They should charge more for it…


The Absolute Sound magazine just elected the new Wilson Benesch GMT one turntable as their turntable of the year…and awarded it as such.

In the mini review of the table, the author writes, you know something is up when a competitor states..“ they should charge more for it”. Yet, the table under consideration is priced at a measly $302k! Yes folks, more than a quarter of a million dollars! Yet we are being lead to believe that this product is maybe underpriced? 
Interesting attitudes prevailing in high end audio reviewing these days…

Perhaps it is under priced, as maybe it could sell for millions of dollars…to the right audiophile consumers? The Absolute sound reviewer, and lately most audio reviewers, seem to think that any price asked is fine, so long as the piece basically delivers the goods. Are they correct?

daveyf

@pindac ....I’d be concerned by a runaway microdrone armed with a diamond tip running amok in a home.  No telling what other grooves it might find groovy....*ouch*

Personal Transit Drones (PTD’s) are already here for those wanting to try to avoid hitting the local oaks & pines, hedges, and major windows....
"Another commuter found lodged in backyard trellis...."  Can’t wait...:(

"Manufacturer sued over Impact Response Unit ( the IRU....pun?) supplied that responds like an air bag flooding the ’seating’ (?) in a foam cloud that prevents injury but smothers the ’pilot’ in the process...."  Ditto on waiting...

Space-rated leisure clothes...Satellite debris lawn art....Surgically implanted cell phones (a big NO from yours unruly)...Barcaloungers that take ’vibrations’ to a uniquely personal level that you hope it reads your sex right....

The Future: Live it or live with it.....

Seoul, N. Korea just held a ’space-out’ competition and "The stresses of competition hit a new low....".... 

Yes, rancid puns...but let’s chalk it up, as suggested, to a SCC event series.....
Any other explanation will involve drug inter-reactions that are free the first go-round but trigger the ’demand/supply’ sideshows....and a Torx screwdriver up your nose or worse....

 I like ’tech’.....I just hope IT likes Me...

@richardbrand 

Precisely....but having your TT acting just like your CD player portends the inevitable which is better and why.....when the gear is available to make your SET sounds like a D amp (or a ’G’....G whiz, I wonder where it is and how do I touch it?....) *deep 😏 strike*...and at what cost for a recycled concept done 🤷‍♂️ right?

Pro gear allows an amp to sound like it’s tubed; the reverse seems unrequired but doubtless there’s an artist that would embrace it like a porn star....

Born like this, I always wake on the wrong side of bed....if I haven’t found the floor more comfy.... *L* ;)

@asvjerry stated " I’d be concerned by a runaway microdrone armed with a diamond tip running amok in a home.  No telling what other grooves it might find groovy....*ouch* " 

This is already with a proposal for the mitigation,

As stated "  As for non contactless, I'm almost there, I've successfully encouraged a think tank with very knowledgeable individuals about my proposed design for an anchored Micro Drone with a undercarriage that is a Cartridge. "

One of the think tank is a neat whisky sipper, the idea of an alien object ending up in their Dram, was not to be tolerated, they would only continue with their contribution if the Micro Drone was tethered.

Tethering was deemed to be a little loose as control measure and was replaced with the anchoring concept as this gives a much improved control of a movement.    iBut it is again proven - "Great Minds Think Alike", or "Birds of a Feather Flock Together".

It was not expected but requests for the Crowd Fund Link are now being sent yes     

Better to just have a chip imbedded in your auditory cortex that directly receives a signal coded for those neurons to interpret as music, so as to dispense with an audio system entirely.

@lewm 

I already have a memory system that replays music in my head ... and it seems to be entirely composed of neurons!

@asvjerry 

I'd like to see a non-contact version of arm with a sorta stylus that reads the tracing with the accuracy of a disc drive

Hard drives like those found in personal computers do indeed have a read-write head that flies aerodynamically above the disk surface, kept there by the airflow as the disk spins.  Would need to replace the magnetic field sensor with two distance sensors.  I feel an R & D grant application coming on.

As an aside, in counries like Australia venture capital is like unobtanium so governments step in to fill the financing void!