Thanks a lot Halcro and Audpulse. I was not really away but rather busy, also establishing a small blog ( www.Audio16.com ) regarding walking on some paths in audio I wanted to follow on together with my friend in Paris. I will never forget the fantastic exchanges with you and the other analogue afficiniados on this site. On the other hand I could not develop my Systems Page on Audiogon anymore. I had discussions with the technical people over three months.
I see not so many has changed, Raul is still the captain of MM, all Germans in analogue belong to one group of... and we are still a very sensitive group regarding novelties. Maybe the rules on Audiogon have changed a bit, I don't know who is in charge running the 'let it go' or 'delete'? Hopefully tolerance will return.
When I am now investing in a new TT I am more carefully checking the pros and cons beforehand. In the past I owned some tables I got interested in quickly, like the Goldmund, the Kelch Reference II, the Garrard 501 etc. All this tables had something I liked very much and it was a lot of fun and pleasure testing them in my own chain. I sold all. Don't get me wrong, these are good tables but did not fullfill all of my requirements. You need selling otherwise you run out of space and missing the chance of testing new contenders. This week I said goodbuy to my Naka, it will find a fine home in NY. Now what is next?
Honestly saying no TT of the ones mentioned in this thread draws my real exitement. I am not driven by price only! And maybe some TTs, like the Onedof deserves to stay as one unit at least. I think it is crazy calling for 150.000 bucks for such a design. And we are crazy somehow being pushed into this direction nearly only because of the price tag. I was wondering why Mike Fremer did a test of the Onedof. The Continuums offer much more technology and musicality than most people think. They need to be installed properly, they never were on shows. From my point of view the company missed to bring a smaller version in the 20.000 Dollar region. This is were some people can and will buy, me too. I exchanged many ideas with Halcro on this company topic as he was engaged for a while.
Small progress is progress, too. Who is interested may have a look at my blog which also offers some insight into vintage designs, very rare ones - by my friend. and maybe there will be another big table - some day...
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I see not so many has changed, Raul is still the captain of MM, all Germans in analogue belong to one group of... and we are still a very sensitive group regarding novelties. Maybe the rules on Audiogon have changed a bit, I don't know who is in charge running the 'let it go' or 'delete'? Hopefully tolerance will return.
When I am now investing in a new TT I am more carefully checking the pros and cons beforehand. In the past I owned some tables I got interested in quickly, like the Goldmund, the Kelch Reference II, the Garrard 501 etc. All this tables had something I liked very much and it was a lot of fun and pleasure testing them in my own chain. I sold all. Don't get me wrong, these are good tables but did not fullfill all of my requirements. You need selling otherwise you run out of space and missing the chance of testing new contenders. This week I said goodbuy to my Naka, it will find a fine home in NY. Now what is next?
Honestly saying no TT of the ones mentioned in this thread draws my real exitement. I am not driven by price only! And maybe some TTs, like the Onedof deserves to stay as one unit at least. I think it is crazy calling for 150.000 bucks for such a design. And we are crazy somehow being pushed into this direction nearly only because of the price tag. I was wondering why Mike Fremer did a test of the Onedof. The Continuums offer much more technology and musicality than most people think. They need to be installed properly, they never were on shows. From my point of view the company missed to bring a smaller version in the 20.000 Dollar region. This is were some people can and will buy, me too. I exchanged many ideas with Halcro on this company topic as he was engaged for a while.
Small progress is progress, too. Who is interested may have a look at my blog which also offers some insight into vintage designs, very rare ones - by my friend. and maybe there will be another big table - some day...
Only Fun