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Table upgrade: SOTA Comet? or ?

Looking to upgrade my turntable. Like many others, I'm playing my old vinyl more and buying new vinyl when I can afford it. Four years ago, I bought a Project RM-5.1SE with stock blue point 2 cart. For $1000, it was a nice table to get back into analog again. Now I'm thinking about a SOTA Comet, not sure this an upgrade or lateral move...? I guess the real question is can I make a sizable improvement on a $2000 budget?
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yogiboy
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Take a look at this one!
http://www.hifigem.com/polytable.html
tooblue
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Not knowing anything about the rest of your system and knowing that this is a process I would strap that Blue Point to the best table arm combo I could afford, with that said I would look in the used market for a VPI Classic or better still a Scoutmaster and enjoy the BP till I could upgrade it later, it really isn't a bad cart and you will be surprised by the level you can achieve with a really good table. I recommend VPI because that is where my experience is. Good luck.
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glennewdick
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Get rid of those stock tubes first thing in your phono stage that is your first upgrade. Then like others I’d go for a better cart. If you can swing it a MC will be a huge step up to better sound, something like the audio technics at-art 9 is a huge value at around $1000 new. Look around for tubes but a good source is the tube store and other similar 
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