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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable
Post Subject: Assumptions...Posted by dkarmeli on: 5/3/2014
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 Paul S wrote:
David, of course the item under discussion would not exist at all unless someone "saw" it before he or she built it...

Setting that aside for now, Lord knows I try to Keep It Real when sharing thoughts about hi-fi. With this goal in mind, will you please list the "many wrong assumptions" I've committed to in my previous post?


Best regards,
Paul S

Hi Paul,
I'm not trying to get into a pissing match or offend anyone. From where I'm sitting your assumptions start with the phrase over built, this is incorrect, MS and AF1 are quality built. I''m not sure what you're referencing as past SOTA tables, certainly the MS tts were at the top of any list and they all came with stainless steel platters as did the money no object American Sound turntable. So your assumption that SOTA tables were all made from other materials is not quite true. The beauty of the air bearing is that there's so little to it and manufacturing cost is less than a traditional high end bearing of equal sonic quality and capability of friction free rotation of a platter of such mass. MS and AF1 air bearings are maintenance free.
Solid belt used with AF1 is the same as previously supplied Micro SF-1. This belt has no humps and doesn't stretch or slip, can't have anything more neutral than this. I'm told that Basis also make a solid belt that's supposed to be just as good, they also have a comprehensive white paper on sonic benefits of this type of belt.
david

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