Ah, Edle, you were doing so well, and then you blew it:
If not, you don't know what you are talking about?
This comment is hardly constructive, and it certainly suggests that it is YOU who doesn't know what you're talking about.
I live with an air bearing platter turntable (Walker Proscenium), and I find the VPI turntables to be very quiet and capable of creating a "very black" noise background. Overall, they are excellent turntables. Have you ever listened to one; it certainly sounds like you have not and that you're operating totally from a theoretical perspective, and a not very well informed one at that.
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