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Re: You don't give the rb300 enough credit...

First of all, you're comparing a Basik to an OL250, which is in a totally different price class (4x the price of a new Basik?).

Fair enough, though my arm is 3x (no rewire of external wire) and the Basik price that I assume you (and I) are going off of comes from the Linn FAQ and is 15 years old. Update that sucker and I'm not so sure we're in altogether different price categories.

My point in that older thread (where I wish this discussion had come up), was that not everyone would agree with tossing a Basik Plus in favour of an RB300. They're not so far apart that there isn't room for personal preference.

All I can say is that on the Systemdek they do seem that far apart -- unless the ground rules for comparison are that "personal preference" can always have trump status and that there will (statistically speaking) always be folks who are on the tail end of the distribution in terms of how they prefer things to sound. Of course, I may be radically wrong. I'm kind of inclined to bow to your experience, Dan, in terms of what folks have said. That is, you probably have a better understanding of the objective distribution of comparative listener responses to a Basik vs. a Rega in a Systemdek than do I. Just in case you don't, though, I offer my own subjective listener response, where I found the results quite clear-cut.




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