What is your most beautiful component?

No contest. Definitely my Cocobolo Teres 245, with the thick clear acrylic platter. My electronics are very plain looking. But my speakers come in second. They are very imposing 6' tall oak panels that are 3' wide(with the wings spread). All that oak, and just a single 8" Lowther driver in the center of each one. They did come out very nice for DIY.

Betcha, yes the Teres TT is better with the lead shot-filled platter. It looks better and it sounds better, than the one that I have. I will eventually get that platter upgrade for my Teres. However, I did talk for a long time with Chris Brady of Teres about this, and we both concluded that the lead shot-filled cocobolo wood base is a more significant sound upgrade than the lead shot-filled platter. So if you start out with the all-acrylic model 135, you get a better sonic upgrade with the cocobolo wood base, than the lead/acrylic platter.I did this when I got that base, and uprgraded my 135 to a 245, and got a shocking improvement. When you have both of them together, as in the Model 255, you have an incredible sounding, and looking, TT. And no matter how good it looks, it sounds much better. It is truly a wonderful high end rig.