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Dan_ed,
It's hard to believe it until you hear it. Heck, it's hard to believe it after you hear it, I'm still in rapturous shock nearly every time I spin a record. If my 265 turns into a 60 lb. potato chip in ten years, they'll be the best musical ten years I've ever known. Hey, I'm slowly turning into a 60 lb. potato chip myself, might as well enjoy some tunes along the way. :)

Jyprez,
I'm in Connecticut so I know what you mean about the weather. AC in the summer, humidifier in the winter, de-himidifier in the basement all the year round. The land of steady habits is also the land of a most unsteady climate.

There is lots of information on the internet on the dimensional stability of wood. Here is one quote from http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn06/wn06-2/wn06-201.html

"There is no known coating which adheres to wood and is also completely impervious to water vapor. Even the most effective coating will permit the eventual equilibration of a coated wood object to the relative humidity and temperature conditions of its surroundings."

So don't take my word for it. Buyer beware! I don't doubt that wood will sound good at least initially. But you won't have a stable platform and that is trouble. Boats, on the other hand, are made to swell with the absorbtion of water. This is taken into account in their design. The swelling of the joints is what makes them tight. I used to have a wooded lapstrake boat (this is where the hull is made up of overlapping boards rather than one sheet of material) It would leak like heck when first put in the water at the beginning of the season but then tighten right up after a few days.

Please, with all due respect, this is not a boat. In normal temperature and humidity environments that would be encountered in a high end audio home, this is not a problem.

Look, electronic circuits don't last long in salt water immersion tests either. I think we have to be at least semi-realistic about what we are discussing here.

Great care went into the design and manufacture of this turntable. Long term stability was one of the concerns, and it was dealt with in the best way possible. Given a normal environment, this will be quite stable.

I certainly wouldn't recommend this turntable for outdoor patio use in the tropical rain forests of Brazil. For temperature and humidity controlled indoor living room use, this will do just fine.

I'm sing-in' in the rain,
Just sing-in' in the rain...

Should we start a rumor that Teres is getting into the yacht business?

Seriously, Doug I would love to hear one sometime. Any Teres, that is.