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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Ultimate Turntable

Post Subject: A Few PointsPosted by dkarmeli on: 5/6/2014

1- Romy, a $200 microscope was shit 30 years ago when I bought mine and is still a piece of shit today. Manufacturing 5-10 SX-8000 type tables a year is inexpensive, its when you go to 50-100 units a year, AF1 market, that cost of operations escalate significantly. Depending on the product the overhead costs in this category have to be amortized over 1000+ units/year not affect final pricing, not going to happen with AF1. You can't and shouldn't define cost vs value based on your wishes, the marketplace should be the judge. Of course that's if you believe in free markets. I don't know anyone who's paid anywhere close to the msrp flying around here.
2- rowuk, musical instruments and playback equipment have nothing in common. The musical instrument is an extension of the musician, the quality of the performance is dependent on the person actively manipulating it creating the performance. The best playback equipment are designed to get out of the way and create nothing. The average Joe sitting in the audience doesn't have to nor is he capable of distinguishing between quality or price of the instrument. Its the musician who should understand and appreciate the differences between instruments! Did you pay $13k for nothing? Final cost of a tt or your musical instrument is dependent on a lot of variables, how do you decide if or what is seriously wrong?
3- The very first true ultra high end REFERENCE quality turntable was the EMT 927 and arguably up to now it still remains as THE REFERENCE STANDARD. For the past 60 years there have been a number of different designs claiming Reference standards but imo only a handful deserve that title and only a couple of which could be called REFERENCE. Given the numerous number of tt manufacturers and turntables made compared to so few true REFERENCE tts, from where I'm sitting all this conjecture regarding design parameters, imo is nothing but mental masturbation!
david

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