SOL

[mark]

Incoming!

Had a chat with Santa last night, and he let me know what was heading my way...

Designed and manufactured in the USA.

Cast aluminum tripod frame. A straight, 11" carbon fiber, uni-pivot, tone arm. My Technics SL-1200 MK5 has a 9" aluminum, gimbaled bearings, S-arm.

This turntable reportedly punches well above the price point into some pretty expensive territory.

I look forward to the A/B comparisons and which ever table I like better, will stay. Or, maybe I will just move the loser to the basement rec-room.

[Copper]

Your Justin Bieber album will sound like Pavarotti

[Larry]

Link to video

[mark]

@Copper said in SOL:

Your Justin Bieber album will sound like Pavarotti

WTF?

[Copper]

I assume a device like that would improve the sound

[mark]

It will be different than my current Turntable. I hope it improves the sound but I have no idea if it will do that.

I just like that it is a turntable for people who like to experiment and tweak things. It also has features that don't come on a lot of turntables until you start talking crazy money.

It isn't crazy money, and I like supporting US companies that take risks like this.

[brenda]

Looks fun, Mark!

[mark]

Santa arrived a little early...

It sounds amazing. We listened to 6 albums yesterday. Each one revealing things that I had never heard before. The soundstage is very wide and deep. Extending beyond the physical placement of the speakers. As it should be.

The Grado cartridge/stylus is designed and manufactured in the US as well. It was an optional $150 upgrade. Yes, it is in a Maple, wood housing. It's the newest member of Grado's Timbre line of moving coil phono cartridges. Their first "affordable" ($275) moving coil, wooden cartridge. Grado has a cartridge that looks very similar called the Epoch 3, yet it costs $12,000.00 Yep! freaking 12k for a turntable cartridge. lol

Very happy with the purchase. I will be doing a lot of listening and comparisons between the SOL and the Technics SL-1200 MK5.