what the cost!) in order to see if you are on the right path and if there are things to learn in order to improve your gear and hopefully listening experience.

Obviously we don't all have the resources or time the specialists companies have but through our endeavours there are always economical and "home brew" technology that can be used to raise the bar. I know your efforts in this area for all your turntables has been very thorough and realised great improvements.


What would be most interesting would be a back to back listening session comparing your TT with the SME and to see/hear what differences there are and which one you prefer however I suppose determining which parts contribute to those differences could be tricky?


Great post Andy.