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In Reply to: I sure would like to hear it in my listening room.... posted by tubesforever on September 13, 2006 at 11:37:23:
Me too. Hear it in my listening room, that is. When it comes to comparisons between idlers, dd and bd I wonder if all bets might be off with this model. A suspended belt drive design with a -massive- floating chassis and a massive platter to match.The Reference was a r&d exercise on the part of Thorens to produce the best sounding turntable that they could based upon everything they had learned up to that point....
( Even though the company was mass producing belt drive models at the time, Thorens was a company that knew something about idler drives.)
In spite of it being done as a research project, the company did offer these to the public in a limited edition of 100 numbered examples. Going price was around $10,000.00 (late seventies US Dollars). You put your money down with a Thorens dealer, chose color and then waited for the chaps back in Lahr to hand-build one of these monsters-- just for you.
So far I've seen photos of these in green, charcoal and white. Foggy memory but maybe I saw a photo of a blue one, somewhere. Based on what they learned producing the Reference, Thorens went on to produce the Prestige, which became the flagship of their line until the last days.
-Steve
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