I forgot to mention that the Rotel to which I referred in my last post was actuallt the Transrotor Argos... not Rotel. My apologies. The Transrotor sells for $250k. You can find it here... http://danielstout.com/2009/03/the-new-top-end-of-turntables-the-250000-transrotor-argos/ .  Sorry for the...

I actually have two PS-X7's.  One is equipped with a standard (non amplified cartridge) and the other with an Ortofon (sorry I don't remember the #'s) cartridge with an Ortofon Preamp. Either of these will play phenomenal sound from mastered records.  In fact I would be willing to put the PS-X7...