Another hi end direct drive turntable

Yep, with a bit of haggling could be a great buy for someone with a spare few £ laying around looking for a home. Wish I had some!!

I am not sure how much there is to be gained by making that move, but i certainly would do it if funds permitted. It may be a giant waste of money?

That's the thing isn't it. If you hold off....you may not!

small improvement - if by that you mean it wont be night and day / very obvious then in my experience genuine improvements in this game are more often not to that immediately obvious and apparent degree - However, spending time, getting through albums, tunes, you really start to know and realise the improvements that come through.

My SL1210 you'll remember was also heavily modded but the music through my SP10 sounds better, more spot on to my ears and that's more about it as a platform, where it pretty much disappears out of the way and lets the music / set up do its thing, without any hindrance that I can detect whatsoever. 

   

Let’s be honest. Once you have a good motor unit, that spins the record at the correct speed, and minimises vibrations, the arm may flavour the cartridge output, depending on what it is.

It's definitely not a cart flavour change when you upgrade the arm on a very good motor unit.
When I 1st got my Bardo I was running and Encounter 3C, early last year I upgraded to a Conqueror 3C (same cart) and I was staggered at the difference more detail, bigger soundstage, the space between instruments......... This year I started playing with Koetsus and had a Black on the Conqueror when I upgraded to a 12"Enterprise Mk4, again there was just more of everything and if anything the sound became more effortless. The Enterprise allowed the Black to show its full potential, I've since changed to an RSP, whilst OL have 2 and soon to be 3 arms above the Enterprise I'm more than happy where I am. So arms do make a real difference if given the right foundations.

My SL1200 has cost me around £1.5k total. Bang for buck, you will have a job beating it.

Arms do have a flavour. Most ring, or have a frequency spike from plots I have seen.

It really is a shame you don't live closer, K.

The 1200 does need a better arm than the stock one though if it is to properly compete with the super decks.

I've heard them with all sorts of levels of mods but there was one that had only had the arm changed and it was a big step up. I didn't expect that at the time.

After that the step up to the SP10 is smaller but still significant.

Turntables probably the only component where absolutely anything that you do to it really does make a difference, positive or negative.

100%

So have any of you guys tried the same arm that you have had on an SL1200 on the SP10?
From the looks of it, you have all upgraded the arms, so you are comparing apples with oranges.

Cheapest one for sale on HiFi shark is €2.5k

Then it needs modifying, and a new arm.

Never said it was….