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My long-suffering wife has let me pull the trigger on this, to celebrate my upcoming cake day, SOTA Escape Turntable with Origin Live Silver Tonearm & Condor Speed Controller . The open box price works out to a free Origin Live Silver tonearm.

I want to stay made in USA for the cartridge. The Soundsmith Otello or a Grado are my short list. SOTA is using Grado at CAF with their upcoming Quasar table. I’m really excited because this will be significant upgrade for my system. I hope to hear what I think I am missing.
 
VPI Avenger running an Audio Technica AT-MC2022 Excellence 60th Anniversary cartridge through new-make Tannoy Canterburys is my setup of the show.

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I cannot accurately express in words how much I hate the look of:
-broadly gestures in general direction of picture-

it's like "Between Two Ferns - Mismatched Stereo Component Edition-
 
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I cannot accurately express in words how much I hate the look of:
-broadly gestures in general direction of picture-

it's like "Between Two Ferns - Mismatched Stereo Component Edition-
At first, I wanted to say, “at least it looks great outside the ferns.” Then I looked closer, and I have to ask what exactly are those Tannoys sitting on?!
 
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