I'd had the Kuzma for 3 years and realised I'd just stopped listening to records. It just sounded boring. I'd play a record once a month, think it sounded quite nice, and then go back to listening to digital the rest of the time. It was worse after I got the 4 Point, which is a very dull sounding arm. The best the Stabi Ref had sounded was with the cheaper Kuzma arms, my first PU7 (stupidly sold to buy the 4 Point) and even an Alphason,which sounded great on the Kuzma. I sold the 4 Point and bought another PU7, which was an improvement. But the Rega P8 I had next to it sounded faster, more dynamic, more fun and more colourful, so I new the Kuzma had to go.
I decided to try something different, and move away from the usual "high end" turntables. I was interested in an idler, but didn't have the skills or patience to restore a Garrard or Thorens. I also didn't want something huge and immovable. The PTP turntables were getting great reviews - particularly for being dynamic, fun and musical - were reasonably priced and seemed well-built. I took a punt and ordered one, with the upgraded bearing and electronic power supply. After some experimentation with mats (I must have been through 20 of the things over the last couple of months), I settled on a Collaro Tempest, and the PTP is sounding fantastic - everything I was looking for.
Over the last decade or two I have owned a couple of LP12s all the way up to the top spec Radikal, Keel, Ekos SE, an Orbe/SME IV, an Ace Spacedeck with the SME and a Moerch DP6, an AMG Viella, a bunch of Regas including the RP8, RP10, P8 and P10, and until recently the Kuzma Stabi Ref and 4 Point. The PTP beats them all. It sounds huge, colourful, dynamic and fun. There is no lack of detail, and tonally it is perfect. Bass is the deepest I have heard from a turntable and there is an intensity of sound and "liveness" that I have not previously heard from any source. I have not stopped playing records since I got it, and now the situation is reversed. I play something digital briefly, but can't wait to get back to playing records.