PC said

Also, check this out, I am going to hear it tommorrow, John Micheal, your opinion would be nice also on this,

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I am sorry but I have no previous experience with the Ariston tables so anything I contribute would just be guessing. The table that lived the longest in my system was a VPI 19 MK III w/ an ET2 tone arm. I moved from that to a Sota Cosmos w / SME V arm, and then to my current table. Previous to the VPI, there was an entry level Sony, a Pioneer PL45D, then a Transcriptor Skeleton, a little JVC linear tracker, Dual CS-5000 (I was playing a lot of 78 rpm disks)(still got it for that reason) and then a George Merrill modified AR-ES1.

I don't know what your current situation is concerning vinyl playback. From what little I have read concerning the Ariston table, it has the potential for fairly good playback. From my point of view, I am willing to tweak tables but would rather purchase performance as opposed to modding up to it, unless the price of the table was so ridiculously low, I couldn't pass it up (TT are somewhat like speakers are to me although I'm not so caught up in them).