A decent deal?

[humanflyz]

AudiogoN ForSale: Nottingham Horizon with Benz

I've never heard a Nottingham table in my life before, but this deal looks decent. I remember Mike and someone else here had Nottingham tables, but it's a table much higher up in the product line, but does Nottingham have a family sound?

[postjack]

Looking forward to responses on this. I think its the Horizon I've read very bad things about, something about a noisiness that was fixed in the SE version?

[luvdunhill]

well, to move up the older Space Deck you're looking at $1200 (minimum) without a cartridge. So, the Benz probably has a $200 used market value, so the extra $400 represents a decent percentage increase in price.

[jp11801]

At this end of the market I would go KAB modded technics 1200, unless you wanted to try a fixer upper linn lp12

[postjack]

At this end of the market I would go KAB modded technics 1200, unless you wanted to try a fixer upper linn lp12

a 1200 sounds like an excellent idea!

[swt61]

Real men just build their own.

[jp11801]

Real men just build their own.

yes!!!!

[aerius]

but does Nottingham have a family sound?

Yes, but I don't know how far down their product line you can go while still retaining the family sound. I've only sampled their products from the Space 294 and up.

[tyrion]

The Horizon SE is what first introduced me to the Nottingham line. I would say there is a similarity of sound signature in the line, at least with the SE level, which came with a Nottingham arm, not the Rega on the non SE version. I've never heard the non SE version but I suspect it's not too far off. I also haven't heard anything in between the SE and the Hyperspace. I don't know that the deal on this one is so good that you should jump at it. I would perhaps follow Jp's recommendation as an intermediate step to getting a Space Deck.