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also #2, but...

Posted by rindolini (A) on April 23, 2017 at 02:33:20

In Reply to: WTF ???? posted by reelsmith. on April 21, 2017 at 16:31:14:

I'd also prefer the visual appearance of the Yamaha, no doubt. I wouldn't really have enough space for that either, though - so I'd pick neither of these two.

Some comments, though: First, #1 was intended as a design study only. And then, while I'll freely admit, that I also find it rather ugly, I still have quite a bit of respect for Rainer's creation (as well as for Rainer himself, as he's a nice and polite guy...), 'cause unlike many other high-end turntables, which often enough merely represent what we over here would call a Materialschlacht (battle of material), Rainer's approach combines that kind of mechanical overengineering with quite a bit of high-tech electronics. So in my view it would really deserve the label "high end" today, while many other current high-end designs appear rather lame to me due to being not exactly innovative.

But in that context I'd have to add that I'd also regard for example a Braun PS550, a Philips AF977 or a Technics SL-10 as more innovative than quite a few current high-end designs. Although it's even more of a pity that there's so little smart use of electronics in the more affordable price ranges today, in which the budget for mechanical overkill is way more limited (even more so, as mechanics nowadays are more costly than electronics).

I mean, heck, Philips already demonstrated with their DirectControl family, that it is possible to offer affordable belt-drive models that deliver very low wow & flutter with a ridiculously light platter in combination with a smart speed control with actual platter-speed sensing, back in 1978. Fast forward not quite 40 years - what do we get now? Comparatively spartanic belt-drive designs with hardly any comfort functions, let alone speed controls with actual platter-speed sensing. Even convenient speed-switching often enough has become an optional extra... *sigh*

Greetings from Munich!

Manfred / lini

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