I have owned the IIX in the past. The arm seemed to be acceptable. It was the Premier and I used it with a Grado G-2. It tracked well and sounded pretty good. The glass platter kinda threw me off a little but I used a homemade acrylic mat and that worked well. I used the table for about three years until I purchased my Linn. At the time I also had a Thorens TD 160 Super with a MAS arm. The Thorens sounded a little fatter and more musical to my ears but there was a different arm and cart so take that with a grain of salt. As a second system or starter rig it would be nice but the parts a re hard to come by.