As you all know, there's at least two camps of people who like turntables...audiophiles and normal recording engineers, and, like, you all.


Who is the most obsessive of the two?

I think someone just answered that conclusively...

take a look at this $73 K turntable...

http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?258

There are more expensive TT's out there.. i think i saw a 110,000$ one!!
I read in T3 magazine that some psycho audiophile built himself a 1.6 milion dollars stereo system!!!
He had 3 subwoofers, 2 B&W Naotilus speakers (90,000$ each), this 110k TT, a 35k cd player and some other shit i don't remember.. ppl are indeed crazy!

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the Turn Table isnt even GOLD.... for $73,750 its gotta be gold or the needle's gotta be diamond tip or someshit... if i was Bill Gates... i would still think about it... and whats with the "gotta pay 50% up front on ordering" hahahah if i had 50% of that i would be getting laid and smashed and some other shit... some ppl got too much money and it burns me....

You Decide.

i'd buy 2 technics, a nice rane mixer, and 7000 vinyls

Dude, these things are for people who ALREADY have 10,000 vinyls...LOL!

hey well 17000 is still better than 10! hehe

Well, chances are, they probably already HAVE all of the vinyls that they want that are pressed well enough to make one of those suckers sing; it's not every vinyl that can, only the "audiophile" quality ones, which they don't often make any more, both because there isn't enough demand, and because engineers that are trained to are difficult to find....

Well, some people go out and buy a shlick Mercedes and some buy an air driven turntable. I havn't yet read the whole article but as far as I've read absolutely everything is done with air. You need some kind of compressor for that and doesn't that make a lot of noise?

I dunno how it's done, really, but I am *sure* it doesnt make any noise! LOL!

I quote the review.

"Air is supplied to the System III Sirius via an industrial-duty two-head compressor. The system includes an active refrigeration/accumulator that cools and removes moisture from the warm, compressed air, and provides a stage of pulse filtration. The air is then filtered and precision-regulated to 30psi. A 50' air line (which does double duty as a remote power On) is provided so the not-too-noisy, suitcase-sized compressor can be located well away from the listening environment."

So you've got that suitcase-sized compressor in the garage and an ugly black tube running through your entire house. How nice.

Further down it also says something in the lines of: even if you record the output to cd-r the wonderful sound is not destroyed. So there is some sound-engineer in the mastering studio working on a track. If he burns that to CD it will sound worse than pressed on vinyl and re-recorded on cd? Strange.

for that much dough it should friggin record the vinyls and do a bloody dance. id still rather have my techs, though i may be tempted to change if they were dishin them out for free