Hoots,

That next step up is in the Music Hall (the MM7) or a ProJect table (wood, RM4 or Perspective) and that will get a really nice arm the Project 9. Three years ago I sold off an expensive table (at least for me it ws), arm, cardridge (had about $5M invested in it) and picked up a Project table that they were trialing with that Project 9 arm. I thought it gave a good account of itself performance wise. I added a Benz moving coil and I was back in business. I missed my old Sota, but with my reduced playing of LPs the Project was not bad. With the Music Hall MM 7 you also get a very nice cartridge. It is worth it as you going to want to upgrade that cartridge in the MM 5 almost immediately. The MM 7 gives you a $450 moving coil as part of the package and a pretty good one from what I hear. Hard to go wrong with that table. I keep getting thinking about stepping back up, but with my level of listening, the upper level Projects and Music Halls will do nicely thank you.