Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ?


I haven't been following this for a number of years. Just curious.

Does any of you have one of those ?

"Top of the range" is British English, that was intentional. When I think turntables, at least under $50k or so, I always first think British.

inna

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dogberry, yes, I don’t hear much about SME turntables. About Nottingham turntables as well, as different as they are.

mulveling, you are right. It’s difficult to even audition them all.

mulvelimg,

I see. Are you also familiar with SME turntables ?

Anyone has Walker ?

mulveling, why did you choose Clearaudio turntable ? Did you compare with other brands ? There is quite a choice at this level.

Recently saw some vintage tube Studer on ebay for, I think, $35k or so. Now that was a thing of beauty.

$150k turntable does not keep accurate speed ? I find it hard to believe. Why doesn't it, what's wrong ?

Yeah, buy them all, compare in your system, keep the one and sell the rest. Now that's the approach.

This looks good, very vintage, very to the roots.

Yeah, that's interesting what tube power supply did there. I have a hypothesis - tubes are just superior devices, whatever you do with them, if you know what you do.

Bill, does the Technics do anything better or not worse than the Kuzma XL ?

How good was that Brinkman with tube power supply ?

I think, the only American turntable that at least used to be there was Walker Audio.

I may be wrong.

Well, we are all biased, it's matter of degree.

Those top tables sound different with the same cartridges, I bet. How do you compare them in your own system, I wonder? Buying $40k+ turntable without that would be...you find the right word.

Dohmann, the same man who designed the Continuum tables. No wonder.

Most will think that belt drive is the way to go, certainly at the top level. But this is an endless discussion. It's like some will only listen to horn speakers. As a tape man, not a vinyl man, I don't think I am biased. Whatever sounds more right to me.

 

No, we are not talking about prices, more expensive may not be better or may be worse. Yeah, and that article was published in 2020. Any price.

Is Continuum still there at the top ?