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In Reply to: Thorens pic of the day posted by user510 on September 12, 2006 at 13:49:50:
Maybe this will bring vinyl to the ganster rap crowd....
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Hmmm, now that you mention it, it's got the looks for it.But it's a belt drive, no good for back-scratching. After breaking off a few vdH cantilevers, yer average self respecting DJ would likely toss this thing out into the garage too.
-Steve
Then contract for additional entertainment!I am fond of my Thorens table. If I had more room I would love to keep it. My idlers have slightly better vocals and piano sound more realistic.
Bass slam and prat go the the idler big time, but it is noisy in the background compared to the Thorens.
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.
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