Linear tracking turntables, whatever happened?

This intrigues me and at that price I am SORELY tempted to give it a try on my Garrard 401....

http://www.airprodigy.co.uk/

This is wierd, I just stumbled on this thread after just picking up a Pioneer PL1000 from a work friend who bought it when he was stationed in Germany in 1982. He shipped it home and never played it much if at all. Well, after giving him $50.00 for it, I got it home, opened the box and Wow this TT is brand new. The dust cover is absolutely pristeen. Pluged it in and every thing works perfectly. Now to research a little more n this TT.

Agree with @jtsnead. I started using a Thales Simplicity II a few weeks ago.

@uberwaltz that air prodigy is definitely a partial copy of the Trans Fi Terminator now being produced in Russia since Vic retired -  https://www.musicfromvinyl.shop/

@twoleftears I caved and I just bought a Clearaudio TT5 to try out

Dragged my old Technics SL-10 out today to take a good look at it. I stopped using it as it had started to sound very sibilant. Plus I had a number of other tables so.
After removing the Azden cart I can see the cause of sibilance. The cantilever was bent to one side, have to put that down to me being clumsy I guess.
Rummaged around in my cart drawer and found an old Shure M-92 variant in a p mount, nice find.
Fitted and sat down and suitably impressed with the SQ in my main rig.

As it takes up so little space I will keep it there for a while and put some miles on it.