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2023 Editors’ Choice: Best Turntables $10k and Up
- h2odragon 3y agoDon't miss the $15k "Spyder" with "outboard motor" and separate plinths for up to 4 tone arms at once. As art, these things are lovely, and worth what people will pay for them. As an enthusiast for recorded music, whose hearing surpasses the perceptive abilities of normal humanity to the point of being a handicap... Why would one ever go to wax? Analog up to mixer outputs, fine and dandy; but from there we have high rate FLAC now. There's gotta be better ways to do Conspicuous Consumption.
- pestatije 3y agoi wonder if anybody has ever tried storing digital data in vinyl...itd be interesting to see if they can actually surpass cd's capacity
- quercusa 3y agoFrom the full Sota article: At the same time I was also developing an awareness that, performance-wise, my Cosmos had lost a step compared to similarly priced rigs. As with an aging athlete, the years may have taken their toll. Its reflexes didn’t seem as sharp, its sound as open or articulate.