Basis Turntables: Worth it or Ripoff?

nkonor and ctsooner, I recently retired from a career as a medical scientist (in the field of virology).  Your testimonies reminded me that at about the time I was in med school, nearly 50 years ago, the concept of "autoimmune" disease was described, and there was great optimism that diseases like MS, Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, etc, would soon be understood and made cureable, as opposed to "treatable".  I am very sad that this endpoint has not yet been reached, even after so many years have passed and even as a result of a massive increase in our understanding of the immune system.  My heart goes out to both of you guys, and your posts should make the rest of us who are in good health realize that we are very lucky and that our arguments about audio gear are really quite trivial, even silly, by comparison to what is really important in life.  Carry on.

Why would you call a GREAT turntable a ripoff??HELLO!!!

For anyone who might not know , a Rolex and Bugatti are not worth it .
20,000 kids die of starvation every day .

schubert

For anyone who might not know , a Rolex and Bugatti are not worth it

They are certainly worth it to those who buy them. Or do you think everyone should subscribe to your values and beliefs?

20,000 kids die of starvation every day .

Logical fallacy, non-sequitur.

nkonor and ctsooner, I just backed up and read your posts. Hang in there. There are new biologics coming out every day. Medicine will figure it out.
In the mean while I have several disabled patients I take care of at home. One was a music teach at a local high school. He has Becker's muscular distrophy. He is set up with an Apple Mini and a 6 TB hard drive connected to a 75" TV. He can buy high res files on line and play any music he wants right from his wheel chair. One night we loaded all his CDs into the hard drive for him. No it is not a turntable and it is digital but quite a few of the high res files are better than their vinyl counterparts more than likely due to different mastering. Some of these files will definitely drop your chin.

Mike