Mag-Lev Turntables

To be fair, I heard one at a show. It was only hooked up to headphones, in a noisy room.

For the 2k  pricepoint, I'm sure it's about as good as any? I would stick with traditional, proven construction over novelty. 

If you decide playing records is your bag, reselling and upgrading to something nearing 5K+ retail(phono/cart) gets entry way into "what the fuss is all about" .

My 5K$ may be a point of argument, but somewhere around there is what I hear as "the gateway"

Used is the ticket, just do the homework
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa0jie-rega-rp10-turntable-completed-obm-turntables

For the price, the performance would probably be about the same?
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisa1708-rega-rp6-exact-2-cartridge-turntables

Yeah, I would say 5K is in the ball park for today. We can always hope that the price goes down for better and better sound. I would say it has over the years. Whatever keeps interest in vinyl going is ok with me. The mag-lev might be a lot more fun for entry level than a rega P1 or 2. I’m curious to see if it improves or some part of it spawns the next idea. Worth watching for now if not buying, I never right anything off as one novelty idea just might strike lightning. 

Your choice the Mag-Lev w/a Project 9cc tonearm & a $79 Ortofon OM10 cart for $2197. Or a Rega P6 w/a RB330 Tonearm & an Ania MC cart $795 for two dollars less $2195.

It would be cool to hear those side by side. I have a feeling the Rega wins but that would be a fair bang for buck comparison. Thanks for looking it up. 

Also saw the Mag-Lev at an audio show,  three years ago for me. The turntable was running, but visitors could only listen via a headphone. Not familiar with the LP it was playing. Seeing it running was impressive, though.

Expecting that the demo used a good LP, arm, cartridge, headphone and amp, and was set-up properly, I was very sad it didn't sound right. The music sounded muffled, and also lacking in the high frequencies. That LP was the only one available for listening. I listened only for a very short time.

Looking at the platter floating and rotating by magnetic energy, I could see that the platter was going very slightly side-to-side. I wonder what other rigid body vibration modes are present in this floating platter and how these are controlled. I especially wondered about the modes from the radially-inward-moving, eccentric, downward force applied by the arm on basically a magnetically suspended flywheel.