A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Dear Thuchan, You are teasing or you are an optimist. I myself can imagine such a date only in hereafter.

Regards,

Are there any launching dates of Raul' s tonearm and Dertonearm's turntable? Do we see something in 2011?

Now that would be something to see :-). Derts table using Raul's tonearm being aligned with Dert's universal protractor.

Dear Thuchan, the Apolyt will be spinning its 88 lbs platter started by idler wheel drive and kept on speed by tangential thread - force free bearing - this summer in Hamburg, Oberstdorf and near the shore of Lake Ammersee. At least we will all see a few pictures here on Audiogon.
Cheers,
D.

Dertonearm, Will Apolyt be pulling water-skiers on the lake in addition to spinning an 88 lb platter? (Thank you for the metric conversion, by the way.)

Joke told to me by Barcelonian in Barcelona at the Maritime Museum:
The galleon captain says to his slave crew, "I have good news and bad news.
"The good news is that King Philip himself is going to visit the ship tomorrow.

The bad news is he wants to go water skiing."

Dear Lewm, too bad we won't be able to even test that prospective added benefit regarding water skiing - there is no water-skiing allowed on Lake Ammersee due to wildlife-reserve status (many rare birds here ..;-) ... ) and protected shore-side.
So we have to be content with the huge inertia most likely eliminating all prospective derivations from the desired 33 1/3, 45 and 78 rpm.
Good news are - no one has to row for it.
Bad news are - it won't fit on or into any high-end rack out there.
But then it will come with it's own rack air-suspended with 1.5 Hz resonance frequency.
More in summer 2011.
Cheers,
D.