This was asked but in the nd555 thread, i missed it at the time and thought it would be better answered here. It was to do with my turntable v the solstice and my new arm.
Question
How do you know ? The Thales Statement arm is indeed much more expensive. But without comparing, you can trust only the price difference
Well i have heard the solstice to start with.
The Simplicity mk2 arm is already a fantastic arm that tracks with almost no distortion and true, unlike any other pivot arm. The statement takes this even further, with better materials used for sound quality, design, build, and finer adjustments so you can dial in a cartridge better. Plus its know to be one off the very best arms you can buy.
Plus my cartridge is very much better than what comes with the solstice, infact not even close.
Then the turntable itself, this once again is very well made out off a solid billet aluminium the motor is very quite and isolated, plus its battery powered, so no nasty mains, it has a low wow and flutter.
Plus then add that people are already changing thinks on the solstice to inpove it, like the cartridge for a dynavector drt 1t and phono stage to superline/supercap dr which i use, plus i have had 2 off the dynavector cartridges, both sold as they also couldn’t complete with my exquisite ST cartridge.
So to round up, i am very confident that my turntable is better than the solstice and rightly so