THE GOLDEN AGE OF TURNTABLES!

Hi,
why do i have the feeling that the inspired and top notch tt’s of yesterday if manafactured with todays standards and materials would most likely outperform (in musicality at least) the majority of current silly designs? Everything is not information retrieval, if cannot play the song. All of the above mentioned by @edgewear plus a few more will sure do. Even that scottish suspended one with airpax motor and that english one from the 50’s stand the test of time, especially the latter is again in production, at a cost. Only thing that changed is media revealing what we were not aware of at the time.

@petg60, 

"Only thing that changed is media revealing what we were not aware of at the time"

If by this you mean audiophile reissues, even that ain't the truth. The best original vinyl pressings from the Golden Age will sound better than those reissues. Really? Really.

Hi,
probably misstyped, press is the right word. Original pressings do sound better, no argue here.

First Dutch economist are the so called ''mercantilist''. Their
theory was in short: ''buy cheap and sell expensive''. This was
in correspondence  with  their experience with the West Indian 
Company . What they overlooked was  the monopoly position
of this company ensured by their Navy. Ricardo refuted this
theory by asking the question: ''what will happen when we all
try to do so''? 
Tuliponania was also in correspondence with experience. 
Each day higher prices on the stock exchange... 
Well what would happen Ricardo anticipated but, alas, not many
Dutchman.   

Dear petg60, the only thing the audio 'press' does is to hide the truth and try to convince us that the newest is always the best. It is what keeps the business going. They're the industry's mouthpiece.....

Dear Nandric, do you mean Turntables ARE today's Tulips? They seem to follow the "buy cheap and sell expensive" theory of  'mercantilism'. Come to think of it, so do Cartridges. Even more so, as they don't require much stuff to buy at all, cheap or otherwise. But everyday higher prices......