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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable
Post Subject: High end not high tech yetPosted by steverino on: 5/6/2014
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 Romy the Cat wrote:
David, I think you a bit overly glorify the notion of "precision instruments" that we all are a bit taken in high-end audio. If you go to a good hobby shop and by a microscope for 200 dollars, or lawn mower for $300, or a kitchen juicer  for $300 then you will get a devise that will be orders of magnitude build to a more precise specification then TTs ever seen. With  civilized production discipline the "precision" that TT is made is not a problem at all, if appropriate engineering recourses be put into it. ..... Do not think that I am so naive about the musical instruments pricing, in many instances  they have as much BS as we have in audio and they also sell crappie sounding instruments for very high price. However, the good thing about them that they do not BS each other with neither "cost of raw metals" nor with "precision of making".

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Boy what a great post. The halls of the high end shook a little and they didn't know why. The problem with all these different construction materials and forms is that there is never a systematic correlation with audio reproduction. You would need to keep the other components the same to test them all but that would inevitably favor some TT designs over the others. Thus TT makers can bloviate how the carbon fiber this or acrylic that makes all the difference. I think Paul is correct that weight itself might well be the decisive factor. This would suggest that we don't need to buy a heavy turntable since we can rest it on a heavy non vibrating stand or pedestal. Simply using better construction methods has rescued the old idler drive designs which indicates that high end TT design has never become high tech, no matter how complicated the design. Of course I'm not sure that if we banished all vibration that the result would that pleasing either given the nature of recordings and mic'ing.

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