Turntable prices. Is my mind going?

Happy Easter supper....

@fleschler

Outstanding, bet your system sounds great. But I do suspect you are an audiophile.

I was shocked by prices and weights - but now I'm accepting that probably many of these turntables are bought for beauty and pride. I'd like to retract my "audiophools" adjective. I'm sure, as long as the mechanical parts are working, these tables can reproduce music at a highly satisfying level. As I heat these days "my bad"  :)  However, having heard a shootout at Mike Lavigne's house (via youtube) to my ears the Wadax trounced the spinner. It's about time  :)

On the subject, I don't know how a 10K (20, 50, 100, etc.) turntable can be better than a 2K turntable. Needle, yes, I can see the needle making a big difference. But arm, platter, plinth, etc. just all do a very simple job.

This doesn't mean that I think that people who spend 10s of thousands on a turntable are snobs or make bad decisions. All it means I don't know.

Maybe some day I will...

At least you admit that you "don't know". That's a good place to start, rather than to think that if it's cheaper, it must be as good or better. as some do.  There's a great line from the movie "A Thousand Clowns", which came out in the early 60s and is one of my favorites.  Martin Balsam plays financially successful older brother to Jason Robards who plays a sort of devil-may-care beatnik type who is financially careless at best. (There were Beatniks in the 50s and early 60s.)  The two brothers are having an argument about life philosophies, and Martin Balsam says to Jason Robards, with irony, "I get it. If I'm so smart, why aren't I poor?"  The take home lesson for audiophiles being sometimes there is a correlation between cost and quality, but not all the time.