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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Rim drive?

Post Subject: List of IdiociesPosted by Serge on: 4/29/2011

Oh, yes. there was a plenty of absolutely stupid ideas implemented and copied incessantly in turntable manufacturing.
The gross one is of course the magnetic suspension to ease up the work of the platter bearing. Not mentioning that it is a very unlinear suspension at best but the sane designers immediately argued that it is equal to throwing stones in a galsshouse. Why on earth would you need a magnetic field strong enought to hold a (part of) platter weight near a (MC) cartridge which actually relies on alternating magnetic field to produce useful signal?
I think the idea first was realised in high end by Gabriel Turntables (probably a rip-off of some Japanese company's technology exercises which they were fond of then) then JC Verdier tried it out but abandoned soon. Then some German company, probably Clearuaudio, picked it up again and now you have Transrotor doing the same and all copycats following. True case of blind leading the blind.

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