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The E is for super high compliance - it's 6g effective mass. H at 8g is the usual suspect for most high compliance carts, and is the easiest to find thankfully. Here's a chart that may help:

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Thank you, that chart is most helpful. As was your photo with the SP-10 (is that considered an SL-1000?). Looking at your V-15, it was in a slightly different spot in the headshell than mine, and I was getting a hint of mistracking when aligning via overhang. Yep, my arm was a mm too close to the spindle. And what a difference that made. All good now after resetting the arm.

I'd like to find a G wand for it.
 
That one is an SP-10R in the OEM plinth for the SP-10MK3 - SH-10B5. The SL-1000MK2 was the SP-10MKII, SH10B3, and EPA-100. The SL-1000MK3 was the SP-10MK3, SH-10B5, and EPA-100MK2, pictured below.

The SP-10R is behind me in my home office as it's the setup I use for testing, needle drops, etc. The unit pictured below is in the temporary upstairs listening room. I'm going to swap the EPA-100MK2 out on that one for an EPA-B500 as most of my carts are mounted on 500 series wands. I'm collecting EPA-100 parts for that B500 as the bearings pins on the EPA-100 are hardened and polished. That one will get those pins and Si3N4 balls.

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That one is an SP-10R in the OEM plinth for the SP-10MK3 - SH-10B5. The SL-1000MK2 was the SP-10MKII, SH10B3, and EPA-100. The SL-1000MK3 was the SP-10MK3, SH-10B5, and EPA-100MK2, pictured below.

The SP-10R is behind me in my home office as it's the setup I use for testing, needle drops, etc. The unit pictured below is in the temporary upstairs listening room. I'm going to swap the EPA-100MK2 out on that one for an EPA-500B as most of my carts are mounted on 500 series wands. I'm collecting EPA-100 parts for that 500B as the bearings pins on the EPA-100 are hardened and polished. That one will get those pins and Si3N4 balls.

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Impressive. I thought that looked like the SP-10R but knew that was the older plinth. Beautiful setup.

The resetting of the arm has made life a lot easier here. You can check and double check but in a mounting like mine there's just enough give for something to fall out of synch when locking it down (I believe the turntable itself shifted when locking it down).
 
Ya, the OEM plinths can be a pain as there are rubber gaskets with the arm board and motor sitting in the indents wherever the original owner had them. The arm boards will slide back in to place if you try to adjust them, though the motor you can usually work with. I spend a lot of time on setup as I’ve several arms and motors and I want the arm boards swappable without adjustment.
 
The E is for super high compliance - it's 6g effective mass. H at 8g is the usual suspect for most high compliance carts, and is the easiest to find thankfully. Here's a chart that may help:

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So if I'm going to go on a hunt for a lower mass wand to run my V-15IIIs etc. the H would probably be the best choice overall?
 
The problem now is actually finding one. I don’t know where this stuff hides and eBay is charging a fortune for the one wand on there.

You'll find more on the Japanese and EU markets. The Expired tab on HiFi Shark will show where in the world they tend to come up, and the cadence.
 
A couple of more observations on the TTS-8000 with the Technics EPA-500/a501h arm.

I spent a good deal of time tweaking the setup of the cart. I've settled on the Audio Technca OC-9ml/2 LOMC after trying the V-15vmr and Stanton 881s MMs. After I got the cart locked in, the performance soared above that of the Stax UA-7cf. My first reactions were based on the OC-9 being somewhat dialed in, and the cart just opened up, smoothed out, and became incredibly dynamic when I got it in the exact right spot.

This is, by no small degree, the best analog playback I have ever had. And its among the best I have ever heard. I'm simply astounded. I've been listening to album after album after album, enjoying the hell out of every one of them. I know its cliche, but I'm hearing some of them, that I've heard dozens of times, like they're new to me.

The TTS-8000 has the smoothness of a belt, the timing of a direct drive, and dynamics of an idler. I love the controls. Nothing on it feels cheap. I get a smile on my face every time I turn it on with its little feather-touch start/stop button. It makes many of the tables I've used feel like toys or basement experiments.

The arm? Holy crap this thing is precise. It's bearings are unworldly in how free of friction they are.

I absolutely LOVE this turntable setup. I've not heard a table at 10 times the price that I like more. Very very happy here.
 
A couple of more observations on the TTS-8000 with the Technics EPA-500/a501h arm.

I spent a good deal of time tweaking the setup of the cart. I've settled on the Audio Technca OC-9ml/2 LOMC after trying the V-15vmr and Stanton 881s MMs. After I got the cart locked in, the performance soared above that of the Stax UA-7cf. My first reactions were based on the OC-9 being somewhat dialed in, and the cart just opened up, smoothed out, and became incredibly dynamic when I got it in the exact right spot.

This is, by no small degree, the best analog playback I have ever had. And its among the best I have ever heard. I'm simply astounded. I've been listening to album after album after album, enjoying the hell out of every one of them. I know its cliche, but I'm hearing some of them, that I've heard dozens of times, like they're new to me.

The TTS-8000 has the smoothness of a belt, the timing of a direct drive, and dynamics of an idler. I love the controls. Nothing on it feels cheap. I get a smile on my face every time I turn it on with its little feather-touch start/stop button. It makes many of the tables I've used feel like toys or basement experiments.

The arm? Holy crap this thing is precise. It's bearings are unworldly in how free of friction they are.

I absolutely LOVE this turntable setup. I've not heard a table at 10 times the price that I like more. Very very happy here.
Where I'm at with my DP-80 as well. I've played more LPs in the past few weeks than I have in some entire years. I put a CD on and sounds *meh* by comparison. The EPA is a wonderful arm and the top end DD drives are things to marvel over.
 
And while I couldn't be coming at this from a more different direction, I think I'm in about the same area with my Rega. It's been a huge leap above where the Kenwood/FR-24 combo was.
 
And while I couldn't be coming at this from a more different direction, I think I'm in about the same area with my Rega. It's been a huge leap above where the Kenwood/FR-24 combo was.
And you know that your purchase of the Rega was what finally inspired me to sort out the TTS-8000, which at the time was collecting dust in the basement. I'd tried to rationalize the Rega myself but figured I should give this another go before anything so drastic. It's good to be in a happy place, and not able to really even think about anything better as anything better is well out of reach.
 
And you know that your purchase of the Rega was what finally inspired me to sort out the TTS-8000, which at the time was collecting dust in the basement. I'd tried to rationalize the Rega myself but figured I should give this another go before anything so drastic. It's good to be in a happy place, and not able to really even think about anything better as anything better is well out of reach.

It really is, isn't it? I've wanted to build my system to a point where the next step up was hugely, and unaffordably, expensive. And to be honest, I can't imagine what I would need above this table. It really is a special piece.
 
Let us get it back to health. If my DP-80 could be brought back from complete death...
I hope so, and thank you for your help behind the scenes. I know we've been on a bit of of a parallel path here. It's filled with things that look very unobtainable but fingers crossed. And it had that smell of electronic death about it.
 
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