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But it's a very special rubber band. And expensive. You can bet on that. If you have a Chiron parked in your garage, shuttle between your offices in a Bell 429, and pour Lafite Rolthschild as your everyday table wine, then spending 500 large on a record player is nothing for your checkbook. I'm not even going to say that it's not the best record player in the world. Could be. But even if it is, what do you have? Kind of like owning a hand made diamond studded top cow quality full grain leather buggy whip for your carriage. Certainly nice to have. And arguably the best, I guess.A turntable that costs 500k. How do they transfer torque from the motor to the platter: via rubber band of course!
FWIW: below are some figures from HiFi News on 3 record players--pounds converted to dollars:
Technics SL-1000R (the new SP-10 system $24,560.00)........time to reach speed <1 sec...... w/f 0.01......rumble -74.9;
Air Force III (low end Air Force product $36,000.00).............time to reach speed <8 sec...... w/f 0.02......rumble -70.8
Dual CS 600 (new product from old name $1,798.00).........time to reach speed <4 sec...... w/f 0.04......rumble -71.4.
Obviously you are not paying for conventional specs. For those of us on the low end, I am happy to report that the Dual 'sounded' pretty good according to the reviewer. Not the best, but OK. It had sufficient 'slam'; I didn't find a measurement for slam, so it's hard to say exactly how much slam it had.
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