"Right. Buying a Ferrari makes you a worse driver. Duh."
Ferrari drivers face fierce competition then...
IDIOT PORSCHE DRIVERS, CRAZY PORSCHE DRIVING FAILS WEEK 3 JANUARY 2017 - YouTube
Turntables.....A point of diminishing returns?
"Right. Buying a Ferrari makes you a worse driver. Duh." Ferrari drivers face fierce competition then... IDIOT PORSCHE DRIVERS, CRAZY PORSCHE DRIVING FAILS WEEK 3 JANUARY 2017 - YouTube |
Now the question is, would you buy it if you had the funds, to support it, and go so deep with accompanying components, or ignore it? The possibility that it would sound better than most is hard to tell, as more likely we will never have the chance to try something like this. Being ugly or not is not the point but at that price it should better deliver. Uncharted waters. G |
@audioguy85, My sister has the Pro-Ject Classic (cherry finish) and she loves it. She needed something to play her vinyl from her student days and started off with the decent Pro-Ject basic. She did have some hum issues with the original leads but swapping them over fixed it. I can’t see her ever upgrading from that - knowing her sense of aesthetics. It is a great looking deck and goes well with wooden furniture. |
I saw a Facebook feed about ridiculous things rich people spend money on. The most appalling was loo-roll made of gold leaf worth $1.3 million dollars. Put the £650k into context and it is not so ludicrous.Not sure if they make that £650k version, but the technology was used to design their tonearm which I think is perhaps the greatest contributor to the sound. It has active parallel tracking - its about £30k - not cheap. That said it is better VFM than either an SAT arm or the top of the range Vertere. Think on this - value and price is wholly relative to means. |
@mijostyn has written an excellent post I must say. I think silly money cartridges are exactly that. Better performance can be had with money being spent elsewhere - subs, room treatment... I heard an all kondo set up from cartridge - tonearm wires all the way to speaker internal cables. I was utterly unimpressed by the sound - very coloured with a golden sheen throughout - throwing money at a problem ain't always the solution. |