verdier Platine or Nottingham Analogue hyperspace

Jonathan Halpern at Tone Imports.

@lbelchev I just sent you a message. 

@chakster
The topic started 14 years ago, where the fffff you can get Verdier Platine nowadays ?

@chakster

What’s with the attitude? The JC Verdier Company is on your side of the pond. Google is your friend. Me thinks you have probably been down that DD turntable hole a little too long. Time to come up for some air.

JC Verdier Website

http://www.jcverdier.com/

Canada is a bilingual country so the French influence is there.
With dealers nearby I was very lucky to find the rare Granito version many years ago.

From the first record it was obvious.

They are still in business ? The site looks like we’re in the 90’s again :))
I always liked the design of this turntable, i think La Platine Verdier model is beautiful.

But i thought they do not make any turntables anymore, mainly because of the site which looks like the last update was made 25 years ago (my impression and i’ve seen it before).

For example there are many Micro Seiki websites like this, but it’s just history of the brand, they do not make any turntables anymore.

So JC Verdier is still in business in your opinion ?
Reviews and information on that site is from the 80’s and tonearm on that turntables are from the same era like Audio Craft AC4400. It’s a time machine to the 80’s or what ? Did i miss something? 

It’s been my personal experience in this eccentric, analog part of the hobby; that the best and longest lasting companies do not need fancy websites. Just an email and phone number, and referrals.

And as someone who has been in the IT business his whole career, I would be very wary of any Audio Analog company that spent a ton of money on their website. I can give examples of products I own from an era when two channel performance was the main driver. Today, I am sure their marketing takes a good chunk of the budget.

Chakster - i think La Platine Verdier model is beautiful.

I think it is rather ugly. It is function over form. What is beautiful is how its’ design works and plays records. Effortlessly. And it doesn’t ask a lot for a special place to be made for it to live on. Its design has taken care of those needs too.