Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ?


I haven't been following this for a number of years. Just curious.

Does any of you have one of those ?

"Top of the range" is British English, that was intentional. When I think turntables, at least under $50k or so, I always first think British.

inna

Wow it looks like you can buy most of those tables on Amazon. How can you go wrong! 

 

Wow it looks like you can buy most of those tables on Amazon. How can you go wrong! 

I clicked through for the Clearaudio Ovation. The link is for the belt. laugh

@jwei VPI absolutely belongs on this list. But made in Brooklyn somehow lacks the cachet of more exotic manufacturing locales like Scottish Highlands, the Black Forest or some medieval city in Eastern Europe.

VPI also doesn’t adopt contrarian logic like arguing with the basic laws of Newtonian physics like F=ma, and unlike certain British turntable makers and their penchant for using tiny torque-free clock motors.

However VPIs do routinely run at the correct speed. Quietly, and pretty much forever.

 

 

@panzrwagn

“Scottish Highlands” Do you mean Linn? They are in Glasgow for goodness sake. Hardly an exotic locale.

I don’t doubt the VPI is a superb turntable, but warning bells always ring for me whenever anyone mentions the laws of physics.