I think i'm ready to give my first impressions of this wonderful combo!
I'm amazed how little surface noise you can ear through the speakers, it plays almost in silent, it generates a black background and all the information is displayed in front of it, a big airy sound stage, my records are all well taken care of, but some older ones that i've bought used always had some click and pops, played with the 1012gx, but close to none are felted with the Elite MC, it seems that i've clean all of them again.
Every record i play i'm left with a BIG smile on my face, you all know this expression when we got a new toy: "for the money this is as good as it gets"
Well my friends it can get even better, and not spending that much.
I've reach a all new level in this hobby, i know i've a lot ahead of me, when my Rega dealer was fitting the Elite cart my wife and I were hearing the new RP10/DYNA DRTXV1S with the Aria/Elicit R/RS5 with those Blue Note new editions LPs and oh boy, we could be seated on that sofa all day long .