The Ultimate turntable?

[shoester5]

I'm too a vinyl junkie...I love the warm sound from vinyl.

Between the used price I paid for my Denon, having it completely rebuilt, and a new cartridge, I have close to $1000 in it. If I had it, I would have no problem putting down $15K on a new TT but not that Laser TT.

[DougMac]

As mentioned, the laser TT has problems. The records have to be clean room clean. They can only play black vinyl (I know, big woo). It's also reported that they really don't sound better than a nice sub $1k standard TT.

Someone invented a similar device to play cylindar records. It has allowed the capture of cylinders too fragile or damaged to play with a stylus. See: http://www.christerhamp.se/phono/nakamura.html

I've got ~3k LP's, ~4k 78's and ~2k 45's. I use two TT's to play them, a Technics SP-15 with an Audio Technika arm (not the radio arm) and a Technics SL-1500 Mk 2 I bought from Goodwill for $15.00. I also built a DIY vacuum record cleaning machine that's made all the difference in sound quality.

Doug

[superchad]

The Laser table comes with an optional and now standard "De-Clicker" device to squash clicks and it was reviewed for use on any table but it takes so much life out of the music the review was negative noting the records sounded better with the pops, ticks and life rather than a popless yet lifeless sound.

[jaxvon]

Rockport Sirius System III with the most linear cartridge I could find. Connected to a Boulder 2008 Phono Preamp.

http://www.stereophile.com/analogsou...258/index.html

[Tariq745]

Out of my budget