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Tz, glad you have found a table that floats your boat. The Well Tempered is marvelous as well. I enjoy a Well Tempered arm on my SOTA turntable.

Since you have a pre disposition for unipivot arms you might want to give a listen to a Linn with a Naim Aro, or one of the more current unipivots designed for the LP12, the Tiger Paw Javelin or Audio Origami Uniarm.

Or, you go with a Well Tempered Arm on the Linn. That’s what I use and it’s a superb match up. The ‘Black’ arm has all of the imaging qualities of the Naim Aro with none of the downsides, IME.

And what downsides would those be? Not that I have any interest in imaging, it’s all tone for me.

When the LP12 was $1200 (originally $560 in 1976) it was a good value. Now at $5K + it is NOT! I am now on my second one, bought used from a seller in England for less than $1K used! Came with a Grace 707 arm. It is an earlier version without all the (stupid) tweaks - and sounds excellent!

The LP12 is a good value if you can find one used for about $1200 or less used - like I did!