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Thank you for your response Duke. Have just had a look at the Sound Labs website. They look fabulous, for sure. Couldn't seem to find...

Like many things in life, and especially in Audio - the scale of improvements is not linear, but exponential (or inverse exponential)...

So let's be careful about our terms. We are talking about counterfeiting - passing something off as something else - in other words...

Copy or counterfeit is not the same thing. Copying expired previously patented or previously protected stuff is normal . Example...

Copy or counterfeit is not the same thing. Copying expired previously patented or previously protected stuff is normal . Example...

Also the chinese are about to get into the game more seriously... Tonewinner has announced the AT600, with Dirac (no mention of which...

Yup that's what I meant. The whole idea of copying and using the brand was abyssmal.

Well, you just don't hear much about Yamaha and Sony (and others) here at ASR... But they are still out there, with a decent range of AVR's

Yes. Manufactured in the U.S. and even the software engineering is U.S. based. I had the HTP-1 and upgraded to the Trinnov Altitude...

The abyssmal thing is "passing off as genuine" - a "copy" worth its salt, will often outperform the original... and definitely should...

Which would not be a bad thing at all (sounding socialist)

Half the problem is the long term leveraging of IP laws and associated lawfare, by larger corporations. This allows them to maintain...

Many linear trackers, are basically short pivoted arms, on a servo powered track, so the lateral sensing is based on the pivoted arm...

That looks good! 70K Euro though.

Some current high end linear tracking arms: https://clearaudio.de/en/products/tonearms-tt5.php...