A Copernican View of the Turntable System

Dear Nandric, today in audio the big buck is no longer made by trickling down. Unless you have very large production facilities, huge output and the subsequent large quantity discounts with materials procurement, you have little chance to really make good profit that way.
At least not in high-end analog audio any longer.
Too small total numbers.
As a good portion of our passion deals with proud ownership and image, high priced gear sells better today than most modest price components.
Especially as this type of consumption is nothing one exhibit in public.
Setting up serial production for a US$2000 turntable is just as hard and time consuming as doing the same for a US$12000 turntable.
And it is the planning and setting-up of production which is really the challenge.

The messenger deserves an extra discount. Oh no- not again this kind of habits and exchanges without staying to one's product. I have experienced this in Germany, pls. not here on Audiogon. Hope I am wrong on that - we will see in the future...

Best & Fun Only

Does anyone knows someone who actually has bought an Onedof turntable.
Would be interesting to learn which tt it superseded and whether the owner has any thoughts/comments about it performance.

Thanks, Banquo, for going to the source. I won't understand the design unless or until I see a good engineering drawing of his bearing, nevertheless. I got nothing from his description, but he is to be credited for trying. In a sense, I agree with Raul, I hate to see us audophiles condemning a piece of gear for its price, per se. But I also agree with the others who look at this turntable and cannot see where is the $150,000-value. This is the designers fault for not using enough chrome and lucite doo-dads and for not including an elaborate stand to hold the whole thing up. These latter items tend to make us "believe". Look at that Clearaudio Statement, for example. Now THAT's good marketing. (The product makes me ill, however.)

The YouTube video is ridiculous. There are dozens of turntable/shelf combinations that can pass that test for well under $10,000. But it does not prove the tt is not "worth" $150K, either.

Dear Lewm, yes, no chrome - but look at that shiny golden finish. Given the sky-rocketing gold price of recent months, that should give enough cosmetic proof of quality in the mere audiophile sense we're accustomed to these days.
BTW - what song/singer is that in the video?
Me being music-wise rooted in the 1950s and 60s with very little of modern origin, I would honestly like to know.
I kind of like the tune.