In Reply to: RE: Turntables posted by tesla on September 3, 2014 at 05:57:03:
Today we have better theory, better test equipment and better means of production than anything they had in the 1970s. When it comes to electronics, the best of the best today can't be touched by vintage anything. Even average can be pretty darn good. OTOH, the bottom is as bad as it ever was.
The same is true for mechanics, so far as analysis and design capabilities, but the economics are a disaster. It costs so much to make precision mechanical parts that the high volume makers in the '70s could easily compete with most of what you can get today. We're capable of better, but you have to pay a lot more to get it. I wonder what a classic Thorens or Empire would cost to build today?
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