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From: "Arny Krueger"
Date: 5/6/2004 4:28 PM Pacific Standard Time
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S888Wheel wrote:

OTOH I think many inovations over the years have improved the sound
from the table/arm/cartridge part of LP playback since the early days
of LPs.

I remember listening to LPs about 4 years after they were introduced. To say
that the sound quality of playback equipment improved since then is a gross
understatement. IMO, the rate of improvement was fairly decent until the
early 70s.

What was SOTA in the early seventies? The AR table? What cartridge? What arm?
That is way before my time. I got into it around 83. Then the Goldmund
Reference was state of the art. That was superceded by the Versa Dynamics 2.0.
IMO a pretty noticable improvement. Then the Rockport then the Forsell. Each a
noticable improvement over the one before it. These tables all pretty much all
kill the old AR tables. Am I overlooking something from the early seventies
that competes with these more modern tables?

There was then a long dry spell in significant improvements of front-end
quality until CDs came out.