New AMG tt just arrived.

Dover, It is indeed "unbalanced", if you want to balance it on the head of a pin. But I do like the way the plinth follows the curve of the platter on one end. In my belt-drive days, I had come to the conclusion that BD tables thus designed have a more open sound with more "air" around the musical presentation than do BD tables with conventional rectangular plinths that therefore have a flat deck surrounding the platter on all sides. Why? I don't know. My guess is that the wide flat deck of conventional tt's may reflect the mechanical noise (the faint music you can hear when you are close to the spinning platter), produced by the stylus passing though the grooves, back at the cartridge, causing deleterious feedback. This tenuous hypothesis was based on very limited experimentation in my own system (one or two tt's of each type). But Notts, Galibier, Redpoint, Teres, da Vinci, Yorke, and many many other high enders adopted that design type, a heavy circular platform under the circular platter. (The old open deck style has been creeping back into vogue in recent years, however, a la the VPI Classic.) I don't know whether this rule of thumb would transfer to idler-drive or DD, but I've thought about it. Unfortunately, all the tables I now own do have the rectangular deck around the platter. Go look at the AMG website; that thing is impressive in all aspects. I think it costs ~$12K, and in today's market, for that level of build quality, that's a relative bargain. (It's at the top end of what I would ever consider paying for a new tt, if I were in the market.)

I think it's a German company, and the choice of the name is indeed a bit gimmicky, but it won't make the table bad if it's good, or vice-versa. It's only a name. Here, "A" stands for Analog, not Auto.

Documentroom, My apologies. I had not noticed that you have a system page.

Very nice looking table, bet it sounds great.
Congrats.

Lewm - fyi I was corresponding with DJ Casser of Black Diamond Racing quite a lot during the past year before he died, and interestingly he was adamant that the move to platforms that had curved sides, either concave or convex, did indeed dissipate energy better with their product.

This turntable Design remembers me very much to another German Manufacturer, Brinkmann.
I guess, Germans love black units :-)

Syntax you are correct there is some relationship that is or was going on in the past. The designer of Amg owns the factories that manufactured parts for brinkman tt. Werner Roeschlau whom I met at CES last year, I got to say he is extremely nice. The room was packed with people trying to get face time an chat about his design. Thing is I'm 6.2 and full tattoos I don't look like your average audiophile. I'm a retired music producer and studio owner who fights mixed martial arts for fun. So I was blown away by his interest to spend so much time with me discussing what makes his arm and tt unique. I've been going to ces for years and this was the first time a designer cared enough to go in to length about his product with excitement and energy And I didn't even own one at the time. Werner is extremely intelligent in all aspects of his design. Lewm said it best it's not about what the tt name is but more about how the tt interprets the needle in the grove and makes music. And as for the price of admission with the AMG I think it is fair. I can only assume that by owning the factories and machines to manufacture his design the savings was passed on to the purchaser. If another company was to sell this tt I believe the price would be a lot more.