Maybe yes, but I didn't found some.
What I found, is sometimes a technical overkill, but it didn't move the curtain.
(3x Continuum, 3x not working properly, or Goldmund Reference with its moving tonearm...). More or less it is the way someone else described some time ago:
From "you-know-who" :-)
"The market flooded with dozen and dozen different turntables. Im perfectly fine with a large number of $200-$500 turntables. They do not pretend to sound neutral and they cost accordingly. However, what to do with an army of $1000-$75.000 turntables that sound identically to their $500 counterparts, cost hundred times more and accompanied with all imaginable ** about their irrelevant designs, the ** structured only to convince the gadgets-minded Audio Morons that they should be sounding better...."
We benefit from nothing, no better materials, no better tooling, that is all nice to read but at the end of day they all sound similar (average).
Engineered knowledge, knowledge in material structures, knowledge in material composites is somewhere else, but not in High end.
High End is on the way to be a Boutique product. Nice to look at, expensive but inside it is nothing special (=cheap).
I would not say, that Vintage is generally better, there are a few Designs I wouldn't touch, but you will find a few, where some thinking was done right.
How many of the Designs today have a suspension down to 4 Hz? How many have dampened Armboards, or multilayer platters? Or vacuum? Or some other designs to create a silent area for the needle?
Most today are nice to look at, they are heavy (that's cheap to make) and some are simply black. We, the customers, get what we deserve:-)
What I found, is sometimes a technical overkill, but it didn't move the curtain.
(3x Continuum, 3x not working properly, or Goldmund Reference with its moving tonearm...). More or less it is the way someone else described some time ago:
From "you-know-who" :-)
"The market flooded with dozen and dozen different turntables. Im perfectly fine with a large number of $200-$500 turntables. They do not pretend to sound neutral and they cost accordingly. However, what to do with an army of $1000-$75.000 turntables that sound identically to their $500 counterparts, cost hundred times more and accompanied with all imaginable ** about their irrelevant designs, the ** structured only to convince the gadgets-minded Audio Morons that they should be sounding better...."
We benefit from nothing, no better materials, no better tooling, that is all nice to read but at the end of day they all sound similar (average).
Engineered knowledge, knowledge in material structures, knowledge in material composites is somewhere else, but not in High end.
High End is on the way to be a Boutique product. Nice to look at, expensive but inside it is nothing special (=cheap).
I would not say, that Vintage is generally better, there are a few Designs I wouldn't touch, but you will find a few, where some thinking was done right.
How many of the Designs today have a suspension down to 4 Hz? How many have dampened Armboards, or multilayer platters? Or vacuum? Or some other designs to create a silent area for the needle?
Most today are nice to look at, they are heavy (that's cheap to make) and some are simply black. We, the customers, get what we deserve:-)