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In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable
Post Subject: On the Face of ItPosted by Paul S on: 5/5/2014
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On the face of it, the AF1 represents a "finished high-end product". Clearly, it is well thought out and presented in this way, and this closing/finishing effort was not cheap. And the reasons for this are well understood, because only in this way can anyone reasonably hope to design, build, store, market, ship and service the thing to/for its most-likely customers, who (obviously) have to be in the first place those with the money to buy it. The big question in finalizing a design like this is not so much rote performance, rather, how to best recover the costs accrued in getting the product to the point of sale and hopefully make a few bucks for everyone's time and effort, as well, during the product's life cycle.
The basic elements of a TT are elementary rather than arcane. Too bad weight, in and of itself, is a liability in commerce. And fallout from the "weight issue" affects TTs right down to R&D, where people are +/- forced into "designing around" weight, UNLESS they are aiming their product WAY up market. If you look again at the REGA and imagine heavier, more inert construction and appropriate bearings and drive system, you might actually wind up with something good. Though the Spiral Groove SG1 is meant first to be a "product" competing at a "price point", and it is not cheap in its final, "marketable" form, this might be another +/- "minimal" design to think about in the context of this thread. Likewise, the simple core of the VPI HRX, including the rim weight in lieu of a vacuum.
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