Dear Kipdent: I was a Scintilla owner and understand your choice about, wonderful finish: looks gorgeous.
The MS is very good machine/TT. I own it and made two " tweaks ": one was change the regulators inside the motor chasis and the other was to add inside the platter sorbothane that I cut to do it, the platter is really like a bell. You can try a see what happen.
I can see that you own the Temper W, one of my favorities years ago and in some ways better than its new " brother's designs ".
+++++ " All I can say is wow--I had no idea a source change could make such a tremendous, positive impact " +++++
well " inside " the source is where music comes to enjoy, no better source than R2R master tapes where the signal has not to pass for so many " stages/filters " that made a severe degradation to the recording signal, either digital or analogue one.
Even that fact sometimes I wonder: how with all that heavy recording/playback process where the signal is degraded we still can enjoy the " really imperfect " analog source ( phono cartridges ) through our each one home system?
Btw, the MM analog source alternative is too surprising good and a little different from the LOMC one.
This time nothing more that: Congratulations for that great audio system, very good effort!!!!
Regards and enjoy the music,
Raul.