Does the magnetic levitating platter make all other designs superfluous.No bearings!


This could be a game changer but we will have to see if the high end mafia embraces it or dumps it into the east river after chopping it up into small pieces.Time will tell.

brucegel

Well, magnetic levitation is not new but doing this minus a central main bearing probably is. My gut feeling is "East River" but I don’t want to be too premature.

My main concern would be that the conventional closed mechanical loop enabling mechanical grounding of the bearing would not exist here. This departure from convention is not unprecedented so it boils down to implementation.

Certainly it would mean less noise but the problem for me lies in the fact that you are not only trying to shield the stylus from external interference, i.e. from the support and environs, but that the replay process creates its own energy which must also be "managed".

  1. Is this a joke? It’s getting very hard to tell. I just got punked over on another thread by some mag lev turntable. Did you get punked too? This sounds more like it’s in the perpetual motion machine category.