Has anyone had any contact or dealings with Basis since A.J.'s untimely passing? I don't hear much about them on the forums or in the press lately. I own 2 of his tables and a vector 4 tonearm. Truly great stuff, hope the business goes forward...
I also bought, but never used, another album to act as the cover disc. It is a picture disc soundtrack for the movie "Benji's in Love" (do you remember that pooch movie star?).
I don’t know if it is still the case, but when i bought my Debut (with vacuum clamp and motor controller), the most impressive thing was the precision machining and tight manufacturing tolerances—you cannot see any evidence of runout when the platter is spinning, which is not the case with a lot of other brands.
I met him twice at shows and he was a soft spoken gentleman that would never bad mouth competitors and would even speak freely about limitations of his own product. He was so open and generous with advice about turntables and tonearms.
My table was built in black, but, it looks grey because I don't bother to dust (I rely on dust damping of the plinth). The platter is covered by a Charlie Rich album someone gave me which acts as a dust cover--it is by a wide margin the record most often on my player, but I have not even played it once.
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