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Ketchup-Think about what you've said: " I would never considering buying something sight unseen (even if I did hear it)".

Now, presumably, if you'd "never consider buying something sight unseen", you'd be in a position to see "what's under the hood" of this tt by simpley lifting the platter. And I'm curious how you'd be able to "hear it", without actually seeing it.

Since the vast majority of new TTs are belt drive, there's little to see 'under the hood'. And even when there *is* (say, the guts of a speed control), I don't know of any manufacturers who give us a 'look' at the circuit diagrams, or even a photo of the PCBs, in their advertising.

As for your contention that "I don't think anybody is going to reverse engineer your TT from pictures"-that's almost laughably naive.