Was anyone else caught out by this?


Half asleep this am I looked at the news on cnn.com and this caught my eye:

I actually spent a few seconds wondering which tonearm it is and why Amazon is selling it. Duh!

dogberry

OP

I own one, and I saw a tonearm (I own 5 of them)

Just proof we see what we expect to see, and let this caution us all, we hear what we expect to hear.

germay

Plunk, or Pluck?

Anti-skate is a critical element here.  As in, DON’T wear roller skates while using.

My wife uses it everyday.  As Andy Devine, Andy's Gang, would say, "Plunk your magic twanger froggy!".

TechDAS is now taking orders for tonearm bases to mount this bad boy on an Air Force turntable.

I once saw an ad for a built-in wall oven that had controls on top. My eves saw a Pre-amp sitting on top of an Amplifier. "You know you're an Audiophile when you...".

You've heard of vacuum tables to hold the record flat. Maybe this one applies vacuum from above to improve tracking?

I tried it on a white label promo copy of Laura Nyro's first album, "More Than A New Discovery" and I can report unequivocally that it sucks.