More Turntable Lust!
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Here's a German made table offered
by Misica Nova. Can't read a darn thing about it, though it surely looks yummy and i
believe it is called the Piano das Laufwerk. According to their literature, or what
i can make sense of, this is their lowest line offering as their top of the line units
photo is just too large for me to scan :-{(+ . Looks like some serious table
spinnin' is happening in Germany! Of course like most things German, they also love
their chrome too. Now if i just had a good Porsche'...
Musica Nova Vogel GmbH
Sulzbacher Straße 105
90489 Nürnburg
Germany
voice 09 11-533-291
fax 09 11-533-420
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07 / 23 / 98
Well, it's been a long
time since my last Turntable Lust update so here are three all new German yummies for
you. Can't read the product literature at all since my German leaves much to be
desired. Ok, i admit it, i can't speak, read, or understand German so my humble
apologies for not being able to offer much information about the above turntable.
Hopefully the manufacturer will see them here and send me an e-mail
to
me in English briefly describing each table/arm combo.
These units are made by JR Trans Rotor. They actually offer more
turntables then those shown here! Seems like the turntable business must be doing
great in Germany. If they are anything like the Porsche and other things German, i
betcha they are highly precision, well made, precision hand-built units. The table on the
left is called the Super Seven and will set ya back DM 2500. The middle table is the
Eternita at DM 22000 and the table on the far right costs DM 6800. As i look through
their catalog it all seems very impressive. For more information please feel free to
contact them at:
JR Trans Rotor
Rake HiFi / Vertrieb GMBH
Irlenfelder WEG 43
D-51467 Berg. Gladbach
voice 02202 / 31046
fax 02202 / 36844
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Above is a killer cool 3D rendering
of the VPI TNT turntable done by Jon Gale. This cool dude does lottsa 3D rendering
of audio gear as well as rooms. He's got more stuff on his killer web site. Hey,
why not check it out while you're surfin' the 'net.
Click here
to see Jon Gale's web site.
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Micro Seiki... Many folks i know
love their tables and i can see why! In it's ultimate form, the RX-1500FVG as shown here
uses an air bearing that floats the heavy platter .03mm over the base for ease of platter
rotation without mechanical friction in the direction of thrust. A vacuum suction system
secures the vinyl record to the platter while the quadruplex suspension system uses coil
springs, rubber diaphragm pistons, compressed air, and high viscosity oil to reduce any
acoustic feedback from reaching the delicate tracking of the needle. Shown here, by the
way, with two tonearms which are not included.
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Since 1979, Oracle Audio Technologies has been famous for their
hand-crafted Delphi turntables. Well, here's the newest MK-V version. Each suspension tower uses no less then twelve different components while the massive eight pound platter keeps the vinyl nice and flat with the aid of the new center clamp. The new bearing replaces the traditional two bushing system with six nylon precision surfaced setscrews.
The new Turbo Power Supply has been redesigned to achieve very high performance! Oracle continues to be the
"Fine Art of Playing Music."
Oracle Audio Technologies
6136 Boulevard Bertrand Fabi
Suite 101
Sherbrooke, Quebec J1N 2P3
Canada
voice 819-864-0480
fax 819-864-9641
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Ya know, one of my close friends
uses this turntable and he has the most awesome music collection i've ever seen (hi
Douglas!). What you see above in the VPI TNT turntable that is used by a few reviewer
friends of mine too. Oh heck, let's forget the description and just enjoy the larger,
tastier picture. After all, there's just not enough room here to suffice a really good
description in my humble opinion.
VPI Industries, Inc.
77 Cliffwood Avenue #3B
Cliffwood, NJ 07721
voice (908) 946-8606
fax (908) 946-8578
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Here's the famous VPI JMW Memorial
tonearm. Many years of research and development has been used to make this a fave with a
few friends of mine. This tonearm was named after Sheila and Harry Weisfeld's son,
Jonathan, who passed away in 1995. The VTA can be adjusted in .00035" graduations!
They claim no antiskate is needed due to the low offset angle of the headshell and the
needed antiskate is provided for by the tension of the leadout wires.
VPI Industries, Inc.
77 Cliffwood Avenue #3B
Cliffwood, NJ 07721
voice (908) 946-8606
fax (908) 946-8578
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The Rockport Technologies
System III Sirius is a fully implemented separate turntable, stand, motor control, and
power supply (please see larger, tastier picture). Via the push button control below the
turntable you can control the speed. A linear tracking arm is shown here which is
precision designed to give what they feel is the ultimate of music reproduction qualities.
The power supply to this unit (bottom part of the larger photo) is big, bad, and oh so
good. Kinda reminds me of the Goldmund Reference turntable in some respects.
Rockport Technologies
229 Mills Street
Rockport, ME. 04856
voice (207) 596-7151
fax (207) 596-0928
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The Wilson Benesch Circle
turntable is a low mass design (unlike the Walker below). They seem to love uni
directional carbon fibre and like the Walker use very high precision parts. Shown here
without the platter it truly looks like a work of art! Shown here with the Wilson Benesch
ACT 0.5 tonearm shown is a beautiful sight.
Wilson Benesch Ltd.
Falcon House
Limestone Cottage Lane
Sheffield S61NJ
England
voice +44 (0) 1142 852656
fax +44 (0) 1142 852657
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here to see their www site.
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Here's the Walker Audio
Proscenium Gold Signature Turntable. Featuring a cast from marble and lead base/table
supported by a six piece Valid Points Resonance Control System. An air bearing platter is
ten inches in diameter with three air jets. The platter itself weighs in at 70 lbs (the
entire system is about 245 lbs.!). This turntable includes the tonearm which has a 45psi
air bearing containing eight air jets. There's more, yet the larger, tastier pictures
shows you whole system. Hey, why not take a look and see for yourself?
Walker Audio
1139 Thrush Lane
Audubon, PA 19403
voice (601) 666-6087
fax (610) 666-5-57
http://www.walkeraudio.com
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One of the most beautiful
tables now available, in my humble opinion, is the Clearaudio Reference Table with the
Souther TQ-I tangential tracking tonearm. The use of geometrical shapes helps dampen the
vibration which could detrimentally effect the music it reproduces. The nice round platter
starts it's life as a solid block of acrylic and is precisely shaped into what you see
above. An inverted bearing is used while the tonearm uses a short titanium tube.
Clearaudio (distributed by Discover Cable in the
USA)
20962 6th Avenue West
Cudjoe Key, FL 33042
voice (305) 744-9903
fax (305) 644-9961
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Like Little Red
Ridinghood said "My, what a long tonearm you have." The better to play 20"
transcription discs my dear. The Simon Yorke Designs dual tonearm turntable can play
records upwards of 20" in diameter. It features the 9" and the 12" unipivit
tonearms too! This is a professional archive turntable designed and hand-crafted for the
Federal Government of the United States of America and used the the National Library of
Congress in Washington D.C.
Simon Yorke Designs
11 West View
East Hedley Hope, Bishop Auckland
Co. Durham, England
DL13 4PT
voice +44 (0) 1207 580394
fax +44 (0) 1207 580399
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