Dear Sonofjim, Thank you for your detailed response. I am treading on "little cat feet", but I have come to understand that a Krebs-modded Mk3 in a Dobbins plinth would not be too much of a good thing. Mr. Krebs was kind enough to send me some photos of his personal Mk3, and it is sitting in a Dobbins-type set-up, i.e., the motor is taken out of its chassis and directly mounted into his plinth. Likewise, I would guess that a Krebs-modded Mk3 in a Porter plinth is pretty fantastic. But I had no intention of starting a controversy about after-market plinths.
IMO, the difference between now and 25 years ago is mainly the zeal with which those of us in the here and now are approaching the art of playing a record. There was not much of a market for such craziness back then, except the tiny niche occupied by Merrill and a few others. Suspended tables with flimsy plinths, a la Linn, were also more in vogue back then. Fashions change with time. Remember the Woody Allen movie "Sleeper", where he wakes up after 200 years to find that steak and ice cream sundaes are health foods?
IMO, the difference between now and 25 years ago is mainly the zeal with which those of us in the here and now are approaching the art of playing a record. There was not much of a market for such craziness back then, except the tiny niche occupied by Merrill and a few others. Suspended tables with flimsy plinths, a la Linn, were also more in vogue back then. Fashions change with time. Remember the Woody Allen movie "Sleeper", where he wakes up after 200 years to find that steak and ice cream sundaes are health foods?
