verdier Platine or Nottingham Analogue hyperspace

@ct0517 

I think it is rather ugly. It is function over form.

La Platine Verdier  is definitely not ugly, especially in OMA plinth, it is absolutely beautiful. I think it's state of the art design. 

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.

You forgot to mention a fax then.
It's not about something "fancy", it's about usability in the modern digital world, when people browse from mobile devices and order everything online to save the time, website can be very simple and almost fee (except the hosting). The time when designers charged too much for a website are gone, websites themes are free and ready to use, the owner have to upload his own images and text, this is very easy. 

The old school communication is OK when you're over 60, but when someone selling super expensive high-end gear and can't even manage a website it's kind of weird. Older people could easily ask their children to manage a website. There are some funny looking old school websites online from such old manufacturers, i bought my Yamamoto amp not so long ago, amazing amp, but company website is a time machine to the late 90's, look at this. I respect the reputation of the manufacturers, but they must think about their younger customers a bit too. Internet changed a lot since the late 90's and ignoring is not a good idea for business. 

This is a nice website from High-End manufacturer and here is another one.  Both are very simple and almost fee to do. 

chakster
Why are you showing us a car without an engine ?
the OMA link you show is a Plankenstein.
The Verdier concept and design has been destroyed.  

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Harold - buying a turntable is like spending money on stocks; but turntables are much more predictable.
In both cases - especially if one is spending a tidy sum on a TT, one must look under the covers first. As this is a resonance vibration activity to generate a small signal, turntables follow the an iceberg analogy where two important areas (bearings/footings) not easily seen, need investigation.
   
Many spend serious money on turntables, which end up needing "further" significant money spent on what the turntable sits on. Then, the turntable stand and the substructure it connects to, needs to be looked at and dealt with .    
IMO - This is not a good way to spend money.

chakster
Why are you showing us a car without an engine ?
the OMA link you show is a Plankenstein.
The Verdier concept and design has been destroyed.  

here is the one with engine, what was destroyed ? 

chakster,
The Verdier stands on three feet, which finally make the drive a mixed concept of mass and spring principle: in the three round recessed made in the artificial stone there are conical spiral springs which, according to Jean-Constant Verdier, are not compressed in the normal state. The damper chambers are sealed airtight (there is a buffer at the top and  thick rubber gasket at the bottom). The height adjustment screws that protrude from the chassis serve to equalize the pressure.  This is spring-air controlled pneumatic acting feet system for additional decoupling of the artificial stone base down to 3 Hz. If you see the technical drawing (cross section) of this Pneumatic Foot, you will be very surprised. This is just one of the many reasons the concept of this turntable to be compared with the ingenious constructions of Leonardo da Vinci. There are more hidden things, but modern audiophiles look at the beautiful pictures on beautiful websites ...

@ibelchev well thanks for the hidden things, very interesting 
however, the answer was given to say it is a beautiful design (original or OMA), you are as the owners can judge the performance, i do not own this turntable and not willing to buy it, but i like the design concept. 

p.s. i'm using AT's pneumatic footers for my audio gear too.