RE: Wow, I like the changes, especiallty the vanilla top plate. How did

That is a nice looking AR, bet it sounds great.

Marc Morin built my player and put his updates in it. The arm wand is a new piece sourced from Technics. It gets internal dampening material installed, and it is rewired with the KAB arm wire. The vertical pivots get updated with highly polished pins, and the pivots are changed to a sapphire lined V-Block arrangement. I sourced a Yamamoto HS-1A ebony head shell for the table for higher mass so I could run a MC cartridge. My cartridge of choice is a Denon 103M, but I also use an Audio Technica OC 9 III on it.

The top plate is painted in a metallic cream, which the picture doesn't show the finer detail of its color. The flash or ambient light kind of washes out the picture to where it looks more white than cream. There are flecks of copper and gold in the paint that add the shimmer. I personally appreciate how it offsets against the Lace wood finish.

The XA is my least expensive table, but I am amazed at how well it performs. It is my daily driver for casual listening, and if I want to get serious about spinning some vinyl, well I don't feel cheated if I don't swap over to the Serac or 124. And I have a 401 and a SP 10 MK II waiting to have their plinths finished up. What I do need is a decent digital camera so I can take a good pic of the XA.

Regards
Mister Pig

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Topic - AR AX T.T. - jtpzenith 15:48:19 04/28/16 (22)

RE: AR AX T.T. - john 07:25:05 04/30/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - Mister Pig 07:50:11 04/29/16 (5)

Wow, I like the changes, especiallty the vanilla top plate. How did - alaskahiatt 21:33:41 05/3/16 (4)

RE: Wow, I like the changes, especiallty the vanilla top plate. How did - Mister Pig 05/4/1606:49:55 05/4/16 (3)

Ah, the tonearm looked so much like the original that I couldn't tell. - alaskahiatt 08:49:39 05/4/16 (2)

RE: Ah, the tonearm looked so much like the original that I couldn't tell. - Mister Pig 09:01:47 05/4/16 (1)

Thanks for the details and suggestions. I have never checked my VTA - alaskahiatt 11:42:23 05/4/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - briggs 07:15:57 04/29/16 (8)

RE: AR AX T.T. - hahax@verizon.net 12:24:28 04/29/16 (4)

RE: AR arm damping - M3 lover 17:15:52 04/29/16 (3)

RE: AR arm damping - hahax@verizon.net 20:28:13 04/29/16 (2)

RE: AR arm damping - Bill Way 16:45:23 04/30/16 (0)

RE: Mayware - M3 lover 11:32:09 04/30/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - sberger 08:16:30 04/29/16 (2)

I have one of the aftermarket headshells. - ToddM 10:46:20 04/29/16 (0)

I did not see any headshells on ebay.. - briggs 09:18:37 04/29/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - painter27 17:55:20 04/28/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - fstein 16:42:38 04/28/16 (1)

RE: AR AX T.T. - sberger 08:22:39 04/29/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - 6bq5 16:05:18 04/28/16 (0)

RE: AR AX T.T. - SteveBrown 15:55:35 04/28/16 (1)

RE: AR AX T.T. - sberger 08:23:19 04/29/16 (0)

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RE: Wow, I like the changes, especiallty the vanilla top plate. How did - Mister Pig 05/4/1606:49:55 05/4/16 (3)

Ah, the tonearm looked so much like the original that I couldn't tell. - alaskahiatt 08:49:39 05/4/16 (2)

RE: Ah, the tonearm looked so much like the original that I couldn't tell. - Mister Pig 09:01:47 05/4/16 (1)

Thanks for the details and suggestions. I have never checked my VTA - alaskahiatt 11:42:23 05/4/16 (0)

RE: Wow, I like the changes, especiallty the vanilla top plate. How did

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